Scholars build a new nuraghe with prehistoric techniques
No recourse to technology, we will work as tens of centuries ago: the laboratory construction site in Gergei will last about 20 yearsA new nuraghe will be built in the Gergei countryside. An open-air experimental archeology laboratory construction site will be created with the aim of creating a three-lobed nuraghe over the course of twenty years.
«A titanic undertaking never attempted by anyone until now: creating a prehistoric megalithic construction, remaining as close as possible to the probable and realistic technologies of the time through the use of materials available in the area», explain the brothers Simone Ollanu and Claudio Ollanu, president and vice-president of the Perdas Novas association, promoters and coordinators together with the architect Beatrice Auguadro, of the "Nuraghe" project which involves academic archaeologists, engineers, artisans and representatives of the institutions.
«An initiative that intends at the same time to validate theories and construction techniques and hypotheses formulated by various experts to raise, cut, move and move large blocks of stone. But still specialize the workers to intervene on existing nuraghi without damaging them, obviously following the dictates of the Superintendence", adds Beatrice Auguadro. Approved by the Municipality of Gergei, the project is developed in three steps: an international conference, an experimental construction site to first study the construction system of the top of the prehistoric megalithic buildings and understand how the corbel could support the Nuragic terrace, creating it first on the ground and , third step, the establishment of a technical-scientific committee for the creation of the full-scale nuraghe.
«The largest experimental site for the construction of a Nuraghe from scratch in Sardinia», as the promoters define it, will be illustrated in the international conference "Stone Architecture": three days, 10, 11 and 12 November in Serri and Isili, at the sociocultural center and in Gergei, in Is Perdas. The scientific committee includes, among others, the astrophysicist and archaeoastronomer Giulio Magli, the archaeologists Giorgio Murru, Nicola Dessì and Franco Campus, the philosopher Silvano Tagliagambe, the engineer Angelo Saba, the megalithism expert Alberto Pozzi, Elisabetta Gola expert in communication.
(Unioneonline)
