Paris is 3000 years older
An Archeological dig has moved back the first known human occupation of Paris to about 7600 BC which is more than 3000 years older than earlier thought.The find suggests that Paris was first settled in the Mesolithic period between the two stone ages.According to a report an area about the size of a football field on the south western edge of the city close to the banks of the river Seine has yeilded thousands of flint arrowheads and fragments of animal bone.The site between the Paris ring road and the city's helicopter port is believed by archeologists to have been used nearly 10,000 years ago as a kind of sorting and finishing station for flint pebbles washed up on the banks of the river .The new exploration for preventive archeology pushes back the history of the city to the mysterious period between the Old and New stone ages.
Tags: Paris , Archeology , Mesolithic Period
