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The scientists have determined the age of Paris

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Paris has appeared to be more than 3 thousands years older than before. The findings from the archaeological digs that have been recently presented in Paris are telling that the first signs of human activity are dated approximately by the year 7600 B.C. in the mesolite epoch of the middle Stone Age. Thousands of elf-bolts and human bones fragments have been found at the football field-sized square in the south-west of the city near the Seine river.

According to the archaeologists, the area between the Paris ring road and the heliport of the city has been used 10 thousands years ago as the sorting and processing point of the flint stones that were washed out to the shore by the river. When the digs are over, this place will be occupied by a garbage sorting and processing plant for the results of the activity of two million of Paris citizens in the XXI-th century.

The oldest human dwelling that has been previously found in the Paris area is dated approximately by the year 4500 B.C. - this is a village on the Seine shores, whose inhabitants were hunters and fishermen - in Bercy near the Lyon train station. New discoveries made by Inrap, the French governmental agency that performs "preventive" archeology on the places where a construction is planned, are shifting the beginning of the city history to the mysterious period between palaeolith and late Stone Age.

The sector in the 15-th district of Paris in a mile from the Eiffel Tower has remained intact because of the silt due to frequent Seine floods. The archaeologists suppose that it has been used for many centuries during the mesolite probably only for two weeks at once as the place for searching and sorting of the flint stones to make the elf-bolts out of these. Also larger instruments out of granite have been found during the digs. There is an almost ideal sphere of a billiard ball size and long stone shovels that have been probably used to create poles for the arrows or to flay the prey.

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Article Submitted On: July 2, 2008