The tomb of the giants of Su Monte e S’Ape, a typical funerary monument of the Nuragic age, was excavated in 1968. This is a collective tomb, considered one of the most important in Sardinia in terms of size. It consists of: a burial corridor, covered with horizontal slabs, in which the deceased were laid to rest; and a semicircular space (exedra), reserved for funerary rituals and bordered by large slabs (orthostats) driven into the ground, in the center of which stood the stele.
The monument was probably built in two different phases. The chamber or corridor, of the allèe couverte type, would date to the Early Bronze Age (19th-17th centuries B.C.), while the addition of the exedra and its transformation into a giants’ tomb would date to the Middle Bronze Age (17th-14th centuries B.C.).
