Antique bronze

On the threshold of entry to the Nuragic civilization, framed in ancient Bronze (1800-1600 BC), is the culture called Bonnanaro after the name of the town, in Logudoro, where the hypogeic necropolis of Corona Moltana is located, where the first discovery of typical finds took place.
On the threshold of entry to the Nuragic civilization, framed in ancient Bronze (1800-1600 BC), is the culture called Bonnanaro after the name of the town, in Logudoro, where the hypogeic necropolis of Corona Moltana is located, where the first discovery of typical finds took place.

This culture, considered by scholars as the first phase of Nuragic civilization, shows a significant change in ceramic production, since the persistence of many of the vascular morphologies peculiar to the bell-shaped culture is associated with the disappearance of the overabundant decoration that had characterized bell-shaped productions.

Current knowledge regarding living spaces relevant to the culture of Bonnanaro is rather scarce and almost always relates to sites where the presence of Bonnanaro materials does not appear exclusive, but rather is to be interpreted as evidence of a practice of revisiting pre-existing sites that appears typical of this culture.

For this reason, the remarkable documentary value of the only residential site certainly attributable exclusively to the culture of Bonnanaro deserves to be highlighted: it is a group of huts built with walls overlapped by wooden structures with a roofing function, located in Sa Turrìcula di Muros (Sassari).

As far as funerary rituals are concerned, the people of Bonnanaro culture must ascribe both to the practice of reusing the domus de janas created and used in the previous chronological phases, and to the construction of monumental tomb structures, such as the allées couvertes, the megalithic corridors that, in their architectural development, will lead to the birth of the tombs of the giants, of which in some cases they even come to represent the structural core of their origin.

Finally, the medical practice of transplanation of the skull during the waist with the survival of the subject undergoing the operation, attested by bone recalcification, deserves a mention. Evidence of this are the remains of a woman buried in the natural cave of Sisaia (Oliena), in association with a poor set consisting of a bowl, a pot, a granite grinder and traces of burned wood.

Update

20/9/2023 - 10:47