Corte Noa
Corte Noa is a prehistoric site. It is located in a small depression not far from Laconi in Sarcidano , in the east of the Oristano province in Sardinia .
On the east side of a depression, partly proto-anthropomorphic menhirs that have been left in place form a north-facing row . Five are standing, two are on the floor. The seven monoliths are between 1.25 and 2.23 meters high, worked but not figured. They have a slim profile with a flat front and a convex back. Six of them are arranged on an axis; the seventh has been moved, perhaps because of the agricultural activities. Sporadic fragments of obsidian are picked up on the surface . The “male” and “female” statue menhirs of this square were taken to the Laconi Museum.
At the northern end of the ridge rising east of the menhirs (about 300 m away) sits the Allée couverte of Corte Noa, a nine-meter-long gallery grave with an anteroom and an access opening to the two-meter-wide chamber, deprived of cap stones. The megalithic complex was excavated by Enrico Atzeni in 1982 .
In addition to skeletal remains, grave goods from the transition period from the Ozieri culture to the Abealzu-Filigosa cultures were found , including a piece of lead and silver rings from the first half of the third millennium BC. Another grave of this type is Masone Perdu , located to the northwest.
Despite the clear connection between statue menhirs and the cult of the dead, in Sardinia (unlike in Corsica) it has so far not been possible to establish a connection to certain types of graves. Grave types and types of burial are unsuitable in Sardinia as distinguishing features of the individual cultures. None of the four Sardinian Copper Age cultures shows a preference for certain burial sites, be it natural caves, dolmens , gallery graves, stone boxes or domus de Janas .
See also
literature
- Rainer Pauli: Sardinia. History culture landscape. Voyages of discovery on one of the most beautiful islands in the Mediterranean . 7th edition. DuMont, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1368-3 , ( DuMont documents. DuMont art travel guide ), p. 341.
Web links
- Description Italian + pictures
- Image of the row of stones
- Description Engl. + Pictures
- Description Italian + image
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 39 ° 53 ′ 32 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 16 ″ E