Filitosa

Filitosa is a megalithic site in southern Corsica, France. The time of occupation ranges from the finish of the Neolithic period and the start of the Bronze Age, until around the Roman occasions in Corsica. The site was found in 1946 by the proprietor of the land, Charles-Antoine Cesari. Precise unearthings began in 1954 by Roger Grosjean. Finds of arrow points and ceramics date most punctual inhabitation to 3300 BC. Around 1500 BC, 2-3 meter menhirs were raised.

They have been cut with portrayals of human faces, protection and weapons. Roger Grosjean figured the menhirs may have been raised to avoid an attack of a gathering of individuals called the Torreens. Anyway this was fruitless: the menhirs were thrown down, separated and reused at times as structure material by the Torreens. The Torreens constructed round stone structures on the site, known as torri, which may have been utilized as sanctuaries. The torri are strikingly all around protected. This hypothesis had been questioned by later works of F. De Lanfranchi, M.C. Weiss and Gabriel Camps.