Menhirs in Sardinia

The 5.75 m high Corru Tundu is the largest menhir in Sardinia

Perdas Longas di Guspini

Luxia Arrabiosa in Villaperuccio

Menhirs in Sardinia are usually made of basalt or granite and are between less than 1.0 m and 6.5 m high. Sardinian menhirs are seldom more than a man's height and from phallic to pointed conical shape. In Sardinian they are called perdas fittas or perdas ficchidas .

Dating

The erection and design of the menhirs is primarily dated to the Neolithic Bono-Ighinu , Ozieri , Abealzu-Filigosa and Monte Claro cultures .

distribution

Salvatore Merella estimates that there are around 750 menhirs in Sardinia, 850 if the statue menhirs are included. Menhirs are mainly found in the Barbagia and Marmilla regions , in the triangle between Isili , Laconi and Nurallao . Around 50 statue menhirs made of trachyte or limestone have been discovered near Laconi and Biru e 'Concas on the Sarcidano .

Significant locations:

Baracca Su Entu, 25 menhirs in Feraxi near Muravera (CA)
Biru e 'Concas , row of stones and about 200 menhirs near Sorgono (NU)
Castrulongu, menhirs di “Fiola” and di “Dorthenì” near Gavoi (NU)
Corte Noa , stone row near Laconi (OR)
Cuili Piras ; 53 menhirs near Muravera (CA)
Curru Tundu at Villa Sant'Antonio (OR)
42 Menhirs from Is Calas on the Costa Rei in the megalithic complex on the Protonuraghe Scalas
Is Cirquittus, menhirs, stone circle and row of stones near Nureci (OR)
Luxia Arrabiosa near Villaperuccio (SD)
Monte Baranta near Olmedo (SS)
Monte d'Accoddi near Porto Torres (SS)
Pranu Muteddu , near Goni (CA)
Stone row of 22 menhirs near Piscina Rei (CA)
Sa Perda ´e Taleri, southeast of Noragugume (NU) about 4.0 m high
Sa Perda ´es´Itria, menhir near Gavoi (NU)
Sa Perda Pinta , the only intact Sardinian stone with cup-and-ring markings near Mamoiada (NU)
San Michele Urrui , near Fonni (NU)
Su Para e sa Mongia , Sant'Antioco (CI)

literature

Salvatore Merella: I menhir della Sardegna . ( online )

Web links

Sorgono - Menhir di Biru e'Concas ( Memento from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Nuraghe Lò - Sorgono ( Memento of April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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Individual evidence

^ Ruth Whitehouse: Megaliths of Central Mediterranean . In: John D. Evans, Barry Cunliffe, Colin Renfrew (Eds.), Antiquity and Man, essays in honor of Glyn Daniel , Thames and Hudson, London 1981, 287, ISBN 0-500-05040-6
↑ Salvatore Merella, I menhir ei massi istoriati della Sardegna. Preistoria Alpina 46/2, 2012, pp. 295-296, ISSN 0393-0157
↑ Salvatore Merella, I menhir della Sardegna (PhD Rome). Sassari 2009, 8
↑ Salvatore Merella, I menhir ei massi istoriati della Sardegna. Preistoria Alpina 46/2, 2012, p. 295, ISSN 0393-0157
↑ Florian Soula, Les pierres dressées de l'aire corso-sarde. Evolution of the corpus et des questionnements. Nouveaux results and perspectives. PhD thesis Université de Provence, 2012, 149.

[1] Ruth Whitehouse: Megaliths of Central Mediterranean . In: John D. Evans, Barry Cunliffe, Colin Renfrew (Eds.), Antiquity and Man, essays in honor of Glyn Daniel , Thames and Hudson, London 1981, 287, ISBN 0-500-05040-6

[2] Salvatore Merella, I menhir ei massi istoriati della Sardegna. Preistoria Alpina 46/2, 2012, pp. 295-296, ISSN 0393-0157

[3] Salvatore Merella, I menhir della Sardegna (PhD Rome). Sassari 2009, 8

[4] Salvatore Merella, I menhir ei massi istoriati della Sardegna. Preistoria Alpina 46/2, 2012, p. 295, ISSN 0393-0157

[5] Florian Soula, Les pierres dressées de l'aire corso-sarde. Evolution of the corpus et des questionnements. Nouveaux results and perspectives. PhD thesis Université de Provence, 2012, 149.