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Does Sardinian folk belief connect to the island's prehistoric Nuragic religion, and if so how?

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Sardinian folk belief is described as layered over the island's prehistoric Nuragic civilization and Ozieri culture tombs, but the folklore itself was recorded only from the nineteenth century onward, and nothing currently establishes a documented line of transmission between the prehistoric archaeological culture and the modern oral material.

What would resolve this Archaeological or textual evidence linking specific Nuragic-era ritual practice to a named figure or custom still recorded in nineteenth or twentieth century Sardinian folklore would establish an actual continuity, rather than a merely geographic layering.
Openarchaeology and folklore studiesDolores Turchi, Leggende e Racconti Popolari della Sardegna (Turchi)
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Leggende e Racconti Popolari della Sardegna (Turchi)
Dolores Turchi, Newton Compton, Rome, 1999
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