Sardinia is riddled with extraordinary archeological sites, from early Neolithic standing stones & structures to the Nuraghe towers, Punic & Roman cities & ruins. Today, for Standing Stone Sunday, I visited the amazing Nuraghe tower & village (1500-1200BC), with large stone chamber intact, and the baffling sacred well (from about 1000BC), aligned for solar equinox and greater lunistice, all at Santa Cristina near Paulilatino.
Fabulous nuraghe of Genna Maria near Villanovaforru in Sardinia that I visited a few weeks ago on my way to UniCa, blissfully free of crowds - or of anyone, really! The central tower was built sometime in the Middle Bronze Age (about 1350BC), with more recent additions of a village during the Iron Age. Super simple & clever glass panel showing what it might have looked like, that you can gaze through & photograph. Mesmerizing. #StandingStoneSunday#Sardegna#Sardinia#nuraghe#bronzeage
A fine 'playing card' stone for today's #StandingStoneSunday (Aubrey Burl's term for a standing stone which is a thin, flat slab): Waun Leuci, partway up the side of hill in Y Mynydd Du, an area rich with prehistoric archaeology.
Nearby is the wonderful Cerrig Duon stone circle with the Maen Mawr outlier and stone rows, round barrows and an enigmatic stone setting. It stands above the nascent Afon Tawe.
Prehistoric #rockart on the high slopes of the Ballaghbeama Gap, County Kerry, #Ireland. Sometimes called ‘Atlantic Rock Art’, similar designs were carved on rocks from #Portugal to the north of #Scotland. In Ireland, #prehistoric rock art like this probably dates back to the #Neolithic, though it may have been made into the #BronzeAge. Rough estimates would place it then between 3,200-2,000BC.
#Cricket (the sport - so much so that I spin my cricket jokes off elsewhere to spare you all - see @liebcricket for that)
#ComicBooks (in particular, #Superhero comics and, even more particularly #DC superhero comics and, even more superspecifically, #BronzeAge DC superhero comics)
#Survivor - the TV show, not the band (although the band's fine)
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