Stantari

Stantari is an archaeological site in Corsica, located in 'Cauria', in the commune of Sartène. The alignments of Stantari are close to the dolmen of Funtanaccia, and the Rinaghju alignments lie 300 m to the south, so the site belongs to a cluster of megalithic remains in this part of southern Corsica.

The catalogue classes the site as a statue-menhir and gives a rough, typology-based date range of 4500 BCE to 1500 BCE. No excavation results, measurements or description of the stones are available, and it is not known how many stones stand in the alignments or whether they carry any carved features.

A statue menhir is a carved standing stone of the later European Neolithic, in which a vertical slab or pillar has a stylised human figure cut into it, sometimes with hints of clothing or weapons. They are most commonly found in southern and western France, Catalonia, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and the Alps, and France has the most records.

A well-known site elsewhere on Corsica is Filitosa, in the south of the island, a megalithic site occupied from the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age until about Roman times. Arrowheads and pottery date its earliest habitation to 3300 BCE, and around 1500 BCE menhirs 2 to 3 metres high were erected there. This is background for the island's megalithic monuments in general and not a statement about Stantari itself.

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