Lanusei

The territory of Lanusei, a mountain town in Ogliastra, preserves traces of habitation dated back to the Neolithic, especially obsidian arrowheads and manufacturing waste.
The most important discoveries concern the Nuragic period with the today-called Seleni archaeological park, set in a magnificent forest of holm oaks and chestnut trees. Here there are a nuraghe, of which only the base remains, surrounded by a village and two giants’ tombs.
The two tombs are located at short distance from each other and have an apsidal burial chamber that is more than 10 meters long. Tomb I has a bench against the exedra, made with worked stones placed vertically; the corridor of the tomb is also made up of fixed blocks inclined towards the centre.
Tomb II has the façade and the corridor made of ordered rows of granite stones with a worked surface. The crowning ashlar of the structure was found near the exedra, equipped with 3 holes for the insertion of 3 small betyls.
Both tombs are dated to the Bronze Age: the n. I to the Middle Bronze Age and the n. II to the Final Bronze Age.