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Figure 13.3 Fibulae adarco serpeggiante (“with serpentine-bow”): 1-3. Corsica, provenance unknown
(Delpino 1981); 4. “La Teppa” (Magdeleine, Milleliri, Ottaviani 2003); 5. “La Teppa” (Museo
Archeologico, Florence).Figure 13.4 Peninsular axes: 1. Castifao-Corte; 2. Matson Perragi (Giardino 1995).To date, there are no known imports of Corsican products of the ninth and eighth centuries
b c in Etruria, but it is possible that archaeological research will soon fill this gap. More
generally, there is a reflection of the contacts with the Nuragic and Corsican environment,
in a framework of mutual influences that must have invested not only the handicrafts
but also the sphere of customs and local behaviors. This has been hypothesized for some
peculiarities of burial customs in the area of Populonia (Bartoloni 2002; Bartoloni 2003),
such as the early appearance of the practice of inhumation, in some cases with collective
ritual and burials deposited in natural cavities, as illustrated on the mainland in the
shelter of Biserno, San Vincenzo-LI (Fedeli et al. 1989) and, more frequently, on the
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