Pranu Muttedu
Pranu Muttedu - the Sardinian Stonehenge - is an important place of worship and burial (today an archaeological park), on a plateau near the town of Goni , in the Trexenta region, which belongs to the Italian province of Sud Sardegna in Sardinia . The name means: Plain of the myrtles . The site was discovered in 1975 in a cork oak grove on both sides of the Senorbi - Goni road.
The early phase on the Pranu Muttedu is associated with the expiring Ozieri culture , but the space was still used. The partly unique monuments are probably best comparable with those of Li Muri .
Menhirs
About 60 menhirs , which stand individually, in pairs, as a row of stones with worked 20 specimens - which are probably to be regarded as (protoanthropomorphic) precursors to the statue menhirs - or, like the group called “La Triade”, stand on the complex called “Tomb IV”; as three slender, columnar menhirs of different sizes.
- Pranu Muttedu
Pranu Muttedu, grave II
Pranu Muttedu, grave II
Pranu Muttedu, grave III
Pranu Muttedu, tomb V.
Tumuli
Two larger and three smaller tumuli lie near the row of stones. The monuments are encircled by two or three round-oval concentric stone walls, which form a tumulus that is sometimes stepped. The entrance corridors integrated into the tumulus (at grave III and V) are formed by rows of orthostats . The chambers are either small and one-room and seem to have been built for individual burials (grave 3). Larger ones (like grave V) have vestibules or side niches as they are later typical for nuragic entrances. The construction of grave II is unusual, which is surrounded by a low stone circle with a diameter of just over 30 m and whose tumulus is still partially preserved. Its access and the fragmentary 2-cell chamber were carved out of stone blocks that were integrated into an orthostat construction. The front sides are clearly recognizable as descendants of the rock chambers ( Domus de Janas ). In front of it stands a menhir set up as a guardian stone.
Other plants
On the other side of the road there are some earth tombs like “La Triade” and some less important Domus de Janas, covered with flat layers of stone and marked by groups of menhirs.
- Pranu Muttedu
Pranu Muttedu, menhir series
Pranu Muttedu, across the street
Pranu Muttedu, across the street
Pranu Muttedu
Parallels
This type of monument was probably much more numerous originally. A comparable structure can be found in the circular gallery tomb Masone Perdu near Corte Noa . Together with recently excavated Allée couvertes, which are attributed to the cultures of Abealzu-Filigosa . Here and in Li Muri there is a concentration of "protoanthropomorphic" statue menhirs.
Finds
Stone clubs like the one in Li Muri are evidence of a connection to the bell beaker culture , which is present at the end of the Ozieri culture in the north of the island. The remedello culture of mainland Italy is represented by flint daggers, which have long handle tongues and show a clean retouching . Silver rings of unknown origin complete the unusual picture.
See also
literature
- E. Atzeni, D. Cocco: Nota sulla necropoli megalitica di Pranu Mutteddu - Goni . In: Lucrezia Dettori Campus (ed.): La Cultura di Ozieri. Problematic e nuove acquisizioni . Editione Il Torchietto, Ozieri 1989, (Atti del I convegno di studio Ozieri, gennaoi 1986 - April 1987), pp. 201-216.
- Alberto Moravetti, Carlo Tozzi a. a. (Ed.): Guide archeologiche. Preistoria e Protostoria in Italia . 2: Sardegna . ABACO, Forlí 1995, ISBN 88-86712-01-4 .
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Coordinates: 39 ° 34 ′ 1.2 " N , 9 ° 16 ′ 4.8" E