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With the name of "navetas" it isknown a type of inhumation tomb(in spite of the fact that also thereare "dwelling navetas", of slightlyprevious appearance)characterized by its form of facedownwards hull of ship (nave in

Spanish language). In fact, not allthe "navetas" present an apsidalplan so clear as their namesuggests, but the most famous,since that of "es Tudons", thatcertainly adopts this form, haveimposed this terminology.

Inheritors of the megalithicbuildings, these burial structurespresent an internal distributionthat remembers that of the"sepulchres with corridor", with asmall quadrangular door, a corridor and a chamber. The door is opened in the front, the "stern" ofthe ship in nautical language, which often tends to be lightly concave, and gives way to a corridorthat in occasions presents a chimney in front of the perforated slab that gives way to the chamber.This is normally elongated and, sometimes, it has a floor to which we would access by means of thementioned chimney. It seems to be that the ground floor was used for the primary burials, whereasthe floor was an ossuary. Structurally, a light inclination of the walls towards the interior (what isnamed an "approximation of rows") was that allowed the placement of the big slabs of the roof,pavement too of the ground floor.

Talking on typology, and leaving aside the "dwelling navetas", there are distinguished two separatedgroups of "navetas", which probably answer to two different evolutionary stages: the called ones "ofintermediate type and those "of elongated plan". (...)

In this way it begins the introduction of this monograph dedicated to other one of the typicalmonuments of the Minorcan Prehistory. After detailing afterwards the characteristics of bothmentioned types, the author immediately describes up to 14 well-preserved copies of Minorcan burialnaviformes, giving, once more (as in the whole collection), the basic guidelines to locate them and toeasily come up to them.

LAGARDA MATA, Ferran (2005): Navetas. Zaragoza, 2005.68 Pages with 66 Illustrations in full colour.Language: Spanish (also there is a version in Catalan). Retail price: 18.00 ISBN: 849335757X (Spanish), 8493357561 (Catalan).

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