News: In the footsteps of the oldest human occupations in Northern Europe in Abbeville (Somme)

The Inrap surveyed a plot on Rue du Soleil Levant, in the immediate vicinity of the Carpentier quarry, classified as Historical Monuments since 1983, in which the discovery of bifaces had contributed in the middle of the nineteenth century to the proof of "the Antediluvian Man" by Jacques Boucher de Perthes. In the sediments brought by the Somme, the remains of large herbivores and some artifacts that testify to the human presence more than half…