Stone Age Village Found in Eastern France

A mission of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) found a Neolithic village dating from 3000 to 3500 BC, in Marais de Saint-Gond, northeastern France.

According to a researcher at France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Remi Martineau, after 150 years of excavation archaeologists discovered the first stone instruments at the archaeological site. They have spotted 15 large mine spread over 450 hectares, 10 stone blocks to refine axes and fields planted by burning land so far.

Martineau noted that this discovery gives an exceptional picture of the social, economic and geographical organization of that era in history. It is an important milestone for understanding these Stone Age organizations, as no archaeological site has ever demonstrated Europe’s integrated way of coexistence.

The importance of this unearthed site is to illustrate the living methods of the Neolithic population, the villages’ inhabitants were engaged in farming and livestock husbandry and settled close to the source of water on top of an aquifer, which was revealed by an organized location of an entire structure in the village that embodies the community’s foundations in that period of time.

Source: Qatar News Agency