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From 7000 to 6000 years before our era: Traces of family groups can be found not only on the large island (currently "la Pietra") but in the forests that covered the Ile Rousse basin. According to several historians the Balagne area was occupied at the time by one of the several tribes that shared the north of Corsica, the Skilibensioi tribe who lived in small agricultural family communities, dispersed throughout the region spreading between the Piedmont plain and the coast. They lived from hunting, fishing gathering and honey, etc. It was their descendents who erected the "E stantare" menhir statues at Lozari, the valley of Regino and Marsolino, virtually all of which were destroyed. Dolmens such as the "Trepiedi" near the Pub's - which in former times was called "E tavole di u diavulu" (The Devil's Tables) - would seem to connect these inhabitants of the north of Corsica with the Celts who occupied the western part of France and the south of England. (The south of Corsica with its sculpted menhirs would have been occupied by the Torreans).
1500 BC: Trader-navigators from the Phoenician city-state of Tyre, the island city which founded Carthage and so many other cities around the Mediterranean, built the city of Agila, sister city to the Etruscan city of Agylla, around the natural harbour of Scalo (the Ile Rousse breakwater). It had about 5,000 inhabitants and spread from the semaphore mountain in the east to the sheltered harbour. The Tyrians living in Agila were overcome by the Phoceans of Calaris (Galéria) in 500 BC in a sea battle involving more than 120 ships. The town was pillaged, razed to the ground and then abandoned by the victors. Their forces had been reduced by the battle, and so they quickly joined their compatriots who had founded Massilia (Marseilles) and Reggio to the south of Calabria. The latter, located directly opposite the Tyrian fortified city of Carthage, controlled the passage between Europe and Africa.