Necropolis of Santu Pedru
The necropolis of Santu Pedru is an archaeological site of the municipality of Alghero, Sardinia. Located near the road to Uri, the necropolis consists of 10 Domus de Janas tombs. Dating back to the pre-Nuragic period (third millennium BC), the burial site was used for about a millennium by the cultures of Ozieri, Abealzu-Filigosa, Monte Claro, Bell Beaker and Bonnanaro.
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The necropolis of Santu Pedru is an archaeological site of the municipality of Alghero, Sardinia. Located near the road to Uri, the necropolis consists of 10 Domus de Janas tombs. Dating back to the pre-Nuragic period (third millennium BC), the burial site was used for about a millennium by the cultures of Ozieri, Abealzu-Filigosa, Monte Claro, Bell Beaker and Bonnanaro.
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• Name — Necropolis of Santu Pedru • Location — Alghero, Sardinia, Italy • Type — Burial • Epochs — Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age • Cultures — Pre-Nuragic Sardinia
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• Illustration — Tripod footed bowl, Bell Beaker culture
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Situated in Italy. Institutional cataloguing adds that necropolis of Santu Pedru lies within Alghero. Recorded at coordinates 40.6231, 8.4030. Institutional cataloguing adds that necropolis of Santu Pedru is recorded as Museum of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
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- 1.La numérotation des tombes reprise dans la page est celle de Moravetti qui diffère légèrement de celle de Contu.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Catalogo dei siti. Alberto Moravetti, Paolo Melis, Lavinia Foddai, Elisabetta Alba. La Sardegna preistorica. Storia, materiali monumenti. Carlo Delfino editore. 2017. 500. 384. 9788893610827.
- Paolo Melis. Lo scavo della Tomba X nella necropoli ipogeica di Santu Pedru (Alghero - Sassari) : una domus de janas delle prime fasi del Neolitico Recente. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche. LIX. 93-114. 2009.
- Paolo Melis. Necropoli di Santu Pedru, Tomba III (Alghero, SS). Notiziario di Preistoria e Protostoria. II. 62-65. 2020.
- Paolo Melis. La necropoli di Santu Pedru. Giuseppa Tanda, Luca Doro, Luisanna Usai, Francesca Buffoni. Arte architectura nella preistoria della Sardegna - Le domus de janas. Cagliari. Condaghes. 2023. 279. 44-51. 978-88-7356-402-7.
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