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Il complesso funerario di Tamuli di Macomer - Archeologia della Sardegna

The area of ​​Tamuli, placed on a plateau, is essentially an area funerary complex. The space is dominated by a poly-lobed profile protonuraghe by leaning on the summit of a rock outcropping. The turreted structure develops as archaic tower surrounded by a rampart to which were added two towers and, further, a complex of fifteen huts. Some studies talk of town but the most credible hypothesis outlined a system in which the funeral elongated structures identical to those of Santa Cristina Paulilatino, would seem the heroon (burials) or the Tombs of Giants archaic without hemicycle. The area bounded by a rampart, denotes a conformation as funerary district and includes, within it, the Tombs of the Giants and a dolmen. The three Giants' graves, tombs of the aristocracy, are assignable to the type to prospectus wall where the rib, the large front screen, is divided into three pieces. Regarding the Tomb At the door is placed to close the corridor funerary while the other two pieces to which reference is made remain on the site but disassembled from the context. The first rib is said, is at the center of the exedra and is decorated with notched recesses; the second, rear window defined, is slightly shifted from the grave, and has a pentagonal shape on the visible side shows a cantilever ogive. The best known element of the website are the six betili: all finely finished and ogival shape, in three of them there are two drafts mammillary.