During the Bronze Age, the age of the heroes of the ancient mediterranean civilisations, a people rooted in Sardinia since several millennia built thousands of cyclopean stone monuments, the nuraghi. Roughly four hundred years (1600-1200 a. C.) of building frenzy, population increase, land colonization and integrated farming system development created a highly deforested and exploited landscape, dotted with small and large nuraghi. These formed a thick network of multi-purpose buildings structured in several districts with different hierarchical levels, real co-ordinating centres of production activities, mainly for concentration and redistribution of products. That’s why nuraghi kept an important role in rural territory management till medieval and modern times.
