nuraghe
"The most distinctive traces of Sardinia's prehistory are the bronze age conical stones know as nuraghi"
E.Blake
The most preminent feature of the Sardinian archaeological landscape is the nuraghe tower. Over 7000 of these monuments are still preserved today, attesting to important social developments in Sardinian Bronze Age society. The Sardinian word nuraghe means "heap" or "hollow", and derives from its mound-like appeareance of stacked rock. A number of key syntheses have been published on the nuragic towers .. (Michael J. Kolb,The archeology of mediterranean prehistory,Blakwell 1998)
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I have wandered your blog and enjoyed your beautiful stone structures with their stone lintelled doorways, burial mounds and giant's stepping stones.
A landscape of legend and antiquity, where the very ground sings tales through the soles of your feet as you walk.
I welcome you to my imple blog of every day delights.
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