Why did Sardinians build thousands of these useless towers

ceremonial

Small island, nothing to do except shag sheep and do autistic stuff before the Romans made them do something useful.

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>>3069367
I doubt it

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>>3069371
You think it was some Easter island-level autism?

>>3069388
They'd have small scale sieges using the towers, almost like castles.

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>>3069579
The problem isn't the size, some were very big with dozens of towers and different layers of wal like pic relatedl, but others were just singular towers like>>3069376

>>3069579
What were those skirmish like?

>tfw in the middle of nowhere, in a mostly unhabitated island, in a shitty little fort
>tfw 3 angry men screaming autistically while throwing spears at me
>tfw this surreal scenario is where lots of people died in Sardinia

>>3069361
"Look at me, I have a big tower and also a big dick"

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>>3069609
Sardinia had 300,000 people living in it which was a lot for the time, also there were some very huge nuraghi which could have functioned as forts but most of them couldn't have

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>>3069629
Another

>>3069629

That would mean there was very little population growth in 3000 years. Something wrong with Sardine sperm?

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>>3069629
>>3069633
I must also add that they appeared much bigger in the past considering many of them were partially destroyed to build houses, roads, bridged, etc

Pic related has an outer walls with 12 towers, + an additional bastion inside still unexcavated with probably 5/6 more towers

>>3069646
More likely just that the island can't support a higher population, so people either die or leave.

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>>3069646
Malaria was brought in the island around the final bronze age/ early iron age because of contacts with Cypriot and Phoenicians, since the most populated areas of the islands are near huge lagoons such as those near Cagliari and Oristano the population couldn't grow much because of how quickly malaria spread, that's why Romans often commented on how diseased and unsafe the island and its climate were.

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>>3069361
>>3069367
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>>3069376
>>3069388
>>3069579
>>3069594
>>3069609
>>3069626
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>>3069633
>>3069646
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>>3069670
>impyling Sardinia was populated pre-Renaissance

>>3069614
how did this arid rocky island support 300000 people

>>3069721
Here we go again with this

>>3069736
agriculture+fishing

How did people even boat there lmao.

>>3069609
Basically oh no, the other village/town is coming
>Run and hide in stone tower, shoot arrows and throw spears until they leave, if not they take you're shit

>>3069745
They've Found The earliest thraces of melon cultivation in The wester Med and The earliest thraces of vinification west of Greece too, in fact Sardinian Wine was popular as far ad Iberia, Crete and Etruria around 900-750 BC

>>3069759
They also had slingers and boomerangs

>>3069361
The only useless person you are. Those nuragic towers had the same functions of the castles in the middle ages and were perfectly useful as fortifications, city walls and Sight towers.

>>3069371
small island?!?!??!? Sardinia is the 48th largest island in the world, the second in the mediterranean, and one of the first ten in Europe.

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>>3069361

>>3071809

>What is relativity

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>>3069361

Arid rocky island???? really??? do you realize that Sardinia is located at the same latitude of New York and it was known as the roman granary due to its fertile lands and it's today the italian region richest of woods and forests?

>>3071836

>how many towers should we have, guys?
>what if ... what if EVERYTHING WAS A TOWER

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>>3069747
I don't understand what do you find funny, apart your ignorance.

Nuragics were great navigators and they reproduced their ships as bronze statuettes too, so it's possible see their engineering level still today.

>>3071860
>the roman granary
>Sardinina
>not Sicily or Egypt
stop making shit up

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>>3071889

>rome can't have more than one or two granaries

nigga when I played aoe I had dozens of granaries

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My post seems to have triggered many Sardshits but I actually do like Sardinian history

>>3069739
The meme will never die

>>3071877
...

It's an obvious reference to a widely known /his/ meme

>>3071889

>According to Roman philosopher and politician Cicero, writing in the 1st century BC, Sardinia,
Sicily and Africa were the main sources of wheat-growing

http://www.schools1.cic.ames.cam.ac.uk/pdfs/Food%20at%20Pompeii%20-%20Wheat.pdf

>>3071889
and so? the campidano plain in Sardinia were known as the "Roman Granary" during the Imperial roman Era, this doesn't exclude that in the ancient Rome other places were known with the same name.

>>3071906
So not Sardinina which is what I said
>>3071891
Made me chuckle. It's been a while 4chna, my old chap.

>>3071924
Read again mu post

>>3071922
>a place in Sardinina is called "the Roman granary"
>therfore Sardinia was known as the Roman Granery
You are fucking stupid.

>>3071945
the whole island was known a the Roman Granary


The Campidano is just the largest plain in the island that covers like 1/3 of its surface

>>3069361

No one really knows for certain as most were built 3,000 some odd years ago. However, scholars believe they could have been used for anything from temples to fortified dwellings. I personally tend to believe that they were fortified dwellings (not a fort or castle mind you) along with being somewhat of a statues symbol. The closest thing I can think to compare them to would be the tower house that appeared in the later part of the middle ages but then again that's just my opinion.

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>>3071985
Well, some like pic related were obviously straight out forts

>>3069361
>It's been established most of them couldn't be used as forts
How the fuck does one "establish" that? The Texans literally repurposed an old church into a fort.

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>>3072069
Or pic related which covered an area of 3600 square meters, positioned near a settlements with over 200 houses (basically a town)

>>3069361
5/10 bait IMO

>>3071836
>designed by From Software

>>3069388
>>3069376
>>3069361
>useless towers
argument from incredulity, my man

>>3072405
Pardon?

>>3071836
How the fuck do they know how it looked did they have pictures?

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>>3072534
The ancient Sards built hundreds of models of the Nuraghi and even some models of temples and houses

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>>3072549

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>>3072534
ancient nuragics did bronze and stone scale models of their buildings and they are exhibited in many sardinian museums today

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>>3072534

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>>3072594
They also drew them on vases

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>>3072603
And made Nuraghi shaped buttons

So were Sardinians obsessed with towers?

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>>3072617
yes