Menhir di Monte Corru Tundu

The Menhirs (from the Breton men and hir "long stone") are megaliths (from the Greek "big stone"). The Menhir Monte Corru Tundu is a colossal monolith in trachytic tuff, one of the largest in Sardinia, and is located north of the town of Villa Sant'Antonio, at the foot of Monte Corru Tundu, has a strongly tapered shape with a flattened part and the other rounded with three circular cups. It can be placed chronologically to the final Neolithic (3200-2850 BC). They could have been erected singly or in groups, with dimensions that can vary considerably, even if their shape is generally square, sometimes tapering towards the top as in our Menhir. The menhirs are widely distributed in Europe, Africa and Asia, but are more numerous in Western Europe, particularly in Brittany and the British Isles. They were erected at many different periods throughout prehistoric times. What characterizes the megalithic religions, however, is the fact that the ideas of perenniality and continuity between life and death are grasped through the exaltation of the ancestors, identified or associated with the stones.