Sardinia Arzachena Grave of Giants of Li Lolghi (Sassari)
Grave of Giants of Li Lolghi (1800 - 1200 B.C.) Schema Sardinia Archaeology InformationOther important and ancient culture is that called of Arzachena from the name of the place of the principal archaeological recoveries of this culture.
Grave of Giants of Li Lolghi (Arzachena) Photo FonteSarda 2006 The graves of giants owe their name to the local tradition in reason for the notable dimensions of these constructions. They are collective burials of Nuraghic Age constituted from a corridor of burial covered by plates and originally overhung by a tumult of earth and stones. The before semicircular space (exedra), vertically delimited by nailed in plates, it was reserved to the cult and to the rites of offer for dead. In the great central stele (meters 3,75 of height) the bands in relief that adorn it and the porthole of communication with the corridor of burial they seem to remember as a whole one "false door" symbol of the relationship with the life after death. The narrow dimensions of the anterior opening show its symbolic function; it seems in fact that inhumation of the dead persons had to happen from the tall one through the removal of one of the plates of coverage. The final part of this grave and a more ancient burial (1800-1600 b.C.) that in the Nuraghic Age was widened and expanded with long vain of burial and of the exedra. The tumult of the Grave of Giants of Li Lolghi has a length of around 27 meters; in effects, the burials of this type were enclosed under a great ellipsoidal tumult of stones and earth. This class of gravestones they derive from the development simplest tomb forms (dolmen and "allées couvertes"). Other Information of Archaeology in SardiniaTraces of the period Paleolithic has been found again in the north of the island and particularly in the center-north (the famous Venus of Macomer, the rocky graffiti of the Green Cave of Alghero).
Document date: 2000-2006 - Sardinia Information Section Archaeology
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