French History Timeline Note: Graphic Intensive Originally prepared for: http://www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/dafein/507/syllabus.htm Primary resources: Media History Project Timeline Prehistory ( -200BC) Gallery Cro-Magnon engraving, may be lunar notation. Blanchard, France Sculptures made by Cro-Magnon man, found in Dordogne, France Cave Paintings at Lascaux Homo Erectus , who lived around 950,000 B.C., was the first human found in France. With the end of the Ice Age, prehistoric man began to settle down in more permanent agricultural settlements (Neolithic Revolution). The Celts came from Central Europe and settled in Gaul around 2500 B.C. The Celts were iron workers and dominated Gaul until 125 B.C., when the Roman Empire began its reign in southern France. 950,000-80,000 BC: Homo Erectus (400,000 B.C. Discovery of Fire) 80,000-30,000 BC: Neanderthal 33,000-10,000 BC: Homo Sapiens - Cro Magnon Man BC: Cro-Magnon notation, possibly of phases of the moon, carved onto bone, discovered at Blanchard, France 4,000-2,500 BC: | |
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