A multidisciplinary study of landscape evolution in Burgundy, France by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
From the Telegraph, British claim the French may have exaggerated their age by 18,000 years under official pressure to promote them as the oldest cave paintings in the world.
From Expatica, historic Paris, the Gallic town of Lutetia captured by Julius Caesar in 52 BCE, lay not on the island in the centre of the modern French capital but in a suburb 10 kilometres to the west.
From the Chronicle, life-sized statue of a warrior discovered in southern France reflects a stronger cultural influence for the Etruscan civilization throughout the western Mediterranean region than previously appreciated.
Cutting stone or metallic tools, usually regarded as sickles or sickle elements from their morphology alone, are not necessarily linked to the harvest. They may have been used to cut any kind of plant material.
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