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domus de janas
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How it came to be
Domus de janas, Sardinian for houses of the fairies, are prehistoric tombs cut into the rock. About 3,500 are known across the island, made from the Neolithic through the Copper Age into the early Bronze Age, roughly between the 5th and 3rd millennia BCE. Many copy the layout of houses of the living, and many cemeteries lay close to settlements.
Their walls were carved or painted with spirals, zigzags and bull horns. Some 20 tombs, mostly in the north-west, have carved or painted false doors, and the cemetery of Anghelu Ruju near Alghero holds 38 tombs. The dead were coated with red ochre and buried with everyday objects, jewellery and tools. The tradition ended with the arrival of the Nuragic civilisation, around the 17th century BCE.
In 2025, 18 components were inscribed as the Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sardinia. Together they form the largest known group of such tombs in the Mediterranean and Europe.
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