The video argues that Corsican Casteddu were first assigned to Sardinia's Nuraghic period, dated from about 1800 BC to the Roman arrival around 300 BC, with about 9,000 nuraghi built. It cites carbon-14 dating, Sardinian obsidian tools and artefact analysis to place Torrean origins roughly 1,000 years earlier, alongside Sardinia's earliest Proto-Nuraghic structures. The presenter says this weakens the idea that Corsican cyclopean buildings were imported from Sardinia and dates a northern division in Corsica to the start of the Bronze Age.
Video argues C-14 dating places Torrean towers before Sardinia's Nuraghi
Key facts
- The video dates Sardinia's Nuraghic period from about 1800 BC to the Roman arrival around 300 BC and says about 9,000 nuraghi were built.
- It says Corsican Casteddu were initially assigned to the same late Bronze Age period as the Nuraghi.
- The presenter argues that carbon-14 dating, Sardinian obsidian tools and artefact analysis place Torrean origins roughly 1,000 years earlier.
- The video says the Corsican Casteddu are at least contemporaneous with Sardinia's earliest Proto-Nuraghic constructions.
- The presenter argues this limits the likelihood that Corsican cyclopean buildings were imported from Sardinia.
- The video argues that a northern division in Corsica dates to the beginning, rather than the end, of the Bronze Age.
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Nuragic civilizationen.wikipedia.org
The Nuragic civilization, also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age.
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Sardinia: Land of the Mysterious Nuragic Civilizationclassicalwisdom.substack.com
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The Nuragic Tribes In Roman Timeshotelgabbianoazzurro.com
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Island of Giants: Sardinia's Nuragic Civilisationarchaeology-travel.com
Around 1800 BC, in the early Bronze Age, we start to see the signs of what would become called the Nuragic Civilisation or Culture; which lasted until about 600 ...
History & Advances in Radiocarbon Dating - Beta Analyticradiocarbon.com
In 1940, radiocarbon was discovered through its artificial creation at the Radiation Laboratory in UC Berkeley by Samuel Ruben and Martin ...
Fine-tuning radiocarbon dating could 'rewrite' ancient eventsnews.cornell.edu
Radiocarbon dating measures the decomposition of carbon-14, an unstable isotope of carbon created by cosmic radiation and found in all organic ...
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