Terra Amata (archaeological site)

Depiction of a Terra Amata hut as postulated by H. de Lumley[1] (see text)

Terra Amata (Italian for "Beloved Land") is an archaeological site in open air located on the slopes of Mount Boron in Nice, at a level 26 meters (85 ft) above the current sea level of the Mediterranean. It was discovered and excavated in 1966 by Henry de Lumley. The site, originally on a prehistoric beach, contained tools of the Lower Paleolithic period, dated to about 400,000 BCE, as well as traces of some of the earliest domestication of fire in Europe.[2] The site now lies beneath an apartment building and a museum of prehistoric Nice, where some of the objects discovered are on display.

  1. ^ Musée de Préhistoire Terra Amata. "Le site acheuléen de Terra Amata" [The Acheulean site of Terra Amata]. Musée de Préhistoire Terra Amata (in French). Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  2. ^ de Lumley 2007, p. 211.