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Nuragic civilization

The Nuragic civilization,[1][2] also known as the Nuragic culture, was a civilization or culture on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy, which lasted from the 18th century BC [3] (Middle Bronze Age) (or from the 23rd century BC [4][5]) up to the Roman colonization in 238 BC.[6][7][8] Others date the culture as lasting at least until the 2nd century AD[9] and in some areas, namely the Barbagia, to the 6th century AD[10][11] or possibly even to the 11th century AD.[5][12]

The adjective "Nuragic" is neither an autonym nor an ethnonym. It derives from the island's most characteristic monument, the nuraghe, a tower-fortress type of construction the ancient Sardinians built in large numbers starting from about 1800 BC.[13] Today more than 7,000 nuraghes[a] dot the Sardinian landscape.


No written records of this civilization have been discovered,[16] apart from a few possible short epigraphic documents belonging to the last stages of the Nuragic civilization.[17] The only written information there comes from classical literature of the Greeks and Romans, and may be considered more mythical than historical.[18]

The or Iolaes (later Diagesbes), identified by ancient writers as Greek colonists led by Iolaus (nephew of Heracles) or Trojan refugees, lived in what is now central-southern Sardinia. Greek historians reported also that they were repeatedly invaded by the Carthaginians and the Romans, but in vain.[68]

Ilienses

The have been identified with the Beaker culture.[19]: 22–32  They lived in what are now the Nurra, Coghinas and Limbara traditional subdivisions of Sardinia. They were probably of the same stock from which the Talaiotic culture of the Balearic Islands originated.[19]: 22–32 

Balares

The lived in Gallura and in Corsica. They have been identified as the descendants of the Arzachena culture. In southern Corsica, in the 2nd millennium BC, the Torrean civilization developed alongside the Nuragic one.

Corsi

Nuraghes S'Arena (2017) short film inspired by the Nuragic civilization featuring the Italian rapper Salmo.[98][99]

fantasy

Balmuth, Miriam S. (1987). Nuragic Sardinia and the Mycenaean World. Oxford, England: B.A.R.

Webster, Gary S. (2015). The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia. Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing Ltd.

Zedda, Mauro Peppino (2016). "Orientation of the Sardinian Nuragic 'meeting huts'". Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry. 16 (4): 195–201.