 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is the grave of one of the talaiotic people....
in Menorca.
 
The dead were just laid out on the floor with some of their belongings...
 
...that they had in life.
 
[groans]
 
Oh well...
...nobody left in here.
 
[birds chirping]
 
 
This is a Menorcan burial chamber...called naveta.
 
Dates from 3000 to 4000 years ago.
There were two layers to it.
Bodies were placed in the bottom layer
And many years later when they had decomposed...
...the bones were then moved to the upper chamber...
...leaving space for more members of the community to be buried below.
 
And this is the way in.
I wonder how much we can see...
...inside.
We'll have a look.
Hows that?
 
I don't know. I can't really see...
[Groans] ...what we're seeing. So I hope that shows something.[pants with effort!]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And this one is accessible...[groans with effort!]
Careful!
 
Go in and have a look and see what's here.
 
 
Another little room.
And the main chamber in here [scary music/sounds start]
I wonder if this was for storage or if people lived in here.
 
 
That's a little vent ...maybe not.
 
There's somewhere there you could sleep, I suppose.
You could leave your reading matter there beside the bed (joke!).
 
Rough floor. In some of these caves apparently they levelled them up with clay.
To make them a bit more comfortable.
OK then nothing more to see in here then I think.
 
Nothing really.
 
 
Probably I think this would have had some kind of door...of some kind to keep animals and insects out.
 
OK
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Buzzing of flies. [Scary noise continues]
[birdsong]
 
Another burial cave.
Let's look in.
 
It smells as if the last occupants had a smoke!
OK  There we go.
one, two, three...
...maybe four.
Four graves.
 
"I would think the individual graves bit is Islamic. Because they have a rule about where you put bodies into the ground."
 
 
OK another post-talaiotic burial cave which has been used for other things since...
...including as a wine press which they say is still here.
 
Not a wine press, an olive press.
There you go.
I think this is indisputable evidence that
they also had bicycles!
There you are they also had bicycles in the post-talaiotic period! [laughs]
 
 
"These look like big parts of the olive press don't they?"
Yeh I think they must be.
"Possibly the olives were pressed in there and the oil was collected."
Yeh I hope they removed most of the bodies first.
 
Bodies may be underneath here still.
" I think they just thought 'oh extra protein' " Quite a big cave.
[Male choir bass various tones start]
 
 
 
 
 
 
That was sizable...place. You stand up in this one no trouble.
 
 
 
"Echo! Echo!"
It's got a brilliant echo! [laughs]
 
Like a hand?
 
"Nope I shall just look inside. It's huge" There's plenty headroom.
"It's climbing out again is the problem."
 
 
 
 
This is the Necropolis. I climbed up stairs there.
And found an entrance to another...burial chamber through here.
 
It must have been 'interesting' to pass the bodies in because it's... you can only get through to this one from here it seems.
 
 
 
My wee body goes through the hole.
Into here. There we are.
[pants]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This one has more or less one way out where I can climb which is through here...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It's a bit rocky at the beginning...
I'm just saying it's a bit rocky at the beginning.
And I fully expect it to be the same all the way along! [laughs]
And another cave!
I keep on passing caves.
This one's definitely been used by people more recently. This a more recent wall.
 
Need a torch.
 
Look at the size of this.
 
 
 
[wind in grass, birdsong]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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