Nuragic (1,800-238 BC)

The transition from the Eneolithic to the Bronze Age represents a crucial moment in Sardinian history. In fact, from previous cultures we move on to the Nuragic civilization and the terminological change “culture/civilization” already intends to express the profound nature of this change.

The Nuragic civilization owes its name to the term used in Sardinian to call the monument considered most representative of this civilization, the “nuraghe” in fact.
It is a tower building, built with the use of large stones (used raw or more or less regularly processed), inside which there are one or more overlapping rooms characterized by the typical roof called a “false dome” or “tholos”.

It comes both in the single-tower version and in the complex version, with a central tower and others in the surrounding area. Villages of stone huts are then built around numerous nuraghes.

There are also other types of buildings: the 'protonuraghi' (also known as' pseudonuraghi 'or 'corridor nuraghi'), the 'tombs of giants', the 'temples with a well' and the 'sacred founts', the little temples shaped like 'megaron'.

Archaeological data make it possible to affirm that the Nuragic civilization was based on an agro-pastoral economy, but it also practiced a significant exploitation of mineral resources (in particular copper and lead).

From a social point of view, the Nuragic civilization seems to have been characterized by a highly hierarchical structure, whose summit had to be occupied by warriors, but also by characters linked to cultural practices, in particular to the cult of water that had to be practiced in

well temples.

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17/10/2023 - 18:55