Caleca stone box
The stone box of Caleca ( French Coffre de Caleca ) is probably a plant of the Torre culture on the island of Corsica . It is located in the Corse-du-Sud department near Levie near the Castellu di Capula and Castellu di Cucuruzzu facilities on the Pianu di Levie granite plateau of the Alta Rocca, about 900 m high . Located about 1.5 km from the Cucuruzzu car park, it is not open to the public because it is on private property.
The stone box measures 3.2 × 1.7 m. Stone boxes and dolmens were in the 3rd millennium BC. Collective burial places on the island. However, the Caleca stone box is fundamentally different from the stone boxes of the Neolithic in southern Corsica. Neither arrowheads nor obsidian were found and the architecture of the box would have been for the 3rd millennium BC. Chr. Completely unusual. In addition, parts of bronze jewelry were found in the grave, similar to that which was customary for installations from the Iron Age , so that the burial site is similar to the others, but only at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. Was possibly used for a subsequent burial .
literature
- Eugène Bonifay (ed.): Prehistoire de la Corse . Center Regional de la Documentation Pédagogique, Ajaccio 1990, ISBN 2-86620-50-3 .
- Roger Grosjean : The Megalithic Culture of Corsica. In: Die Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik 64, 1964, H. 13, ISSN 0041-6347 , pp. 403-407.
Coordinates: 41 ° 42 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 9 ° 6 ′ 57.5 ″ E