Nuragic

• Nuraghic

From nuraghe +‎ -ic.

Nuragic (comparative more Nuragic, superlative most Nuragic)

1. 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”, in 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.

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