Naveta de Cala Blanca
DatedEst. 1700–850 BCE
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
The naveta known as Naveta de Cala Blanca lies in Ciutadella, Spain. Its entries are Wikidata item Q43107237; the position in the catalogue is 39.9680° N, 3.8367° E.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
About Naveta de Cala Blanca
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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A naveta is a chamber tomb of the Balearic island of Menorca, shaped like an upturned boat, hence the name, a diminutive of nau, the word for ship. Menorca and Mallorca have several dozen habitational and funerary naveta complexes, some with two storeys. Navetas are pre-Talaiotic, built before the Talaiotic age. Their name was given by Juan Ramis in a book of 1818, from their resemblance to upturned boats, and they were not excavated until the twentieth century. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Menorcan navetas”.
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Typological estimate, not a date for this site: monuments of this kind in this region are normally dated 1700 BCE to 850 BCE. The range comes from what is known about naveta monuments in Spain; nothing measured on this site itself is on record, so it may be younger or older than the range suggests.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Naveta”): Navetas were used between 1700 and 1300 BCE and the funerary naveta between 1050 and 850 BCE.
Landscape and neighbours
Counting outward from Naveta de Cala Blanca, there are 1 catalogued site within 1 km, 9 within 5 km and 37 within 10 km, and 4 of them are also classed as naveta. It is one of 6 naveta records among the 42 sites catalogued in Ciutadella, Spain.
The nearest neighbours in the catalogue are Hipogeus de Parella Nova (0.1 km south-east, hypogeum); Hipogeu de Son Vivó (2.5 km north-east, hypogeum); grave of Son Olivaret (2.8 km south, megalith); Hipogeu de Sant Joan Gran - cova des Pastell d'Enfora (3.6 km east, hypogeum). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
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Wikidata lists the site with the heritage status bien de interés cultural. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q43107237), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Sites of this kind often lie on farmland or other private ground, so check local access rules before visiting and leave the monument as you found it.
How this page was madeSources for this section
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Nothing on this page was written by an AI model: it is assembled by program from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Menorcan navetas”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), with distances and counts calculated from the catalogue coordinates.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Menorcan navetas
A naveta is a chamber tomb of the Balearic island of Menorca, shaped like an upturned boat, hence the name, a diminutive of nau, the word for ship. Menorca and Mallorca have several dozen habitational and funerary naveta complexes, some with two storeys. Navetas are pre-Talaiotic, built before the Talaiotic age. Their name was given by Juan Ramis in a book of 1818, from their resemblance to upturned boats, and they were not excavated until the twentieth century.
The most remarkable is the Naveta d'es Tudons, on the Ciutadella to Mahón road in the western part of the island, about three miles from Ciutadella. Its name comes from the place: Es Tudons means "the wood pigeons". It stands on slightly rising ground in a sloping valley, and is one of the main tourist attractions of Menorca. It is open to the public, except for its interior, which is closed as a protective measure.
The Naveta d'es Tudons served as a collective ossuary between 1200 and 750 BCE. Its lower chamber held the disarticulated bones of the dead after the flesh had been removed, and the upper chamber was probably used for drying recently placed corpses. The remains of at least 100 skeletons were found, one with a trepanned skull, with bronze bracelets and bone and ceramic buttons that are in the Museu de Menorca in Mahón. Radiocarbon dating of the bones found in funerary navetas on Menorca indicates use between about 1130 and 820 BCE, although the Naveta d'es Tudons itself is probably older. The two or three missing courses at the top were restored, and a dry-stone wall protects it.
When visiting, look at the way the large stones are fitted and note the upturned-boat shape.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Naveta d'es Tudons, Wikipedia: Talaiotic culture, Wikipedia: Talayot · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photographs
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 1700–850 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for navetas in Spain; this site has not been dated itself. Navetas were used between 1700 and 1300 BCE and the funerary naveta between 1050 and 850 BCE.Source for this date
Where it stands
Spain
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 39°58′05″ N, 3°50′12″ EFor a GPS or map app: 39.96804, 3.83667
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Hipogeus de Parella Nova- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Hipogeu de Son Vivó
grave of Son Olivaret4300–1200 BCE- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Hipogeu de Sant Joan Gran - cova des Pastell d'Enfora
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Hipogeu de Sant Joanet
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Hipogeu des Lloc des Pou
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Hipogeus de s'Hort d'en Saura
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Hipogeu de Son Marçal
Sources
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- 01Wikidata Q43107237wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Hipogeus de Parella Nova<0.1 km SE
- Hipogeu de Son Vivó2.5 km NE
- grave of Son Olivaret2.8 km S
- Hipogeu de Sant Joan Gran - cova des Pastell d'Enfora3.6 km E
- Hipogeu de Sant Joanet3.8 km E
- Hipogeu des Lloc des Pou4.0 km E
- Hipogeus de s'Hort d'en Saura4.7 km N
- Hipogeu de Son Marçal4.8 km N
- Hipogeu de Son Camaró4.8 km E
- Naveta de Binipati Nou5.3 km NE
Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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