Arzachena culture
The Arzachena culture was a late Neolithic pre-Nuragic culture occupying the northeastern part of Sardinia and part of southern Corsica from roughly the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC. It takes its name from the Sardinian town of Arzachena.
The Arzachena culture is best known for its megalithic structures, suchs as the characteristic "circular graves" and menhir. Both the funerary architecture and the material culture show similarities with contemporary contexts of Catalonia, Languedoc, Provence and Corsica.
Differently from the people of the contemporary Ozieri culture of the rest of Sardinia, the people of the Arzachena culture were organized in an aristocratic and individualistic society focused on pastoralism rather than farming agriculture. The aristocratic groups buried their dead in megalithic monuments in the shape of a circle, with a central chamber containing a single individual, while on the rest of the island the Ozieri people buried their dead in collective hypogeum tombs called Domus de Janas.
