Thanks for taking us with you on your adventures. Always interesting. Also, these Nuraghes remind me so much of the Scottish Brochs, just smaller in size.
I personally think they are connected, and share the same cultural lineage/grouping of similar familial/clan blood feuding/vendetta cultures across Europe and parts of the Middle East which I think came out of the Caucasian Mountain region. ( See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud#Blood_feuds) Besides Brochs, You also have: Svan Towers in the Caucasian Mountains Maniots Family towers in the Peloponnese Albanian Kulle Towers Southern Italy, Corsica, and Sardinia share a similar Vendetta Culture (Sardinia it’s called Disamistade). You also have the Trullo in Apulia which shares the same beehive construction as the Nuraghe. In the Levant, the Beehive structures (most famously in Harran Southern Turkey, but over 40 villages) almost all seem to be built by or influenced by the local Circassians in the area who build in this very traditional beehive structural style. Apulia Portugal was originally called that by the Romans. The construction of many of the structures in the area when they arrived reminded them of the Trullo in Apulia Italy. Galicia Spain just to the north also shares this blood feuding culture. The tower construction styles changed in some areas, but I believe the underlying vendetta culture has persisted. I also believe that you can trace the migratory route out of Northern Anatolia/Caucasian Mountain area to Arcadia Greece, Southern Italy/ Sicily, Sardinia, then to Iberia (specifically the Galicia region), and eventually into Ireland/Scotland. The folklore and mythology has always claimed this. The spread of various place names suggests this, the historical record has clues that point to this, the archeological evidence from where I stand seems to support this, and the anthropological/cultural evidence seems to point to this as well.
Well done Mirco and Debora, and the smaller stones 'molten' together seem to be the result of working with kiln's for smelting at high temperatures up to - 1100 degrees centigrade. With those bellows driven kiln's they could disintegrate granite blocks with use of blocks of natron found in salt lakes. The process create granite ash with waterglass layer on top of it, after cooling. When you put those together with normal water, you get concrete, sort of. In ancient times they must have found some Natron nearby, because the needed much of it. This indicates also, the age of the construction, as the ironage just started. good find! cheers
there are some nuraghi which might resemble castles, I'll present one in the next video, but in my opinion they have nothing to do with military purposes, at least not in the culture they were originally built. Later use might have been military, though.
Speculations go from military defense buildings, to shepherd's homes, to religious buildings, but even scholars don't all agree on them. To me, they're still a mystery, especially considering there are 8000 of them!
VERY interesting, but I'm a little confused. When you stated it was a cone with the top missing, that implies it once had a top. Did it? Or, was it designed to be a truncated cone. The mortar is naturally in better shape in the interior. The outside mortar has cracked and washed out over the centuries.
According to official theory, they had some sort of enlarged, upper turret. But not one of the 8000 Nuraghi has been found in that condition, which is a speculation based on some bronze statuettes found, which in my opinion are of a later culture. When I said it was missing something on top I was referring to the fact that the top seems partially collapsed. But in my opinion, they were truncated cones.
Many similarities with the Scottish Brochs from the late iron age, the internal stair case set in the wall. the small entrance for defence. Why has this ancient monument been left to collapse do the Sardinians have no respect for their heritage??????
Thanks for taking us with you on your adventures. Always interesting. Also, these Nuraghes remind me so much of the Scottish Brochs, just smaller in size.
I personally think they are connected, and share the same cultural lineage/grouping of similar familial/clan blood feuding/vendetta cultures across Europe and parts of the Middle East which I think came out of the Caucasian Mountain region. ( See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud#Blood_feuds)
Besides Brochs,
You also have:
Svan Towers in the Caucasian Mountains
Maniots Family towers in the Peloponnese
Albanian Kulle Towers
Southern Italy, Corsica, and Sardinia share a similar Vendetta Culture (Sardinia it’s called Disamistade). You also have the Trullo in Apulia which shares the same beehive construction as the Nuraghe. In the Levant, the Beehive structures (most famously in Harran Southern Turkey, but over 40 villages) almost all seem to be built by or influenced by the local Circassians in the area who build in this very traditional beehive structural style.
Apulia Portugal was originally called that by the Romans. The construction of many of the structures in the area when they arrived reminded them of the Trullo in Apulia Italy. Galicia Spain just to the north also shares this blood feuding culture.
The tower construction styles changed in some areas, but I believe the underlying vendetta culture has persisted. I also believe that you can trace the migratory route out of Northern Anatolia/Caucasian Mountain area to Arcadia Greece, Southern Italy/ Sicily, Sardinia, then to Iberia (specifically the Galicia region), and eventually into Ireland/Scotland. The folklore and mythology has always claimed this. The spread of various place names suggests this, the historical record has clues that point to this, the archeological evidence from where I stand seems to support this, and the anthropological/cultural evidence seems to point to this as well.
So similar you’d think there would be a connection 🏴👍🏻
Very interesting, thanks for sharing...
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow! Amazing! You guys are very brave to climb inside that thing. I've never seen anything like that. Awesome video! Thanks!!
Thanks for watching!
Well done Mirco and Debora, and the smaller stones 'molten' together seem to be the result of working with kiln's for smelting at high temperatures up to - 1100 degrees centigrade.
With those bellows driven kiln's they could disintegrate granite blocks with use of blocks of natron found in salt lakes.
The process create granite ash with waterglass layer on top of it, after cooling.
When you put those together with normal water, you get concrete, sort of.
In ancient times they must have found some Natron nearby, because the needed much of it.
This indicates also, the age of the construction, as the ironage just started.
good find!
cheers
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With that level of stone construction and scale why would there not be a castle built in the same style somewhere ? Cool stuff ! :O)
there are some nuraghi which might resemble castles, I'll present one in the next video, but in my opinion they have nothing to do with military purposes, at least not in the culture they were originally built. Later use might have been military, though.
Very impressive structure. I wonder what they were used for.
Speculations go from military defense buildings, to shepherd's homes, to religious buildings, but even scholars don't all agree on them. To me, they're still a mystery, especially considering there are 8000 of them!
VERY interesting, but I'm a little confused. When you stated it was a cone with the top missing, that implies it once had a top. Did it? Or, was it designed to be a truncated cone.
The mortar is naturally in better shape in the interior. The outside mortar has cracked and washed out over the centuries.
According to official theory, they had some sort of enlarged, upper turret. But not one of the 8000 Nuraghi has been found in that condition, which is a speculation based on some bronze statuettes found, which in my opinion are of a later culture. When I said it was missing something on top I was referring to the fact that the top seems partially collapsed. But in my opinion, they were truncated cones.
Any ideas of what it was for?
2m of accumulated dirt tells me Sardinia hasn't studied all the nuraghes
I'd love to own this one because it's the best I've seen
That tower is the greek fryctories ,, light signal tilecomunication system ..
Many similarities with the Scottish Brochs from the late iron age, the internal stair case set in the wall. the small entrance for defence. Why has this ancient monument been left to collapse do the Sardinians have no respect for their heritage??????