Middle Eneolithic

Goni, Allineamento di Menhir di Pranu Muttedu. Foto di Luca Doro, 2016, da Catalogo Beni Culturali RAS

The cultures of Filigosa and Abealzu belong to this phase (2,600-2,400 BC). The ceramic artifacts pertaining to these cultures come almost exclusively from funerary contexts and consist of vases with typical shapes.
The culture of Filigosa takes its name from tomb I of the homonymous site in the territory of Macomer. Typical of this culture are vases, generally small in size, not decorated or decorated with impression or engraving; loom weights; fusaiole; obsidian arrowheads; clay necklaces; bone and shell; copper and silver objects.
The culture of Abealzu (slightly later) takes its name from the homonymous necropolis in the territory of Osilo.
Typical of this culture are the fiasco vases decorated with breast shapes, which find comparisons with various objects from the peninsular area and the Franco-Swiss area.
Also of great importance are the anthropomorphic menhirs and menhir statues, found in Goni and in the Sarcidano-Mandrolisai. Menhir statues are often defined as “armed” due to the presence of a double-bladed dagger, interpreted as a symbol of power, and of a figure in the upper part of the statue, called “upside down” and interpreted as a funerary symbol.
The attribution to the Middle Eolithic period (perhaps pertaining to the culture of Filigosa) of the statuettes of “mother goddess” of the so-called “openwork” type seems certain.
The altar of Monte d'Accoddi (Sassari) must also be traced back to this chronological and cultural moment. It is a truncated pyramidal platform on which a chapel with an access ramp was built. The shape of this extraordinary monument evokes the Mesopotamian 'ziqqurat'.

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16/7/2025 - 15:43