The municipal area offers notable traces that date back to the Neolithic.
The hypogean necropolis of Cuccuru is Arrius, located on the southern shore of the Cabras pond, dates back to the Middle Neolithic (Bonuighinu culture 5th millennium BC). Precisely in Cuccuru is Arrius and in Conca Illonis there are traces of settlements dating back to the most recent phases of the Neolithic (culture of San Ciriaco and San Michele) and, in the second site, to the eneolithic culture of Monte Claro. In the Nuragic period there are even 75 nuraghi, of which 47 single tower and 28 complexes, located on the ridge of the hills and near the ponds, in addition to numerous villages. Among these we mention the vast village with nuraghe, datable between the 15th and 12th centuries BC, found in Murru Mannu. The imposing nuragic statues of Mont’e Prama can be dated to the Iron Age, found by chance in the seventies and restored between 2006 and 2011.
To the 8th-7th century BC Tharros was founded by the Phoenician merchants, a thriving and rich city, inhabited continuously throughout the Carthaginian and then Roman period.
