List of metal age sites in Corsica

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Corsica has been colonized since the 8th millennium BC. Documented. The Corsican indigenous people, hunters and gatherers , were born around 6000 BC. Ousted by immigrating Neolithic people of the cardial or imprint culture . In Corsica, the megalithic culture began at a time when it had already ended in most parts of Europe or the metal age had begun. The sites of the Metal Ages are therefore particularly interesting in Corsica.

Chalcolithic

Towards the end of the Neolithic , the technique of cutting stone in tools and spearheads was refined, as numerous finds, often made under Neolithic demolitions , attest. The Terrina site near Aléria is a testament to the height of the Chalcolithic period.

Find places (in brackets the municipality):

Bronze age

Filitosa oppidum
Cucuruzzu Castle

In the Bronze Age, fortified settlements and mostly circular defense towers called Torren , which may have had a cultic function, emerged on Corsica . The Torre culture dissolved around 1600 BC. The cultures of the Neolithic from.

Castles and torres of the Torre culture (the associated municipality in brackets):

Sites without monuments:

Iron age

In the Iron Age, the location is poor. But the settlements existed

  • Capula,
  • Cuccuruzzu,
  • Modria
  • Araguina-Sennola near Bonifacio

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Pittioni in: Propylaea World History , Volume 1, p. 275.

literature

  • Center Regional de Documentation pédagogique: Prehistoire de la Corse . 1990, ISBN 2-86620-50-3