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Filitosa
41.7472° N, 8.8714° E
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Filitosa is a megalithic site in southern Corsica, France. The period of occupation spans from the end of the Neolithic era and the beginning of the Bronze Age, until around the Roman times in Corsica.
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Menhirs erected
c. 1500 BC
Site discovered
1946
Systematic excavations began
1954
Earliest habitation dated
c. 3300 BC
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