Corsican Casteddu were initially assumed to match Sardinia's Nuraghic period (roughly 1800–730 BC, with about 9,000 nuraghi built). But carbon-14 dating plus Sardinian obsidian tool analysis revealed the Torrean origins run roughly 1,000 years earlier — contemporaneous with Sardinia's earliest Proto-Nuraghic structures. This weakens the theory that Corsican cyclopean building was simply imported from Sardinia, and pushes Corsica's cultural divide to the start of the Bronze Age.
Carbon-14 dating shows Torrean towers predate Sardinian Nuraghi
Key facts
- The Nuraghic period in Sardinia runs from 1800 BC to the Roman arrival in 300 BC
- About 9,000 Nuraghi were built in Sardinia during this period
- Corsican Casteddu were initially dated to the same late Bronze Age period as Nuraghi
- Carbon-14 dating, discovery of Sardinian obsidian tools, and analysis revealed the Torrean had origins 1,000 years earlier
- The Corsican Casteddu are at least contemporaneous with the earliest Sardinian Proto-Nuraghic constructions
- This finding limits the likelihood that Corsican cyclopean constructions were imported from Sardinia
- The northern division of Corsica occurred at the beginning of the Bronze Age, not its end
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Nuragic civilizationen.wikipedia.org
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