Son Real necropolis
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Location in Mallorca |
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 45 '17.8 " N , 3 ° 10' 55.7" E | ||
| place | Santa Margalida , Balearic Islands , Spain | ||
| Emergence | 650 to 300 BC Chr. | ||
| height | 1 m | ||
The necropolis of Son Real ( Mallorcan Necròpolis de Son Real , also Necròpoli de la punta Fenicis ) is a prehistoric , largely above- ground burial ground on the north coast of the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca . Little is known about the culture of the builders due to the lack of written records. It is the largest " city of the dead " found and uncovered on the Balearic Islands.
location
The necropolis of Son Real is located in the Mallorcan municipality of Santa Margalida on the small headland Punta des Fenicis , the "tip of the Phoenicians ", directly on the Badia d'Alcúdia ("Bay of Alcúdia"). The coastal area of Son Real in the north of the island, where the tombs are located, is named after a 395 hectare estate, the main building of which is on the road (MA-12) from Alcúdia to Artà . Apart from the buildings of the estate, this coastal strip between the towns of Can Picafort in the west and the eastern Son Serra de Marina is undeveloped. A large part of the area of Son Real consists of pine forest , which excludes the often rocky flat coast, so that the historical graves located there are not covered by tree growth.
description
The 800 square meter necropolis dates from the 7th to 4th centuries BC. BC , but was also used later as a burial place. Archaeological excavations on the site began after the discovery in 1957, commissioned and funded by the William L. Bryant Foundation, and were completed by 1970. The megalithic construction of the 109 preserved tombs partly resembles ship-shaped or horseshoe-shaped naviformes , while others resemble the round and square towers of the late Talaiot culture of that time (Talaiot III and IV). The round grave structures are from the end of the 7th century BC. BC, the horseshoe-shaped buildings from the 5th and the rectangular buildings from the 4th century BC. Assigned. Part of the necropolis was probably destroyed by sea erosion.
Weapons, jewelry and everyday objects were added to the more than 300 found dead. Animal bones and shells were also found in the graves. The buildings, which are mostly oriented to the southeast, often have two niches each, in which the corpses were placed in fetal position . From the 4th century BC Cremation was also practiced. Near the necropolis there are other grave sites on the small island of s'Illot des Porros off the coast . The origin of those buried in the necropolis is unclear, as no associated settlement has been found to date. A previously assumed Phoenician burial is now ruled out. Finds from the tombs of the necropolis can be viewed in the "Monographic Museum of Poŀlèntia " (Museu monogràfic de Poŀlèntia) in Alcúdia.
- Views of the necropolis
The Punta des Fenicis with the tombs
View over the burial ground
Naviform grave complex
One of the round tombs
literature
- Amparo Font Serra: Studio de los restos humanos procedentes de la necropolis de son Real . Edicions Universidad de Barcelona, Alcudia / Mallorca 1977, ISBN 84-600-0792-8 (Spanish, books.google.de - reading sample).
- Miquel Tarradell i Mateu, Dr. Jordí Hernández Gasch: Son Real: Necrópolis talayótica de la edad del hierro . Ed .: Departament de Prehistoria, Historia Antiga i Arqueologia de la Universidad de Barcelona. Barcelona 1978, ISBN 84-923969-0-3 (Spanish).
- Jordi Hernández-Gasch, Joan Sanmartí Grego, Míriam Castrillo Villa, Alícia Alesán Alias, Jordi Alfonso Quintana, Ramon Álvarez Arza, Núria Tarradell Font, Assumpció Malgosa Morera: Son Real Revisitat: Noves Campanyes d'Excavació a la Necròpolica Illa de Mallorca, 1998-2002) . In: Mayurqa: Revista Anual d'Història . No. 30 . Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2005, ISSN 0301-8296 , p. 381-420 ( ibdigital.uib.es [PDF; 16.4 MB ; accessed on October 29, 2015]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bartomeu Amengual Gomila: Coastal Travel Guide from the Air - Mallorca. Geoplaneta publishing house, p. 52, ISBN 84-08-02931-2 .
- ^ Tombs of Son Real and Illot des Porros
- ^ The Papers of the William L. Bryant Foundation in the Dartmouth College Library
- ^ Son Real - La Cultura Talaiòtica
- ↑ Necropolis of Son Real
- ↑ Necrópolis de Son Real ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Javier Aramburu-Zabala: Prehistòria. North-est de Mallorca. itinerarioshistoricos.diariodemallorca.es, archived from the original on July 14, 2013 ; Retrieved August 22, 2014 (Catalan).
- Necrópolis de Son Real