Object type
soapstone necklace
Materials
soapstone
Technique
carving, polishing
Production date
-3500 / -2200
Seu
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Current location
MASPG
Archaeological site
Dolmen de Puig Roig o Cementiri dels Moros
Township
Torrent (Baix Empordà)
Dimensions
240 x 18 x 6 (Ø màx.) x 1,5 ( Ø mìn. ) mm
Description
Soapstone necklace recreated with some of the 669 beads that appeared in the dolmen of Puig Roig, also called the Moors Cemetery (Torrent, Baix Empordà), dated in the late Neolithic-Chalcolithic, between 3300-2200 BC.
The Moors Cemetery is a passage covered with mound, a collective grave that contained between 100 and 130 bodies, which has yielded the most abundant archaeological materials associated with a megalith in the Girona region.
© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID
3226