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Culture and Archaeology on Sardinia National Museum Goodness Mother

Sardinian Sculpture

Cagliari National museum of Archaeology: Goodness Mother

Archaeological Exhibit in the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari

The findings of the Nuraghic period present in the museum are: pottery, tools, a collection of bronze weapons and especially many bronzes, small bronze sculptures representatives subject of various kinds (warriors, archers, sardus pater, Nuraghic head, priest).

Within the civilization pre-Nuraghic, Late Neolithic (3500-2700 BC), fits the culture of Ozieri documented from the settlements in the cave, and in villages outside tombs dug into the rock (also known as Domus de Janas). Among the archaeological finds characteristic of this period are: richly decorated pottery, metal objects, flint tools and obsidian.

Later in Old E-Neolithic Age (2700-2500 BC), in addition to the findings of Culture Ozieri (decorated ceramics, vases of stone, metal objects and instruments in flint and obsidian) are the cultural aspects of Filigosa and Abealzu, characterized respectively by cups are boarded a rigid profile and vases to flop and drafts shaped breast.

The Nuraghic statuettes belong, instead, the last period of Nuraghic Civilization (900 BC - 535 BC).

Of Neolithic period and of Sardinian E-Neolithic period are kept many different style ceramics, stone tools, tips and arrow in obsidian daggers, necklaces of bone and shells and several statues representing the mother goddess.

 

Document date: 2000-2006 - Sardinia Information Section Archaeology

 

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