Terra Amata Site

Paleolithic settlement, occupied 427,000 BCE –364,000 BCE, located in Nice, France; tools found dated to the paleolithic 380,000 B.C.E.; the site yielded thr first evident traces of a hearth inidcating the use of fire by Paleolithic Homo erectus or Neandertal humans in Europe. Remains of oval shaped huts found at the site measured 7-15 meters in length and 1-6 meters in width. The site is associated with the Homo erectus ancestor.

Elevation is 30 meters (100 feet) above the Mediterranean Sea shore.

Materials: base: stone oval or ring; wood columns and ridge pole; wood purlins; thatch or animal skin roof.

Data for CG model:
1. de Lumley, Henry (ed.), 2009. La Grande Histoire des premiers hommes euro- péens, , Paris-New York: Odile Jacob,.
2. Villa, Paola, 1983, Terra Amata and the Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of southern France. Berkeley: University of California Press.
3. Scarre, Chris (ed.) 2005. The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Develop- ment of Human Societies. London: Thames & Hudson.