Talaiot de Tirasset / Can Colau
DatedEst. 1600–123 BCE
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Talaiot de Tirasset / Can Colau is a talayot in Inca, Spain. It lies at 39.7021° N, 2.9762° E.
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The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Talaiot de Tirasset / Can Colau
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A talayot, or talaiot, is a Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Menorca and Mallorca, part of the Talaiotic culture. Talayots date from the late second millennium and the early first millennium BCE. There are at least 274 of them, in or near Talaiotic settlements and the chamber tombs called navetas. They generally take the form of circular or square buildings, and they may have been used as dwellings or meeting places. Some are thought to have had a defensive purpose; on Menorca, others may have served as lookout or signalling towers, since they form a network. The regional background, “Talayots of Mallorca and Menorca”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Spain are generally dated 1600 BCE to 123 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
The Talaiotic chronology spans from the emergence of cyclopean constructions around 1600 BCE to the Romanization in 123 BCE.
Setting
20 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (0 within 1 km, 8 within 5 km), 20 of them of the same type. In Inca, Spain, 4 of the 4 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Talaiot de Son Mas des Poticari / s'Argenteria (1.9 km south, talayot); Talaiot des Caülls (2.6 km north-east, talayot); Talaiot de Vinagrella / Es Forn de Calç (3.2 km north-east, talayot); Talaiot de Son Vivot / Es Puig / Claper des Moro (3.5 km north, talayot).
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Heritage status: bien de interés cultural.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Talayots of Mallorca and Menorca
A talayot, or talaiot, is a Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Menorca and Mallorca, part of the Talaiotic culture. Talayots date from the late second millennium and the early first millennium BCE. There are at least 274 of them, in or near Talaiotic settlements and the chamber tombs called navetas. They generally take the form of circular or square buildings, and they may have been used as dwellings or meeting places. Some are thought to have had a defensive purpose; on Menorca, others may have served as lookout or signalling towers, since they form a network.
The Talaiotic culture was the society of the Gymnesian Islands, the eastern Balearics. It evolved at the end of the second millennium BCE from the Pre-Talaiotic culture, and spans a very wide time frame; there is no agreement among researchers on its phases, which differ between Mallorca and Menorca.
At Torre d'en Galmés on Menorca the settlement developed from the start of the Talaiotic era, about 1400 BCE, and expanded until the end of the Roman occupation, and was one of the biggest towns in the Balearic Islands. It stood on a hill with views over the southern coast and used a sophisticated water collection system with cisterns.
Taulas are T-shaped stone monuments found on Menorca: a vertical pillar with a horizontal stone lying on it, up to 5 metres high, usually enclosed by a U-shaped wall. They were built by the Talaiotic culture between about 500 and 300 BCE, after the talayots, and are frequently found near them. Their meaning is unknown, but they probably had religious or astronomical purposes. Most face south.
When visiting, look at the stonework of the tower and the layout of the settlement around it.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Talayot, Wikipedia: Talaiotic culture, Wikipedia: Torre d'en Galmés, Wikipedia: Taula · CC BY-SA 4.0
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 1600–123 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for talayots in Spain; this site has not been dated itself. The Talaiotic chronology spans from the emergence of cyclopean constructions around 1600 BCE to the Romanization in 123 BCE.Source for this date
Where it stands
Spain
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- Coordinates
- 39°42′08″ N, 2°58′34″ EFor a GPS or map app: 39.70209, 2.97617
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- TalayotTalaiot de Son Mas des Poticari / s'Argenteria1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot des Caülls1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Vinagrella / Es Forn de Calç1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Son Vivot / Es Puig / Claper des Moro1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de s'Avençar / Son Trempó1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Son Bessó1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de l'Antigor / Es Cementeri des Moros1600–123 BCE
- TalayotTalaiot de Son Burguet / Can Tòfol1600–123 BCE
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Talaiot de Son Mas des Poticari / s'Argenteria1.9 km S
- Talaiot des Caülls2.6 km NE
- Talaiot de Vinagrella / Es Forn de Calç3.2 km NE
- Talaiot de Son Vivot / Es Puig / Claper des Moro3.5 km N
- Talaiot de s'Avençar / Son Trempó4.1 km NW
- Talaiot de Son Bessó4.3 km SE
- Talaiot de l'Antigor / Es Cementeri des Moros4.8 km S
- Talaiot de Son Burguet / Can Tòfol4.8 km E
- Talaiot de sa Serra de Muro / Can Carreres5.8 km SE
- Can Milec / Son Pelet6.8 km E
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