chapter 1 3: Etruria and CorsicaFigure 13 .6 Fibulae o f Corsican type: 1. Val di Cornia (Maggiani 1979); 2. Figa La Sarra, Olmeto
(Cesari 2 0 0 1); 3. Pinzu a Vergine, Barrettali (Museo Archeologico, Florence).F ig u re 1 3 .7 Cagnano, fibula o f Certosa type with tweezers (Museo Archeologico, Florence).In Corsica Aleria represents an exceptional rather than a paradigmatic case and it would be
wrong to extend the considerations expressed above to the rest of the island. The impact of
the Etruscan culture is evident only in the colony and neighboring areas, while elsewhere
it is much less marked, although our limited knowledge of Archaic sites on the island
(ceramic imports, transport amphorae and bucchero are reported for the village of Cozza
Torta in the G u lf of Porto-Vecchio, Milanini 2 0 12 ) do not allow us to make definitive
judgments, but also in the region of Cap Corse, closer to the coast of Etruria, the offerings
in collective burials show a clear preference, almost complete in the ceramic vases, less
generalized in the sets of personal ornaments (Fig. 13.8), for objects of local tradition,
though, since the mid-fifth century BC, there seems to be a gradual increase in the incidence
of bronzes coming from Etruria and the Celtic areas of northern Italy. In contrast, in one of
the main funerary contexts of the south of the island, the burial of Tappa 2, Porto-Vecchio,
the pottery deposited is strictly local (Milanini et al. 2 0 10 ) and the prevalence of island
products among the Archaic and Classical materials is also found in other tombs of the
southern sector, such as those of Nulachiu and San Ciprianu (Pasquet 1979). The local
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