{"id":4785,"date":"2023-11-10T08:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turismobaunei.eu\/services\/grutta-e-janas-cave"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:01:03","slug":"grutta-e-janas-cave","status":"publish","type":"cpt_services","link":"https:\/\/www.turismobaunei.eu\/en\/services\/grutta-e-janas-cave","title":{"rendered":"GRUTTA ‘E JANAS” CAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space alter_height=”small” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_column_text]The name of this small cave hidden in the ridge at the foot of \u201cMontargia\u201d, the limestone bastion that dominates the upper part of the town of Baunei<\/a> (a district called \u201cBidda ‘e Susu\u201d, which literally means \u201cthe village above\u201d)<\/p>\n

reproduces verbatim the name of many other island caves that popular tradition has always surrounded in an aura of mystery. In fact, just as \u201cGrutta ‘e Janas\u201d means \u201ccave of fairies, witches\u201d in Sardinian, the pre-nuragic necropolises excavated in the rock, found throughout Sardinia, are called \u201cDomus de Janas\u201d (\u201chouse of the fairies, witches\u201d). Nowadays, archaeologists have revealed the mystery of the use of the \u201cDomus de Janas\u201d, although some aspects of the funerary rituals and pre-nuragic religiousness are still a mystery. \u201cGrutta ‘e Janas\u201d is open to the public (through a path to get to, at the base of the face of the \u201cMontargia\u201d), and it deserves to be included in historical \u2013 tourism guides because of the unique stalagmite floor that is slightly tilted and decorated with a very complex pattern, the meaning of which remains uncertain. The depiction consists of 18 shallow channels that branch off from a main basin a few centimetres deep and reach a number of cupels that are arranged without apparent criteria. Precisely because of the peculiar characteristics of the pattern dug into the floor, in 2005 the cave was the subject of an archaeological dig conducted under the supervision of archaeologist Maria Ausilia Fadda. During the excavations, the area was fenced and some explanatory signs regarding the most important features of \u201cGrutta ‘e Janas\u201d were attached to the site\u2019s main gate. The contents, signed by Fadda, explained that \u201cthe cave is characterised by the presence of a complex engraved depiction, from the late Neolithic (4000-3200 BC), probably used for propitiatory fertility rites\u201d. Similar engravings have also been discovered and studied in the Piedmont and Liguria regions, analogies that according to Fadda \u201ccould further confirm Sardinia\u2019s strong ties with the mainland, which exported obsidian from the rich deposits of Monte Arci in the south of France. These commercial ties significantly influenced the production of ceramic artefacts, such as a square-mouthed vases, very similar to those produced in Liguria, and the vases with surfaces produced using the glossy \u201cstralucido\u201d technique, such as those from the French Midi region\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ icons_position=”left”][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”custom_widgets_2″][vc_empty_space hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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