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TERRA AMATA
Terra Amata is an archaeological site near the French town of Nice.
It was an open site with finds of Acheulean flint tools dating it to the Lower Palaeolithic and arrangements of stones at the site have been interpreted as being the foundations of huts or windbreaks. If correct, this interpretation would make them some of the earliest examples of human habitation ever found. It is equally likely that that the stones were naturally deposited through stream flow, soil creep or some other natural process however.[1]
As with other sites of possible human shelters, such as Grotte du Lazaret, the evidence is more conjectural than compelling.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Roebroeks, W and van Kolfshoten, T., 1994, The earliest occupation of Europe - a short chronology, Antiquity 68, 489-503
- ↑ Scarre, C (ed.) (2005). The Human Past, p114, London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0500285314.
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