S'Iscia 'e Sas Piras
The necropolis of S'Iscia 'e Sas Piras consists of three Domus de Janas of the type with an architectural facade ( Italian Domus a prospetto architettonico ) and is 0.6 km southwest of Usini in the province of Sassari in Sardinia near a Roman road that Sardinian is called "S'istrada de sos Padres" (Street of the Fathers).
The necropolis consists of two neighboring and one about 200 meters away. The remains of nine men, three women and two children were found in the excavations carried out by Editta Castaldi in the 1960s in grave II, which measures approximately 2.1 × 2.9 m. The other finds date from the late Bronze Age (12th century BC).
The anthropological analyzes carried out by Franco Germanà in 1975 showed that the average height of the buried men was 167.7 cm and that of the women 155.5 cm. The three skulls examined were long-skulled (dolichomorphic). Due to the almost complete absence of tooth decay, it can be concluded that people lived healthy lives.
Nearby is the S'Elighe Entosu necropolis .
See also
literature
- Franco Germanà: L'uomo in Sardegna dal paleolitico all 'età Nuragica C. Delfino Sassari 1995
- Franco Germanà, Gino Fornaciari: Trapanazioni, craniotomie e traumi cranici nell'Italia antica Giardini Pisa 1992
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Coordinates: 40 ° 39 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 54.5 ″ E