Nuragic civilization
The Nuraghen in Sardinia began to develop at around 1600 BC during the Bronze Age from the Bonnyrigg culture. It was named after the stone towers erected by her, the Nuraghe named.
History
The Nuraghen is divided by Paolo Melis in five major and nine sub-phases:
The nuragic cultivated from about 1600 BC economic relations with the Eastern Mediterranean ( Minoan and Mycenaean culture ). Copper was popular in Sardinia. Bullion in the form of an ox-hide at that time were the typical commercial form of copper in the Mediterranean. Its origin is believed to Cyprus. The most of them were found in Sardinia, where only little Copper was promoted. A trace element analysis and mass spectrometric analysis of Late Bronze Age copper and bronze objects from Sardinia and of copper ores yielded the result that all Sardinian oxhide ingots from Cyprus originate, while the respectable copper and bronze objects of nuragic are made from native copper. A copper exports, which went out of Sardinia, it was not even in the late Bronze Age. What the nuragic in turn traded with Greece and Cyprus, remains open.
Foreign influence
When the Mycenaean culture about 1050 BC finally went down, the Phoenicians gained naval supremacy in the Mediterranean. They built from 650 BC (probably with the consent of nuragic ) branches, but began 550 BC to colonize the island. The screened trends in distress nuragic attacked the successor of the Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, 509 BC, and were sometimes victorious. Ultimately, however, there was a large-scale occupation by the Carthaginians ( called by the Romans Carthaginians ). Between 500 and 238 BC, they brought the parts that interest them, located mainly on the west half of the island, under their rule and established several places ( Bosa, Bythia ( Chia ), Cagliari, Cornus, Nora, Olbia, Sulki (now Sant'Antioco ) and Tharros ). That led to ethnic and cultural fusions. The Nuraghen that created unique bronze figures, it went under.
The construction techniques of simultaneous Torre culture in Corsica, the Sesioten on Pantelleria and the Talayotic in the Balearic Islands are similar to those of the nuragic.
Structures
The nuragic built next to the Nuraghe Giants 'Tombs ( Madau, Muraguada ) and characterized the late form of Sardinian rock tombs ( Mesu ' s Montes, Molafa, Su Carralzu, Sos Furrighesos ). Between 1200 and 900 BC Nuraghe Nuraghe Santu complexes emerged as the Ballantine Barumini and Sa Domu 'e S'Orcu. They built well sanctuaries ( Sa Testa, Santa Cristina Santa Vittoria, Su Tempiesu etc.). From 1000 to 700 BC the Iron Age was Nuraghen. In the late phase 900-500 BC emerged particularly in the province of Nuoro, Nuraghe, which represent another part nuraghenlose form of the cult place design ( Serra Orrios and Tiscali ).