An infinite “Damnatio memoriae” , an endless condemnation of memory. The devastation of history that reduced them to a thousand pieces was not enough, now is the time of modern "condemnation", the one that flows silently from the offices of Rome to the courtrooms. There is no peace for the Giants of Mont'e Prama. In this "promised" land torn up by plows and tractors, by state bulldozers and bureaucracy, the dream of the ancient glories of the past is increasingly a chimera. Rivers of ink have been written about the history of this hill, despite the fact that the "stone ancestors" had chosen to entrust to supreme symbols and imposing vestiges the testimony of a past that still today frightens foreign primate lovers in the ancient land of Sardinia.
Perennial war
Internal struggles, yesterday as today, between civilizations first and between offices after, violence and negligence on that promontory of history and cumbersome past. Today's history, the most recent one, is marked by protocols and letters, proclamations of nothingness, announcements of imminent excavations, and so much, infinite desolation for an abandoned site like never before. Hills slapped by the wind and negligence, the one that has been hitting the Sinis for fifteen years. It is almost a new story, written this time on official documents, traced on indelible and ignored geophysical reliefs. A dispute between the new frontiers of "intelligent" archaeology, made up of enlightened men and ground penetrating radar, and the perennial harassment for that area stirred like an earthly blender.
Giants & ground penetrating radar
Stop still, without shame, at that modest plot of land marked by the far-sighted intuitions and discoveries of Antonio Taramelli, in 1929, of Giovanni Lilliu and Enrico Atzeni, 1974-1977, of Alessandro Bedini in 1975 and Carlo Tronchetti in 1977. Not even one hectare of excavations, a continuous open and close, as if every time there was an influencer on duty ready to take credit for what had already been discovered in the past, by others obviously. We continually stir without opening the horizon even for a moment on that immense archaeological deposit put in black and white, between abscissae and ordinate, by an instrument as opposed as it is innovative, the ground penetrating radar. An enlightened geophysicist, Professor Gaetano Ranieri, and one of the "fathers" of that site, Professor Raimondo Zucca, took him for a "walk" on those disenchanted hills.
