 The island was populated since the Mesolithic ("Dame de Bonifacio") and the Neolithic by people who came from the Italian peninsula, especially the modern regions of Tuscany and Liguria.An important megalithic tradition developed locally since the 4th millennium BC.Reached, like Sardinia, by Polada culture influences in the Early Bronze Age, in the 2nd millennium BC Corsica, the southern part in particular, saw the rise of the Torrean civilization, strongly linked to the Nuragic civilization.