page_title: History of Cagliari
section_title: Prehistory
hierarchical_section_title: History of Cagliari / Prehistory
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: MONTE CLARO CIVILIZATION. Museo archeologico nazionale di Cagliari.
context_section_description: Some Domus de Janas and the remains of huts of the IV - III millennium B.C. discovered in Saint Bartholomew zone on the hill of St. Elias, confirm that the area where the city today stands has been inhabited since Neolithic times. The resources of the sea, ponds, and partly rocky land suitable for cereal and some horticultural crops ensured the livelihood of the people during the peaceful pre-nuraghic period. Artefacts from the Monte Claro culture go back to the Copper Age and spread throughout the island, which takes its name from the eponymous hill of Cagliari. Archaeological finds from the Bronze Age, such as Aegean pottery found in the nuraghes of Antigori Sarroch, inspired the hypothesis that the Nuragicals settled in Cagliari, entertained intense commercial and cultural ties with the Mycenaeans, and are a testimony that their ports were already vital and busy. Inside the urban area no nuraghic building was found until 2012, when in Monte Claro some ruins of a sacred well were discovered. All around the city, east and west, there are nuraghes, giants' graves and sacred wells.
caption: Monte Claro civilization cruise
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