Prehistoric remains of Cucuruzzu, in Corsica. The site belongs to the Torrean culture, also appellated as "Torrean civilization", although we can't speak of urban development, making the appellation "civlization" notapplicable, in its etymological sense. The Torrean culture...

...developed in southern Corsica at the Bronze Age and has many similarities with the Nuraghic culture of Sardinia. Various arguments have been put forth over the primacy of one or the other culture, but the dating of the"torri" and that of the nuraghes does not give us...

...a clear answer, since both types of buildings are dated at the same time. The most important feature of this culture, in my opinion, is the emergence of the statue menhirs. They are quite similar to the menhirs we know from Gaul and other Celtic areas, but they have been...

...modified so that a human figure is represented on them. Although the most common interpretation of the statue menhirs is that they represent chieftains armed with swords and horned helmets, I would argue for a religious/ritualistic connotations, thet they depict deities...

..and/or heroes. Other statue menhirs don't depict anthropomorphic figures, but other symbols, like standalone swords. But, even if we accept that the statue menhirs represent a real-life person, they can also act in a religious/ritualistic way, id est to be utilized...

...for reincarnation rites. Another interesting feature is the torri themselves. Although the word "torri" is a modern term, those structures do have a shape like a tower. According to the pioneer of research in the prehistory of Corsica, Roger Grosjean, the torri are...

...sacred precincts associated with fire veneration and worship of the dead. Is he correct? Well, he is correct in the sense that "worship of fire" is tied to its symbolic meaning, as life-force, which is rekindled at the time of the initiation/reincarnation. Of course,...

...this symbolic role of fire is common all over Europe. As for the worship of the dead, it's plain what it refers to. The dead are our ancestors, us in our previous lives. And, as you see, this very correct interpretation of torri came from a scholar, proving us that not all...

..scholars are like some (((VERY INDO-EUROPEAN))) e-beggars.

The closest relatives of the Torrean culture are the Nuraghis of Sardinia, but also archaeological cultures in the Balearics. All those islands of the Western Mediterranean had much more inmportance in...

...the Bronze Age compared to historical times. And, despite the fact that we would thinkmthat those cultures were isolated, there is evidence of trade between Torrean culture and Mycenean Greeks, once more bearing testament to how connected our various peoples and cultures...

...were during the Bronze Age. All those cultures, all those testaments of the Native European man's genius and craftiness, should not be lost to oblivion.

Thanks for reading.

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