Terra Amata
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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 Paleolithic 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.
As with other sites of possible human shelters, such as Grotte du Lazaret, the evidence is more conjectural than compelling.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Roebroeks, Wil, and Thijs van Kolfschoten (September 1994). "The earliest occupation of Europe: a short chronology". Antiquity 68 (260): 489-503. ISSN 0003-598X.
- ↑ Scarre, Chris (ed.) (2005). The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies. London: Thames & Hudson, p. 114. ISBN 0500285314.
