© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3226
Dolmen de Puig Roig o Cementiri dels Moros

soapstone necklace

MAC GIR-041481

Object type
soapstone necklace
Production date
-3500 / -2200
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
-
Discovery location
Dolmen de Puig Roig o Cementiri dels Moros
Materials
soapstone
Township
Torrent (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Baix Empordà)
Technique
carving, polishing
Where is it?
MASPG
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.