domus de janas di Su Stampu 'e sa Fata

Domus de janas, Sardinian for "houses of the fairies" or, alternatively, "houses of witches", are a type of pre-Nuragic rock-cut chamber tomb found in Sardinia. The names are folklore: later people imagined the small carved rooms as dwellings of fairies or witches. In fact they are tombs, with several chambers quarried out by the people of the San Ciriaco through Ozieri cultures and later groups, in a layout that resembles a house. The regional background, “Domus de janas of Sardinia”, is given below.

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