Des éléments mobiliers du Centre-Ouest européen dans les sépultures corses à la fin du Premier âge du Fer insulaire (VIe-Ve s. a.C.)

Overview & Synopsis

The Corsican Iron Age benefits today of a renewed interest. This revival is reflected in academic works, archeological investigations and scientific meetings. A major issue consists in the gathering of chrono-cultural elements for the insular Protohistory. These markers should allow locating Corsica within an economic, political and cultural Mediterranean and European context. The exogenous artifacts have a powerful role to play in this reorganisation, providing that their borders are controlled. This contribution permits us to study a series of small metal ornaments discovered on the island and related to the Celtic continental area. After a critical inventory of the corpus, we propose to comment on the presence of these products in Corsica. At first, this report indicates an approachment of the artifacts at a local scale. Their presence is then replaced within the relationship of the island with the northern Etruria during the Iron Age. Finally, we propose to link those artifacts to human and artifact flows active between Central-western Europe and the Mediterranean region at the 6th century BC.