Dolmen in Sardinia

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Sarbogadas dolmen

The archaeologists have 221 Dolmen in Sardinia in Italy demonstrated about 100 have survived. Most of the dolmens are located in the northern part of the island. Typologically, they belong to five main categories:

  • the simple guy
  • the type "corridor",
  • the type "side entrance",
  • the "mixed type" (partly in the rock and partly from orthostats)
  • the gallery graves.

The majority belong to the simple dolmen type, followed by the gallery graves , while only a few structures of other types have survived. There are no radiocarbon dates. The data come from stratigraphic surveys and the archaeological materials found in some dolmens. They show structural and cultural relationships between the Sardinian dolmens and other prehistoric monuments on the island. Typological comparisons with similar dolmens in other Mediterranean areas suggest that the dolmens of Sardinia belong to the Neolithic to the end Neolithic (from the end of the 4th to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC), with a certain degree of reuse in the Bronze Age . Recent research has revealed structural and cultural relationships between Sardinia and Spain, France, especially Corsica.

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literature

  • Riccardo Cicilloni: I dolmen della Sardegna. PTM, Mogoro 2009, ISBN 978-88-87393-63-7 .
  • Marco Puddu: La Sardegna dei megaliti. Megalitismo, with e simboli nell'area del Mediterraneo. IRIS, Oliene [2005], ISBN 88-89187-08-5 .
  • Duncan Mackenzie (author), Lycia Mura (translator), Roberto Manca (editor): I dolmen, le tombe di giganti ei nuraghi della Sardegna (= Archèos, volume 3). Condaghes, Cagliari 2012, ISBN 978-88-7356-213-9 (bilingual edition by: Duncan Mackenzie: The Dolmens, tombs of the giants, and nuraghi of Sardinia , Macmillan, London 1910)
  • G. Manca: Misteriosi piccoli dolmen. In: Sardegna Antica. Volume 17, 2000.

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