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| Joseph de Ca'th Lon visits Tumba de Zigantes |
Joseph de Ca'th Lon and his friends are in Lu Palau today. Joseph loves Archaeology and they are visiting Tumba de Zigantes aka Li Mizzani, an amazing megalithic gallery grave located on the north of the island.
During the travel from Castaddu to Palau, The Grandma has been studying a new lesson of her Elementary Language Practice manual (Grammar 9).
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Palau, in Gallurese Lu Palau, is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in Sardinia about 220 kilometres north of Castaddu/Cagliari and about 30 kilometres northwest of Olbia. It was a frazione of the comune of Tempio Pausania until 1959.
It is located on Punta Sardegna, and was founded in 1875 by local shepherds. The Capo D'Orso or Cape of the Bear formation is nearby, at the very northwest tip of Sardinia. The unique formation is a result of honeycomb weathering, a form of salt weathering.
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Giants' tomb, in Sardinian Tumba de zigantes, is the name given by local people and archaeologists to a type of Sardinian megalithic gallery grave built during the Bronze Age by the Nuragic civilization. They were collective tombs and can be found throughout Sardinia, with 800 being discovered there.
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stone cairn lies over the burial chambers, with some examples having a
cup-shaped entrance similar to the court cairn tombs of Ireland.
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| Visiting Tumba de Zigantes aka Li Mizzani |
There are two general types of giants' tomb. In the so-called slab type, uncut slabs are buried on end in the ground, and are arranged side-by-side. There is usually a central stele, which is the largest slab, up to 4 m in height, and has a doorway cut through it.
In the more primitive slab-type giants tombs, the central slab is unmodified aside from the entrance that is cut through it at the base, or else there is a crude dolmen-like arrangement of 3 uncut rocks to form the entrance like Osono, Sortali, Lolghi and Pescaredda.
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In more advanced slab-type giants tombs, the central slab is modified so as to be rounded on top, and has a simple design carved into the front surface like Dorgali, Goronna, Santu Bainzu and Coddu Vecchju.
The sepulchres have a characteristic rectangular plan with an apse. The burial chamber is usually 5 to 15 metres long and 1 to 2 metres high. The structures were originally covered by a mound resembling the shape of an overturned ship. Near the entrance an obelisk, betile in Sardinian, is usually found, which symbolizes the gods or ancestors who watched over the dead.
The so-called block type tombs are made of rectangular-cut blocks like Bidistili, Madau II, Seleni II, Iloi and Mura Cuata.
There are also structures similar to the block-type giants tombs on the island of Malta, in the United Kingdom and in Menorca.
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows,
man is an invention of recent date.
And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel Foucault
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