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Nuragic
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English
+ civilization
Alternative forms
en Nuraghic
Etymology
From en nuraghe en ic.
Adjective
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.
en 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 w:University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fw4XuEbKnQwC&pg=PA89&dq=%22Nuragic%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0juDw0Iz8AhWFVmwGHYfOBbsQ6AF6BAg6EAI#v=onepage&q=%22Nuragic%22&f=false 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.
en 2017 Isabelle Vella Gregory 35. Mediterranean—Sardinia Timothy Insoll The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines w:Oxford University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XaWpDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA808&dq=%22Nuragic%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0juDw0Iz8AhWFVmwGHYfOBbsQ6AF6BAg5EAI#v=onepage&q=%22Nuragic%22&f=false 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.
Translations
of or relating to an ancient Sardinian civilisation
French: fr nuragique
German: de nuragisch
Italian: it nuragico
Polish: pl nuragijski
Proper noun
The hypothesized language of the Nuragic civilization.
en The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon 2025 Cid Swanenvleugel 21 Nuragic and Etruscan would have been introduced to Sardinia and Etruria ca. 1000 BCE from Anatolia.
Further reading
Nuraghe