Giovanni Lilliu (born in

Barumini Barumini ( sc, Barùmini) is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of South Sardinia in the Italian region of Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality ...

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on 13 March 1914 – died in

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, 19 February 2012), was a renowned archeologist, academician, publicist and politician and public figure and an expert of the

Nuragic civilization The Nuragic civilization, also known as the Nuragic culture, was a civilization or culture on Sardinia (Italy), the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, which lasted from the 18th century BC (Middle Bronze Age) (or from t ...

. Largely due to his scientific and archeologic work in the Su Nuraxi di Barumini in

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, Italy,Sardinien.com: Die Nuraghenfestung Su Nuraxi
the site was inscribed on the

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list of

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s in 1997.

Bibliography

*''La civiltà dei Sardi dal neolitico all'età dei nuraghi'', Torino, 1967 *"I nuraghi della Sardegna" dans ''le vie d'Italia'', 195

*''La civiltà dei Sardi dal Neolitico all'età dei Nuraghi'', Torino, 1963 *''Sculture della Sardegna nuragica'', Cagliari, 1966 *''La civiltà nuragica'', Sassari 1982 *''Cultura e culture'', Sassar, 1995 *''Arte e religione della Sardegna prenuragica'', Sassari 199

*''La costante resistenziale sarda'', Nuoro, 200

*''La civiltà dei Sardi dal Paleolitico all'età dei Nuraghi'', Nuoro 2004 * *''I nuraghi. Torri preistoriche di Sardegna'', Nuoro 200

*''Sardegna Nuragica'', Nuoro 200

*''Sardegna e Mediterraneo negli scritti di Giovanni Lilliu'' Volumes 1-6, 2008 *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lilliu, Giovanni Italian archaeologists Italian politicians 1914 births 2012 deaths Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies 20th-century archaeologists