The excavation of tomb XI in the Sant’Andrea Priu (fig. 1) necropolis also produced a Bell-beaker culture (2100-1800 B.C.) pottery fragment in addition to the obsidian arrowhead.

Fig. 1 - Domus de janas XI (by TARAMELLI 1919, fig. 41a, page 95).

The small fragment belings to the upper wall of a probably tronco-conical cup with a rounded side, an open vase with a grip (fig. 2)

For its decoration, the archaeologist A. Taramelli, leading the dig, exhibited the finding as diversified by “dotted incisions with a strip of counterposed triangles, limited by wolves’ teeth in a respected area; below is a strip of rhombuses outlined by dotted lines”.

Fig. 2 - Bell-beaker culture pottery fragment (by TARAMELLI 1919, fig. 53, p. 115).

The Eneolithic cultural facies of the Bell-beaker vase was widespread in Sardinia, in almost all funeral contexts, together with or overlapping the Eneolithic culture of Monte Claro and under the levels of the Ancient Bronze age of the Bonnannaro culture (figs. 3, 4).

Fig. 3 - Bell-beaker bowl and beaker on show at the Sanna Museum in Sassari (from http://www.museosannasassari.beniculturali.it/getImage.php?id=45)

Fig. 4 - Bell-beaker tetrapod vase on shown at the Antiquarium Arborense in Oristano found in the megalithic tomb at Bingia’e Monti di Gonnostramatza (from http://www.antiquariumarborense.it/it/Museo/Archivi/Reperti/Immagini/023_DSC_5468.jpg?__scale=w:600,h:450,t:1,p:6,c:3c2a1e).