The "necropolis of hypogeums" of Talayotic time is a type of prehistoric place very abundant in the island of Minorca, but it is also probably the worst studied.

Generally, it consists in a group of artificial caves located in the walls of some ones of the ravines that, from the interior, go toward the southern coast (in some few cases, the northern coast) of the island, being distinguished different models of cavities

Type A: "Oven caves", constituted by small chambers of more or less circular or oval plan, with a chronology that goes from the Pretalayotic (2000-1400 B.C.) until the 1st century B.C.

Type B: "Big hypogeums", of monolobulate polilobulate plan and usually vertical entrance. It is frequent that they have sculpted architectural elements, exempt or attached to the walls of the chamber. Their chronology seems to be located between the 7th-6th centuries B.C. (Talayotic III) and the Romanization (from the 123 B.C.)

Type C: "Caves or natural cavities", closed outwardly with a wall of cyclopean type.

In this web we have followed the typologie described by Ll. Plantalamor in its work "L'arquitectura prehistòrica i protohistòrica de Menorca i el seu marc cultural".