page_title: Nuragic civilization
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Nuragic civilization / Culture
caption_attribution_description: Sardinia - Italy - Bronzetto sardo - guerriero nuragico. By --Shardan 16:38, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
context_page_description: The Nuragic civilization, also known as the Nuragic culture was a civilization or culture on the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, Sardinia, which lasted from the 18th century BCE up to the Roman colonization in 238 BCE. Others date the culture as lasting at least until the 2nd century AD or possibly even to the 6th century AD.
  The adjective "Nuragic" is neither an autonym nor an ethnonym. It derives from the island's most characteristic monument, the nuraghe, a tower-fortress type of construction the ancient Sardinians built in large numbers starting from about 1800 BCE. Today more than 7,000 nuraghes dot the Sardinian landscape.
  No written records of this civilization have been discovered, apart from a few possible short epigraphic documents belonging to the last stages of the Nuragic civilization. The only written information there comes from classical literature of the Greeks and Romans, and may be considered more mythological than historical.
caption: Bronze sculpture of a warrior with four eyes and four arms
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