What does "nuragic" mean?

Of or relating to a civilization of Sardinia, which lasted from the Mediterranean Bronze Age until the 2nd century CE and built monuments of a type called nuraghe.

Nuragic

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Adjective

1
Of or relating to a civilization of Sardinia, which lasted from the Mediterranean Bronze Age until the 2nd century CE and built monuments of a type called nuraghe.
"North of this main sanctuary stood a building known as the chief's sanctuary. The nuragic period occupation level in the chief's dwelling produced pig, cow, and sheep bones along with pottery, fragments of bronze objects, a crucible and some slag."

Proper Noun

1
The hypothesized language of the Nuragic civilization.
"Nuragic and Etruscan would have been introduced to Sardinia and Etruria ca. 1000 BCE from Anatolia."

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"North of this main sanctuary stood a building known as the chief's sanctuary. The nuragic period occupation level in the chief's dwelling produced pig, cow, and sheep bones along with pottery, fragments of bronze objects, a crucible and some slag."

Etymology

From nuraghe + -ic.

Related phrases

bronze age

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