Naveta

Naveta refers to a prehistoric large stone building on the belonging to Spain Balearic Islands. The navetes of Mallorca and Menorca are known especially by the better -preserved remains in Menorca that are associated with a phase of island culture in the beginning of the Bronze Age.

The buildings belong to the semi- megalithic cult systems, although they originated much as continental equivalents later. Excavations at the naveta of Clariana allow the navetas to define as the center of Places of Pretalayotischen inhabitants. This was confirmed by the results of the Son Mercer de Baix in naveta and at the Gala Bianca. You have similarity with buildings of the culture of Fontbuisse in the eastern Languedoc.

Among the more complete today include Rafal Rubí in Alaior and naveta of de Biniac (also L'Argentina ). Outstanding is the naveta of Tudons in Ciutadella on the west of the island of Menorca. It measures outside 13 x 6 meters and is about three feet high. The naveta is the successor of Cueva, a scraped into the rock cave with a similar floor plan. It forms on both islands the precursor of different types of talayots Hypostyloi and Taulas.

• Naveta " of Tudons " Menorca
• Naveta "It Rafal Rubí " Menorca
• Naveta " L'Argentina " Menorca
• Input a naveta Menorca

Form

The naveta has the shape of overturned vessel. It is rounded at the leading side apsidenförmig and at the rear side, where their only access is blunt. The narrow flat roof does not end at a sharp keel, but it is closed by large plates. It tapers from the bottom in tholosartiger manner as a corbelled. Navetes can have internals and be divided horizontally inside; into a lower and an upper chamber. The chambers of the naveta of Tudons contained the skeletal remains of more than 50 people.