![]() ![]() Nuragic era Early Bronze Age Īlbucciu ( Arzachena), example of proto-nuraghe The beakers arrived in Sardinia from two different regions: firstly from Spain and southern France, and secondly from Central Europe, through the Italian Peninsula. ![]() The altar of Monte d'Accoddi fell out of use starting from c. 2000 BC, when the Beaker culture, which at the time was widespread in almost all western Europe, appeared on the island. According to some scholars, the similarity between this structure and those found in Mesopotamia are due to cultural influxes coming from the Eastern Mediterranean. Remains from this period include hundreds of menhirs (called perdas fittas) and dolmens, more than 2,400 hypogeum tombs called domus de Janas, the statue menhirs, representing warriors or female figures, and the stepped pyramid of Monte d'Accoddi, near Sassari, which show some similarities with the monumental complex of Los Millares ( Andalusia) and the later talaiots in the Balearic Islands. This took place during the 4th millennium BC. In 2014, early Chalcolithic period Sardinia was identified as one of the earliest silver extraction centres in the world. With the diffusion of metallurgy, silver and copper objects and weapons also appeared on the island. The economy was based on agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing, and trading with the mainland. Several later cultures developed on the island, such as the Ozieri culture (3200−2700 BC). The most ancient settlements have been discovered both in central and northern Sardinia ( Anglona). In the Stone Age the island was first inhabited by people who had arrived there in the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages from Europe and the Mediterranean area. One of the Domus de janas of the necropolis of Monte Siseri, Putifigari The only written information there comes from classical literature of the Greeks and Romans, and may be considered more mythical than historical. No written records of this civilization have been discovered, apart from a few possible short epigraphic documents belonging to the last stages of the Nuragic civilization. Today more than 7,000 nuraghes dot the Sardinian landscape. It derives from the island's most characteristic monument, the nuraghe, a tower-fortress type of construction the ancient Sardinians built in large numbers starting from about 1800 BC. The adjective "Nuragic" is neither an autonym nor an ethnonym. Others date the culture as lasting at least until the 2nd century AD and in some areas, namely the Barbagia, to the 6th century AD or possibly even to the 11th century AD. The Nuragic civilization, also known as the Nuragic culture, was a civilization or culture on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, which lasted from the 18th century BCE (Middle Bronze Age) (or from the 23rd century BCE ) up to the Roman colonization in 238 BCE. ![]()
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