Talayotic culture. Menorca
Submitted by
Pau on Wed, 08/27/2008 at 11:29am.
Talayotic settlements are everywhere in Menorca, particularly in the south east corner of this Balearic Island. Why are so many Talayot settlements, and so many of them are extremely intact? What does Talayot mean? Talayot is a pre-historic period at Bronze Age (2000 BC) which left various burial monuments such as megalithic tombs and collective tombs called navetas and large stone defensive constructions known as talayots. Anhoter peculiar monument is the taula (meaning table in Catalan). It's a T-shaped stone monument can be up to 3.7 metres high and consist of a vertical pillar with a horizontal stone lying on it. A U-shaped wall often encloses the structure.
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