The typical nuraghe is situated in areas where previous Prehistoric Sardinians Cultures had been distributed, that is not far from alluvial plains ( though few nuraghi appear in plains nowadays, as they were destroyed by human activities such as agriculture, dams and others ) and has the shape of a truncated conical tower resembling a medieval tower ( outside ) or a beehive ( inside ).

Located in Sardinia and Corsica, the nuraghe civilization lasted from the early Bronze Age ( 18th century BC ) to the 2nd century AD, when the islands were already Romanized.

To the south-east, in the district known as the Cunelie, are a large number of tombs, known as sesi, similar in character to the nuraghe of Sardinia, though of smaller size, consisting of round or elliptical towers with sepulchral chambers in them, built of rough blocks of lava.

This is showed by numerous remains contained in the nuraghe, such as amber coming from the Baltic Sea, small bronzes portraying African apes and animals, copper nuggets and weapons from Eastern Mediterranean, Mycenaean ceramics.

The nuraghe ( plural Italian nuraghi, Sardinian nuraghes ) is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900-730 BC.

One such is " nura ", found in " nuraghe ", the main form of pre-Roman building, hence the term for the pre-Roman era as the Nuragic Period.

Some authors consider them somewhat older than the typical nuraghe and probably serving different purposes.

Small-scale models of nuraghe have often been excavated at religious sites ( e. g. in the " maze " temple at the Su Romanzesu site near Bitti in central Sardinia ).

Archaeological evidence of prehistoric human settlement on Sardinia island is present in the form of the nuraghe and others prehistoric monuments which dot the land.

Prehistoric Sardinia is characterised by stone structures called nuraghe, of which there are more than 8, 000.

Losa nuraghe, ca.

The nuraghe towers are unanimously considered the best preserved and largest megalithic remains in Europe.

Religion expressed itself around sacred wells, often in association to the megalithic nuraghe, most of them of Beaker signature.

Very close to the village is the nuraghe Losa.

The nuraghe Losa ( in Sardinia, close to the village of Abbasanta ) is a complex prehistoric building in the shape of a tholos tomb.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

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As the Ottoman Empire further fragmented during the Balkan Wars, much of the non-Christian populations of its former possessions, mainly the Balkan Muslims, flocked to Anatolia and were resettled in various locations, mostly in formerly Christian villages throughout Anatolia.

The Ainu were a society of hunter-gatherers, who lived mainly by hunting and fishing, and the people followed a religion based on phenomena of nature.

The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.

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These studies were performed mainly in the former Soviet Union, at the Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology, Republic of Georgia.

* Elma MacGibbons reminiscences about her travels in the United States starting in 1898, which were mainly in Oregon and Washington.

They were perhaps not named " Angles " at that time ; however, the territory of the Teutones probably included the Vorpommern and the region south to the Elbe ( mainly Holstein ), accounting for the implied larger range of the Angles in later sources.

Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.

The colony was still very short of skilled farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen, and the convicts continued to work as little as possible, even though they were working mainly to grow their own food.

His rabbinic education was acquired mainly at Tiberias, in the academy presided over by R. Johanan, with whom his relations were almost those of a son ( Yer.

These early print advertisements were used mainly to promote books and newspapers, which became increasingly affordable with advances in the printing press ; and medicines, which were increasingly sought after as disease ravaged Europe.

These philosophers were concerned mainly with ethics and religion.

Although Bede is mainly studied as a historian now, in his time his works on grammar, chronology, and biblical studies were as important as his historical and hagiographical works.

It mainly consisted of allegations of sectarian spending discrepancies between Protestant Airdrie and Catholic Coatbridge, fuelled by the fact that all 17 of the ruling Labour group were Roman Catholics.

The British Army's lessons were mainly drawn from the successful infantry and artillery offensives on the Western Front in late 1918.

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

In Czech, the region since the early Middle Ages has been called only Čechy (" Czech ") or Království české (" Czech Kingdom "), and its mainly Czech-speaking inhabitants were called Čechové ( in modern Czech Češi ).

Bestiaries were particularly popular in England and France around the 12th century and were mainly compilations of earlier texts.

The direct result of the battle of Schwetz / Świecino was that the city of Danzig and Pomerania were freed from Teutonic Order danger so that the royal and municipal armed forces could be used elsewhere in the war, mainly to protect the Vistula waterway and to capture the Teutonic held strongholds.

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In a matter of months the War Department built thirty-two camps, each one accommodating fifty thousand men -- sixteen were under canvas in the South and sixteen with frame structures in the North.

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As new homes were built they were connected so that all residences south of School Street are served by it.

Department stores were built on dry goods, especially ladies' fashions, and in this area, in the long run, the suburban branches will be hard put to compete against downtown.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

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These theories were built on a coherent building of argument from assumed or accepted beginnings.

Some amateur astronomers use home-made radio telescopes, while others use radio telescopes that were originally built for astronomy research but have since been made available for use by amateurs.

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Large hotels were built during the Belle Époque ; cog-railways, built early in the 20th century, brought tourists to ever higher elevations, with the Jungfraubahn terminating at the Jungfraujoch after going through a tunnel in Eiger.

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The houses were built of unmortared stone, which means that no cement or mortar was used to hold the stones together.

Ceremonial structures known as kivas were built in proportion to the number of rooms in a pueblo.