Description.
The Nuraghic architecture shows megalithic caves with quite peculiar shapes, from the dolmen to the giants� cave. The connection between the Nuraghic villages and the giants� caves is clear, with the exception of some domus de janas.
At the moment the known giants� caves are 321:
� 91 in the area of Cagliari
� 187 in the area of Nuoro
� 43 in the area of Sassari

The Giants� cave are megalithic and collective burials. Among the most important there痴 the one located in Garonna-Paulilatino, close to the Nuraghic settlement. It痴 the longest one, with its 23, 77 m. The burial shows the typical shape with a rectangular apse in the back and a circular exedra, the corridor痴 entrance with enough room for almost two hundreds corpses. It痴 a sort of huge village痴 burial . Basaltic memorial stones, symbols of the god protector of dead, were posed in front of the hemicycle.
Some excavations discovered jars� fragments containing the offering to the dead person: the so called dead痴 斗unch� or 電inner�.







 

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Le tombe pi� importanti