Protonaveta from Son Olivaret
| Protonaveta from Son Olivaret Sepulcre de Son Olivaret | |||
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| place | Ciutadella , Menorca , Balearic Islands , Spain | ||
| Emergence | 1600 BC Chr. | ||
The Protonaveta of Son Olivaret is a Bronze Age tomb on the Balearic island of Menorca . It is one of the best preserved specimens of these megalithic buildings , which can be classified between dolmen and navetas in terms of time and architectural features and which were used for collective burial .
location
The site is 6.5 km south of Ciutadella on a military site, about 100 m northwest of the Me-24 to Cap d'Artrutx . The remains of the talayotic settlement of Son Olivaret Nou are 1350 m to the northeast.
description
The Protonaveta has an almost round floor plan with an outer wall made of large stones. Inside there is an oval chamber that can be reached from the outside via a short passage. There is a third wall between the inner and outer walls for stabilization. The gaps are filled with smaller stones. The roof collapsed in prehistoric times and has not been preserved. The building was originally covered with earth and had the shape of a hemispherical hill.
Excavations at the Museu de Menorca from 2003 to 2005 uncovered the highly fragmented bones of at least 128 people. It turned out that they come from two phases of use. The first was in the Early Bronze Age and lasted from 1600 BC. Until about 1050 BC It coincides with the period when Naviformes , double-walled residential buildings with an elongated, horseshoe-shaped floor plan were built in Mallorca and Menorca .
In addition to human bones, fragments of ceramic vessels and awls made of bones and bronze were found. The deceased were buried in robes held together with buttons made of bone. The second phase of use began in the Talayotic period around 850 BC. And lasted about 200 years. The burials took place on the remains of the already collapsed roof.
Nomination for World Heritage List
The Protonaveta of Son Olivaret is one of the 32 archaeological sites that Spain officially proposed on January 14, 2016 as " Talayotic Culture of Menorca " for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List . The World Heritage Committee postponed the application at its 41st meeting in July 2017 and requested improvements.
literature
- Lluís Plantalamor Massanet, Sílvia Villalonga Garcia: Monument funerari de Son Olivaret . Consell Insular de Menorca, 2007.
- Lluís Plantalamor Massanet, Sílvia Villalonga Garcia, Josep Marqués Moll: Monument funerari de Son Olivaret . Conselleria d'Educació i Cultura del Govern Balear, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Javier Aramburu-Zabala: Inventario de yacimientos con talayot de Menorca. Ciutadella III , accessed May 16, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ a b Information board at the site
- ^ Antoni Nicolau Martí, Elena Sintes Olives, Ricard Pla Boada, Albert Àlvarez Marsal: Talayotic Minorca . The prehistory of the island. Triangle Books, Sant Lluís 2015, ISBN 978-84-8478-640-5 , pp. 283 (English).
- ↑ Son Olivaret tomb on the Menorca Talayótica website, accessed on May 15, 2017 (English).
- ↑ The monuments in the nomination on the website Menorca talaiòtica des Consell Insular de Menorca (English), accessed on May 10, 2017
- ↑ World Heritage Committee (Ed.): List of nominations received by February 1, 2016 and for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 41st session (2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 427 kB ]).
- ↑ World Heritage Committee (Ed.): Decisions adopted during the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee (Krakow, 2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).