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

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 us to identify levels of habitats and a burial. These occupations left 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.