ProverbioEdoardoRomanoGiulianoAveniAnthony, ‘Astronomical orientations of five megalithic tombs at Madau, near Fonni in Sardinia’, Archaeoastronomy (supplement to Journal for the history of astronomy, no. 11 (1987), S55–66.
2.
Idem, ‘Astronomical orientations of ‘Tombe dei giganti’ in Barbagia (Sardinia)’, in Colloquio Internazionale Archeologia e Astronomia, ed. by RomanoG.TraversariG. (Rome, 1991), 52–59; ProverbioEdoardo, “New evidence concerning possible astronomical orientations of ‘Tombe di giganti’”, in Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s, ed. by RugglesClive (Loughborough, 1993), 324–31; idem, ‘New observations of possible astronomical orientations of burial monuments in Sardinia’, in Archaeoastronomy from Scandinavia to Sardinia: Current problems and future of archaeoastronomy, ed. by PásztorE. (Budapest, 1995), 15–23.
3.
HoskinMichaelAllanElizabethGralewskiRenate, ‘The tombe di giganti and temples of Nuraghic Sardinia’, Archaeoastronomy (supplement to Journal for the history of astronomy, no. 18 (1993), S1–26.
4.
Idem, ‘Studies in Iberian archaeoastronomy: (1) Orientations of the megalithic sepulchres of Almería, Granada and Málaga’, ibid., no. 19 (1994), S55–82; ‘(2) Orientations of the tholos tombs of Almería’, ibid., no. 20 (1995), S29–40; ‘(3) Customs and motives in Andalucía’, ibid., no. 20 (1995), S41–48. Further fieldwork in Portugal and north and north-west Spain, which we hope to publish in 1997, has revealed similar patterns elsewhere in the peninsula.
5.
LilliuGiovanni (La civiltá dei Sardi, dal Paleolitico all'etá dei nuraghi (Rome, 1988), 517) speaks of there being 321 extant tombe di giganti, but we believe the number to be at least 400.
6.
WoodcockN. H.Dr, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, private communication.
7.
Estimates of the number of surviving nuraghi vary. There is no reliable catalogue, but it seems likely that the number is about 7,500.
8.
On this see MassimoPittau, La Sardegna nuragica (Sassari, 1977).
9.
WebsterGarry S., ‘Monuments and Nuragic organization’, Antiquity, lxv (1990), 840–56; idem, ‘Nuoro, loc Duos Nuraghes’, in Scavi e Scoperte, Bolletino archaeologico ministeriale, 1990, 258; WeissAviva Grele, ‘A temporal analysis of the ceramic industry at Duos Nuraghes: A step towards chronology’, in Sardinia in the Mediterranean: A footprint in the sea. Studies in Sardinian archaeology presented to Miriam S. Balmuth, ed. by TykotR. H.AndrewsT. K. (Sheffield, 1992), 277–86.
10.
MancaGiacobbe, ‘Premessa critica’, Studii recenti sopra i nuraghi e loro importanza, ed. by CenturioneA. M. (Nuoro, 1995), 9–95.
11.
See, for example, Lilliu, op. cit. (ref. 5).
12.
See, for example, La Sardegna, ed. by BrigagliaManlio (Novara, 1967), 5, 7.
13.
LilliuGiovanni, Monumenti antichi barbaricini (Sassari, 1981); MancaGiacobbe, ‘La tomba di Jumpadu o Gonnorigori e le ‘stele’ con dentelli’, Origini, xi (1977–82), 415–50; BittichesuCaterina, La tomba di Bùsoro a Sedilo e l'architettura funeraria nuragica (Sassari, 1989).
14.
MancaGiacobbe, ‘Nuraghi de Sardaigne et torre de Corse: Analyse structurale et conservation de ces monuments’, Corsica antica (Levie, 1993), 31–34; ‘Ricerca strutturale e salvaguardia dei monumenti preistorici’, Sardegna antica culture Mediterranee, 1994, no. 5, 18–23; and ‘Premessa critica’ (ref. 10).
15.
HoskinMichaelAllanElizabethGralewskiRenate, ‘Orientations of Corsican dolmens’, Journal for the history of astronomy, xxv (1994), 313–16; and ‘Further orientations of Corsican dolmens’, ibid., xxvi (1995), 247–52.
16.
Idem, op. cit. (ref. 3), Table 6, plus the dolmen of Motorra, near Dorgali, which faces due south.
LaiGloria, ‘Le tombe megalitiche A e B di Sa Mandara — Guasila’, in La Sardegna nel mediterraneo tra il bronzo medio e il bronzo recente (XVI–XII sec. a.C.): Atti del convegno di Selargius-Cagliari 1987, ed. by LilliuG. (Cagliari, 1992), 157–66.
21.
HoskinAllanGralewski, op. cit. (ref. 15, 1994), Fig. 2 (Dolmen de Settiva), and op. cit. (ref. 15, 1995), Fig. 4 (Dolmen de Vaccil-Vecchiu).
