Medium bronze

The transition from ancient Bronze to Middle Bronze (1600-1300 BC) marks the real beginning of the cultural phase that we call Nuragic civilization.
The transition from ancient Bronze to Middle Bronze (1600-1300 BC) marks the real beginning of the cultural phase that we call Nuragic civilization.

Its symbolic monument is the nuraghe, a tower building, in large stones, more or less regularly worked, inside which we find one or more superimposed chambers characterized by a 'false dome' or 'tholos' roof.

It comes in both a single-tower version and in planimetrically complex versions in which surrounding towers are added to a central tower connected to each other by wall curtains. To these complex structures, called 'bastions', are then added additional walls, also turreted, called 'antewalls'.

Around numerous nuraghes, villages of stone huts covered in branches or stone slabs are then built, sometimes organized as federal sanctuaries.

There are also other types of buildings: protonuraghi or pseudonuraghi or corridor nuraghi, tombs of giants, temple structures.

Protonurages are buildings that differ significantly from classic nuraghes: with a stockier appearance and a generally irregular layout, inside them they do not house the large circular chamber typical of the nuraghe, but one or more corridors and a few rare cells covered in a false vault.

The tombs of giants, used for collective burials, are characterized by a floor plan in the shape of a bull's head. There are two main types: the one with an orthostated chamber and exedra, as in the case of Li Lolghi (Arzachena), and the one with a chamber and exedra in masonry in rows, such as the tomb of Domu 'e s'Orku (Siddi).

Nuragic temples are divided into three categories: the “well temples” (hypogeic structures with a tholos roof reserved for the cult of water), the “sacred springs” (which performed a similar function but fished the aquifer directly at the level of the decking); the “megaron-shaped” temples (which derive their name from the structural similarity with the Greek “megaron”).

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20/9/2023 - 10:48