SECOND IRON AGE HUMAN LANDSCAPES IN THE NORTHERN TYRRENIAN SEA AREA: UPDATED ANALYSIS BETWEEN LIGURIA AND CORSICA
SECOND IRON AGE HUMAN LANDSCAPES IN THE NORTHERN TYRRENIAN SEA AREA: UPDATED ANALYSIS BETWEEN LIGURIA AND CORSICA

Summary/Abstract: Investigating the main issues about continuities or discontinuities dynamics in the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea area may provide a particular optic to value the Second Iron Age human landscapes. In the Eastern Liguria, the Second Iron Age sites often occupy places already inhabited in the Late Bronze Age; in Central and Western Liguria they choose places of human settlements ex novo. All the main settlements live between the end of the V and III century BC. The Corsican landscape, better known for the Bronze Age and progressively considered also for the human presence in the Second Iron Age, reveals some more detailed trends, although in many case also here relying upon survey evidence. Here one remarks peculiarity in settlements distribution along the main tracks, as well as it is sometimes revealed by the building techniques of the walls. The main occupation of these sites is set between III and the I century BC: the increasing of the occupied high-places usually provided of artificial fortifications during these centuries might attest a climate of social tension due to internal and external factors. Linking these archaeological evidences with the historic happenings during the Punic Wars, especially the Second one, and the Roman campaigns against the Liguri tribes, we can draw some connections between historical events and archaeological data.

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