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Terra Amata
Nice, France
- Terra Amata provides the oldest known hard evidence of human-made shelter.
- The spot was prime Neolithic hunting ground, located on what at the time was a beach, near a freshwater source.
- A group returned there every year in the spring and summer, while chasing boar, deer, and other game.
- While at Terra Amata, the hunters built temporary huts made of tree branches braced by stones, each with a stone-ringed hearth on the inside.
- The repeat visits indicate that early humans, while nomadic, may have lived within relatively set territories.
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