The tomb of Bingia 'e Monti is a pre- nuragic archaeological site located in the municipality of

Gonnostramatza Gonnostramatza, Gonnos-Tramatza in sardinian language, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about northwest of Cagliari and about southeast of Oristano, in the Marmilla Marmilla is ...

, in the

province of Oristano The province of Oristano ( it, provincia di Oristano, sc, provìntzia de Aristanis) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Oristano. It has an area of , a total population of 160,746 (2016), ...

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

. The tomb has the particularity of being halfway between hypogeism and

megalithism A megalith is a large Rock (geology), stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over 35,000 in Europe alone, located widely from Sweden to the Mediterr ...

. It consists of a compartment carved into the rock and another room whose sides are four large stone blocks and other small stones and whose coverage is with lintels. It was used between the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age by the people of the Monte Claro culture, the

Bell Beaker culture The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age. Arising from a ...

and the

Bonnanaro culture The Bonnanaro culture is a protohistoric culture that flourished in Sardinia during the 2nd millennium BC (1800–1600 BC), considered to be the first stage of the Nuragic civilization. It takes its name from the comune of Bonnanaro in the provin ...

. Excavations have returned, as well as numerous skeletal remains, several objects including a

gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...

necklace, the oldest artifact of this material ever found in Sardinia.

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GONNOSTRAMATZA - DOMUS DE JANAS DI BINGIA E MONTI
Archaeological sites in Sardinia {{europe-archaeology-stub