Découverte d'une industrie anté-acheuléenne en Provence orientale

Earthworks in the town of Vidauban (Var) made it possible to discover an archaic industry essentially composed of fashioned pebbles and flakes. The tools were found over a few square meters rooted in the bottom of the fluviatile formation composed of pebbles and sands. It constitutes the highest terrace of the middle Argens Valley. The archaic structure, alteration degree of pebbles which are identical to those of the terrace, together the topographic and stratigraphic position place the collected material in the early phase of the Middle Pleistocene or in the early Pleistocene. This new site is a supplementary proof of human occupation in southern Europe in the very early Paleolithic period