Nuragic
English
Alternative forms
- Nuraghic
Etymology
From nuraghe + -ic.
Adjective
Nuragic (comparative more Nuragic, superlative most Nuragic)
- Of or relating to a civilization of Sardinia, which lasted from the Mediterranean Bronze Age until the 2nd century CE and built monuments of a type called nuraghe.
- 2007, Stephen L. Dyson, Robert J. Rowland, Jr., Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: Shepherds, Sailors, and Conquerors, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, page 89,
- North of this main sanctuary stood a building known as the chief's sanctuary. The nuragic period occupation level in the chief's dwelling produced pig, cow, and sheep bones along with pottery, fragments of bronze objects, a crucible and some slag.
- 2013, Fulvia Lo Schiavo, 10: The western Mediterranean before The Etruscans, Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan World, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 209,
- Two points are by now acknowledged: the first, and already discussed above, is the Cypriot impact factor on Nuragic Sardinia, more than on any other western land, specifically connected to the metallurgy.
- 2017, Isabelle Vella Gregory, 35. Mediterranean—Sardinia, Timothy Insoll (editor), The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines, Oxford University Press, page 808,
- While figurines were an integral part of Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age life, they disappear from society until the later Nuragic period. […] The lack of figurines is a conscious choice, as is the decision to produce over 500 bronze figurines (bronzetti) in phases III and IV of the Nuragic period.
- 2007, Stephen L. Dyson, Robert J. Rowland, Jr., Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: Shepherds, Sailors, and Conquerors, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, page 89,
Translations
of or relating to an ancient Sardinian civilisation
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Further reading
Nuraghe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia