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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 underground necropolis of Corona Moltana is located, where the first discovery of typical finds took place.
This culture, considered by scholars to be the first phase of the Nuragic civilization, shows a significant change in ceramic production, as 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 related to sites where the presence of Bonnanaro materials does not appear exclusive, but rather is to be interpreted as evidence of a practice of re-visiting pre-existing sites that seems typical of that culture.
For this reason, the remarkable documentary value of the only residential site certainly attributable exclusively to the culture of Bonnanaro deserves to be emphasized: it is a group of huts built with small walls on which wooden structures are superimposed with a roof function, located in Sa Turrìcula di Muros (Sassari).
As far as funerary rituals are concerned, people of the Bonnanaro culture must ascribe both the practice of reusing the domus de janas created and used in previous chronological phases, and the creation of monumental tomb structures, such as the allées couvertes, the megalithic corridors that, in their architectural development, will lead to the birth of the giants' tombs, of which in some cases they even represent the structural nucleus of origin.
Finally, the medical practice of drilling the skull while alive with the survival of the subject undergoing the operation, attested by bone recalcification, deserves a report. 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 pan, a granite grinder and traces of burned wood.
Una nuova sepoltura della Cultura di Bonnanaro da Ittiri (prov. di Sassari, Sardegna) ed i rapporti fra la Sardegna settentrionale e la Corsica nell'antica età del Bronzo / Paolo Melis.
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Una nuova sepoltura della Cultura di Bonnanaro da Ittiri (prov. di Sassari, Sardegna) ed i rapporti fra la Sardegna settentrionale e la Corsica nell'antica età del Bronzo / Paolo Melis.
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