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Sanctuary
Sanctuary
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Menorca...what books?
Jan 12, 2013, 18:34
My cousin in Jersey is visiting Menorca in July and is asking for suggestions of books to read on the antiquities to be found there. Any advice please folks?
Megalithics
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Re: Menorca...what books?
Jan 12, 2013, 20:37
We found that the big problem here is that all of the really good or detailed books are in Spanish!

The best we found by far was "History of the Balearic Islands" (title translated). it comes in two volumes

Vol 1. "The prehistoric settlement of the Balearic Islands. From the origins to the Bronze Age" Authors Victor M. Guerrero Ayuso, Manuel Calvo Trias and Simon Gornés Hachero.

Vol 2. Mallorca and Menorca in the Iron Age The Talayotic settlements and Postalayótica. Authors Victor M. Guerrero Ayuso, Manuel Calvo Trias and Simon Gornés Hachero.

Both published in 2006 by El Mundo-el Dia de Beleares

The full content of both volumes was available ( in Spanish )on the web as PDFs for free. We converted the PDFs to html and then read them using Google translate. Unfortunately we cannot find the bookmark for the webpages, but a little googling should find them if they're still around.

The last few decades have seen big changes in the understanding of how the talayotic culture displaced the earlier ways of life, these volumes were the only ones we found that included these new findings.

We visited just about all of the major Menorcan sites and they are tremendous, there is no health and safety nonsense there, you are free to explore as you wish. At Torre d'en Galmes there is an entire talayotic city to explore!
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
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Re: Menorca...what books?
Jan 12, 2013, 20:48
Megalithics wrote:
We found that the big problem here is that all of the really good or detailed books are in Spanish!

The best we found by far was "History of the Balearic Islands" (title translated). it comes in two volumes

Vol 1. "The prehistoric settlement of the Balearic Islands. From the origins to the Bronze Age" Authors Victor M. Guerrero Ayuso, Manuel Calvo Trias and Simon Gornés Hachero.

Vol 2. Mallorca and Menorca in the Iron Age The Talayotic settlements and Postalayótica. Authors Victor M. Guerrero Ayuso, Manuel Calvo Trias and Simon Gornés Hachero.

Both published in 2006 by El Mundo-el Dia de Beleares

The full content of both volumes was available ( in Spanish )on the web as PDFs for free. We converted the PDFs to html and then read them using Google translate. Unfortunately we cannot find the bookmark for the webpages, but a little googling should find them if they're still around.

The last few decades have seen big changes in the understanding of how the talayotic culture displaced the earlier ways of life, these volumes were the only ones we found that included these new findings.

We visited just about all of the major Menorcan sites and they are tremendous, there is no health and safety nonsense there, you are free to explore as you wish. At Torre d'en Galmes there is an entire talayotic city to explore!


Brilliant, thank you very much
Cheers, Roy
ryaner
ryaner
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Re: Menorca...what books?
Apr 16, 2017, 13:31
Any more info on this Roy?

Or anyone?

Thinking of 10 days here in the summer, any help appreciated.
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
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Re: Menorca...what books?
Apr 19, 2017, 11:59
ryaner wrote:
Any more info on this Roy?

Or anyone?

Thinking of 10 days here in the summer, any help appreciated.


I'm afraid not ryaner and never even been sent a photograph. On return my cousin was admitted to hospital to have a tumour removed from inside her nasal passage as it was spreading upwards. After the op she spent six weeks in a London hospital having radio therapy to save her having to keep flying over from Jersey three times a week. All seemed well and she returned to the island and kept under observation. Three months later she suffered a stroke and has been in a nursing home ever since with movement in just one hand and arm! Just when you think you've heard it all, her husband was found dead at the new home he had bought after selling their family home. It was all fitted out for her return.
Enjoy life while you can as you never know....enjoy your planned holiday for a start :-)
konaman
konaman
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Re: Menorca...what books?
Apr 20, 2017, 08:11
http://dchta.uib.cat/digitalAssets/193/193334_21.pdf
ryaner
ryaner
679 posts

Re: Menorca...what books?
Apr 20, 2017, 22:36
Sorry to hear that story Roy and of your friends' troubles. Carpe diem indeed.
ryaner
ryaner
679 posts

Re: Menorca...what books?
Apr 20, 2017, 22:36
Thanks for that.
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