The Scientists Have Determined the Age of Paris

Paris is turned out to be far more than three thousand years older. The archaeological excavations, the findings of which had been lately presented in Paris, indicate that the very first indicators of human activity refer around to the year 7600 B.C., to Mesolithic epoch, the middle Stone Age. On the region larger than a football field, on the South-West of the city, by the sides of Seine River, have been identified thousands of flint stone arrowheads and fragments of human bones.

According to the archaeologists, the location among the ring road of Paris and city's helicopter port, practically ten thousand years ago was utilised as the sorting and processing point of silicon stones, washed ashore. When the excavations finish, on this location will seem the plant for sorting and processing the wastes, which are thrown away by two millions of Parisians in the XXI-th century.

The oldest human settlement, located earlier inside the limits of Paris, is dated about to the year 4500 B.C. - this is a village on the side of Seine, the inhabitants of which have been hunting and fishing, in Bercy, close to Gare de Lyon. New discoveries, produced by Inrap, the French governmental agency, occupying with "preventive" archeology on the places, have been the building is planned, move the starting of the city's history back to the mysterious period involving Paleolithic and Neolithic ages.

The location in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, about mile away from the Eiffel tower, had been preserved due to silt, due to the fact of the typically floods of Seine. The archaeologists suppose that it was applied by means of a lot of ages in the Mesolithic age, may possibly be just two weeks in one go, as a spot for finding and sorting of silicon stones for producing arrowheads of them. In the course of the excavations also the larger tools created of silicon have been located. Involving them is a ball of just about best shape, of the size of billiard one and lengthy modest shovels, which possibly have been made use of for generating arrow staffs or for flaying the animal bulks.

Paris has also a spot of interest that will certainly also represent a enormous archaeological and historical interest for our descendants. This spot is currently open for touristic visits nowadays and is generally referred to as "the most horrible museum of the globe".

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