- Matteo Milletti –
Figure 13.8 Grotta Alessandro, beads of spirally twisted wire (Museo Archeologico, Florence).people, therefore, while remaining in continuous contact with the other bordering
areas, remain strongly anchored in local traditions, even in the funeral ritual that,
with certain exceptions, such as the individual cremation of San Simeone, Ajaccio
(Doazan 1967), remains that of collective inhumation up to the period of full
Hellenism. On the other hand, if Strabo, about two and a half centuries after the
Roman conquest, defi nes the natives who inhabit the mountains as “wilder than the
animals” (Geography 5.2.7), we hypothesize that the process of Romanization has
concentrated primarily on the coastal ranges of the island, pivoting likewise on Aleria
and, later, the colony of Mariana, located some tens of kilometers further north.
In conclusion, the archaeological evidence in our possession, however fl awed, permits us
to perceive an uninterrupted common thread of contacts between Corsica and Etruria
over the course of centuries, amassed by a dense network of common interests and by
inclusion in the same policies of seaborne trade.
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