Occupation and Environmental Context of a Prehistoric and Protohistoric Settlement on the Corsican East Coast

Occupation and Environmental Context of a Prehistoric and Protohistoric Settlement on the Corsican East Coast

[SHS:ARCHEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory

Bronze Age

Iron Age

ceramics

Corsica

environment

habitat

Mediterranean

Neolithic

obsidian

burial

The site of Costa di u Monte is on the east coast of Corsica. It occupies a privileged position within the Tyrrhenian area, in a region where for the island, the archeological sites are rare and little studied. This settlement, very wide, was occupied during the Neolithic, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and until the Contemporary Time. For the prehistoric and protohistoric periods, the excavations enabled to identify levels of habitats and a burial. These occupations left an abundant material, ceramic, lithic (obsidian) and metal in particular. These vestiges attest to the exploitation of the immediate environment of the site but also to the existence of relationships between other Mediterranean areas.

Marini, Nathalie

The First International Symposium on Environment Identities and Mediterranean Area, July 10-13 2006, Corte-Ajaccio, IEEE France section

2006-07-13

ENG

conference proceeding

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00138444

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/13/84/44/PDF/Costa_di_u_Monte_-_N._Marini.pdf