Qualla: Cala Morell Settlement https://qualla.com/cala-morell-settlement en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/cala-morell-settlement-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cala Morell Settlement https://qualla.com/cala-morell-settlement Cala Morell Settlement: Introduction https://qualla.com/cala-morell-settlement/ Photo credit Antoni Ferrer, CC BY-SA 4.0. The people who lived on this clifftop, thirty-five meters above the Mediterranean, appear never to have eaten the sea. Excavators sifting through the Bronze Age settlement of Cala Morell found bones of goats, sheep, pigs, and above all cattle, along with pottery, grinding stones, and bone tools. What they did not find was fish. Not a single fishbone, no mussel shells, no crab claws, nothing at all from the water crashing at the foot of their headland. It is one of the small mysteries of Menorcan prehistory, and it turns out to be true of every ancient site on the island, not just this one.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/cala-morell-settlement-wp/sp4g-cala-morell-settlement-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cala Morell Settlement: A People Who Never Ate the Sea https://qualla.com/cala-morell-settlement/ Photo credit xenxun from Barcelona, CC BY 2.0. The complete absence of marine remains is genuinely startling. These were islanders, perched on a coastal headland with the water in constant view, and yet the evidence says they fed themselves entirely from the land. Their diet came from the herds they raised, cattle most of all...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/cala-morell-settlement-wp/sp4g-cala-morell-settlement-a-people-who-never-ate-the-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Cala Morell Settlement: A Fortress by Nature and by Hand https://qualla.com/cala-morell-settlement/ Photo credit Sa monea, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cala Morell sits on a promontory that closes off the northeast side of its bay, and the site is built to be defended. On the landward side, where the headland joins solid ground, the inhabitants raised a dry-stone wall to seal off approach. On the seaward side they built nothing ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/cala-morell-settlement-wp/sp4g-cala-morell-settlement-a-fortress-by-nature-and-by-hand.mp3 0:06 3 full Cala Morell Settlement: Twelve Stone Homes https://qualla.com/cala-morell-settlement/ Photo credit Public domain. Scattered across the headland are around a dozen dwelling navetas, the distinctive Bronze Age houses found on Menorca and Mallorca, plus an enigmatic circular structure of large stone slabs raised on the highest point. Excavation of two of the houses, numbered 11 and 12, has begu...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/4/g/cala-morell-settlement-wp/sp4g-cala-morell-settlement-twelve-stone-homes.mp3 0:06 4 full Cala Morell Settlement: Between Islands https://qualla.com/cala-morell-settlement/ Photo credit Equip Entre Illes, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cala Morell is still giving up its secrets. After a first survey by the Museum of Menorca in 1996, archaeologists partnered the Municipal Museum of Ciutadella with the History Museum of Manacor on Mallorca to launch a project called Entre Illes, Between Islands. It studies two fo...

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