France Prehistoric People in France have a little over a million years ago. Found in the Central Area and in the south of France grossly performed stone tools indicate that the people, who did not fire, earned their consumption of flora and fauna, which are quite different from now. Since 2.4 million years ago Ice Age in the northern hemisphere reached its climax.
The first residents of the future of France (Homo erectus and then Homo sapiens archaïque) lived in harsh conditions in boreal forests and steppes in the Arctic fauna, and during periods of warming, in the forests, where dwelling bears, deer, wild boar, roe deer and the so-called polorogie animals (cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes). Approximately 10000 80s BC. et. warming has created favourable conditions for life Homo sapiens'a (modern man).
People obitavshie small groups learned to build homes and to farm. There iron pieces and the first beginnings of art. In mid-thousand I BC. et. expanses of France and neighbouring countries settled by Celtic tribes, which are known by their Roman name-gally.
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