Biniac Naveta (East)

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Biniac Naveta (East) Naveta de Biniac Oriental
View of the Naveta from the south

View of the Naveta from the south
Biniac Naveta (East) (Balearic Islands)
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Location in Menorca
Coordinates 39 ° 54 '54 "  N , 4 ° 10' 42.7"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 54 '54 "  N , 4 ° 10' 42.7"  E
place Alaior , Menorca , Balearic Islands , Spain
Emergence 1400 to 1000 BC Chr.
Dimensions 11 m
height 110  m

The eastern Naveta of Biniac ( Catalan Naveta de Biniac Oriental ) is a prehistoric tomb in the municipality of Alaior on the Balearic island of Menorca .

location

The building stands on the eastern edge of the village of l'Argentina. It can be reached via the island's main road Me-1, which you leave after 8.1 kilometers from Maó to reach the car park of the Lloc de Menorca zoo . To see the Naveta up close, you have to purchase a ticket to the zoo. There are nine other navetas within a radius of five kilometers, of which the one from Rafal Rubí and the western naveta from Biniac are easy to reach and are well worth a visit due to their good state of preservation.

description

Navetas are megalithic tombs that were used for collective burial . They are typical buildings of the Bronze Age and only occur in Menorca. It was named after the fact that its shape is often reminiscent of the hull of an overturned ship ( Nau in Catalan ). The eastern naveta of Biniac has an almost circular plan and a hemispherical shape. Its outer wall is made of large stones without the use of mortar, partly pseudo-isodomic , partly unevenly cyclopean . The south-facing front consists of smaller stones and is obviously more recent. The entrance leads to a narrow corridor over three meters long, at the end of which you enter the chamber through an opening with a lintel. This distinguishes the Naveta from most others, the interior of which is entered through the rectangular opening in a large stone slab. The roof of the chamber consists of four large stone slabs, the ends of which rest on the Cyclops wall. The end of the interior is formed by a single large stone. In contrast to other navetas, there is no second floor.

  • Views of the Naveta

  • View from the west

  • View from the north

  • View from the east

  • View of the interior

  • Naveta floor plan

Excavation history

The Naveta was discovered in 1901 by Francesc Hernández i Sanz . Maria Lluïsa Serra (1911-1967) searched in vain for a possible upper chamber in the 1960s. Since the naveta was used as a shelter for livestock for centuries, no bones or grave goods could be found inside .

Monument protection

The Naveta is now registered with the Spanish Ministry of Culture under the number RI-51-0003121 as an archaeological monument (Monument arqueològic) . It is one of the 32 archaeological sites that Spain officially proposed for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List on January 14, 2016 as " Talayotic Culture of Menorca " . The World Heritage Committee postponed the application at its 41st meeting in July 2017 and requested improvements.

Dimensions

Source: Gornés (2016)

  • External length: 11.50 m
  • Width outside: 10.90 m
  • Height outside: approx. 4 m
  • Total area: 93.84 m²
  • Length of the corridor: 3.10 m
  • Width of the corridor: 0.80 m
  • Corridor height: 1.10 m
  • Corridor area: 2.85 m²
  • Chamber length: 4.20 m
  • Width of the chamber: 2.30 m
  • Average height of the chamber: 2.30 m
  • Chamber surface: 8.44 m²

See also

literature

  • Antoni Nicolau Martí, Elena Sintes Olives, Ricard Pla Boada, Albert Àlvarez Marsal: Talayotic Minorca . The prehistory of the island. Triangle Books, Sant Lluís 2015, ISBN 978-84-8478-640-5 , pp. 196-199 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martí et al .: Talayotic Minorca , 2015, p. 197.
  2. ↑ a b c d Martí et al .: Talayotic Minorca , 2015, p. 198.
  3. ↑ a b José Simón Gornés Hachero: Sociedad y cambio en Menorca: sistematización de los Contexts arqueológicos de las navetas funerarias entre el 1400 y el 850 CAL ANE . Dissertation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016, ISBN 978-84-490-6612-2 , p. 64 f. ( Full text online PDF, 1063 pages in 4 files, Spanish).
  4. ↑ Cultural heritage database at the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (note: search for "Biniac (la Argentina) oriental"), accessed on December 30, 2016
  5. ↑ Talayotic Culture of Minorca , on the Spanish tentative list at UNESCO (English), accessed on October 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ World Heritage Committee (Ed.): List of nominations received by February 1, 2016 and for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 41st session (2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 427 kB ]).
  7. ↑ World Heritage Committee (Ed.): Decisions adopted during the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee (Krakow, 2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).
  8. ↑ José Simón Gornés Hachero: Sociedad y cambio en Menorca: sistematización de los contextos arqueológicos de las navetas funerarias entre el 1400 y el 850 CAL ANE , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ​​Dissertation, 2016, Appendix 1 (PDF; 13.0 MB), P. 234 (Spanish).

Web links

Commons : Naveta de Biniac Oriental  - Collection of images, videos and audio files