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The orii are established in shelters often used since prehistoric times. In turn, habitats or burials, shelters for winter transhumance, agricultural warehouses, shelters for pigs, lambs or goats, refuge for bandits and then for resistance fighters, they have accompanied men throughout the centuries. Witnesses of the tormented history, the struggles, the sufferings and the labours of those who shaped, walked and worked this land, they keep within them all the secrets and mysteries of past centuries. The orii are located in tafoni. Tafoni are typical geological curiosities, born from the erosion of the rock which creates strange shapes and hollows, suitable shelters used by men since prehistoric times. Granite is composed of several minerals, the main ones being quartz, feldspars and black mica. Rainwater, which contains dissolved salts including sodium chloride, but also the action of the wind and the sun, and differences in temperature, will lead to the granular disintegration and destruction of the rock by flaking. Thus, as time goes by, the cavity forms and then expands, creating these strange shapes. The territory of Monaccia d'Auddè is to this day the oldest settlement in Corsica. The site of Canisgionu, a camp composed of several huts, dates from the Mesolithic period, 11,000 years ago. Hunting, fishing and gathering were the main activities at that time. They required a great knowledge of the environment. Plants, berries, honey, game, fish, rocks and wood were essential resources for the survival of the group. The animal hunted abundantly during the island's prehistory was a small rodent, the prolagus, a kind of "rat rabbit", which has since disappeared. The entire territory of Monaccia, from the coastal plains to the Cagna massif, passing through Cubia, was inhabited from the Mesolithic period. Around 5500 B.C., during the Neolithic period, agriculture spread. Cereals, wheat and barley were sown. It was at this time that sheep, goats, cows and pigs, recently domesticated in the Near East, were introduced to the island. The first clearings, the first crops, then began to modify the territory. These Neolithic village communities designed the network of roads, arranged and shaped a new territory that their descendants would complete, in successive layers, over the millennia, following in their ancestors' footsteps. The oriu, just a few steps from the path, invites you to contemplate the site, which is so full of history.

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