We are delighted to invite you on Saturday, November, 22nd 2025 at 2:30 p.m., free admission, for a conference on “The prolagus in Corsica, from its emergence to its disappearance, an ongoing story thanks to archaeology” by Vianney Forest, veterinary biologist and archaeozoologist, INRAP, member of UMR 5608-TRACES

Corsica, like many Mediterranean islands, was a continent in itself, inhabited by a distinctive fauna compared to nearby mainland. When humans discovered the Isle of Beauty, the largest mammal was a cousin of the rabbit and hare: the Sardinian prolagus. This animal was one of the main sources of meat for the island’s first inhabitants, before the arrival of herds of domestic animals at the beginning of the Neolithic period. Less hunted thereafter, the animal coexisted with humans until the end of the Roman period. During the 6th and 7th centuries AD, prolagus bones disappeared definitively from archaeological assemblages, while traces of later survival remained in Sardinia. This conference invites you to rediscover this former inhabitant of Corsica and Sardinia, and to explore the mystery behind its sudden extinction.

For more information, contact the museum at 04 20 19 02 40 or by email at musee@mariana-lucciana.fr.