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Nice - Prehistory
The Ligurians, our ancestors :
Around 900 B.-C., Ligurian tribes peopled the coastal regions, to which Celts were added in 800. During the protohistoric age, two pre-Roman Ligurian Oppida occupied the site of Nice : the seat of the Vediantian Ligurians on the Bois Sacré hill above Cimiez overlooking the Paillon Valley and the other on the Castle hill. Whether they wer evolved neolithiscs or a primitive race rebels to all refinement is not known ...
Although they edified dry-stone "castelleras" on the pre-Alp hills, there were no decorative motifs, no trace of writing or any evidence of a Ligurian language.
In any case, it is certain that our Ligures, were present in our region before the arrival of the Greeks and that they seemed to be natives.
Museum of Human Paleontology - Terra Amata :
At the foot of the Mont-Boron hill, the reconstitution of a prehistoric habitat (Acheulian), documents on the settlement of elephant hunters in Nice, 400.000 years ago.
25, boulevard Carnot - 06300 Nice
Tél : 33 (0) 493 55 59 93
Open every day from 10 am to midday and from 2pm to 6pm,
except Mondays and Bank Holidays.
Free entrance
Institute of Ligurian studies
This institute in Bordighera conducts rational research without which the history of the Nice region would have remained fragmentary and less conclusive.
Bibliothèque de l’Institut d’Etudes Ligures,
Musée Bicknel, via Romana 39 bis
18012 Bordighera
Italy.
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Nice, a prehistoric site : The Mediterranean coast has been inhabited by man since the ancient paleolithic age with 2 sites : Terra Amata – one of the firts sites inhabited by man around 380 000 BC where nomadic hunters established their huts and the Lazaret cave where other nomads set up a comple hut some 200 000 years ago which was protected by the wind by a small wall. |
This region which is rich in marshy plains, wooded slopes and large mammals, proved to be an excellent hunting ground. The damp and mild climate on this palaeolithic coast enabled these first settlers to add to their diet the fruit from arbutus, lotus and olive trees and wild vines which grow in large quantities.
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The Ligurians, our ancestors :
Around 900 B.-C., Ligurian tribes peopled the coastal regions, to which Celts were added in 800. During the protohistoric age, two pre-Roman Ligurian Oppida occupied the site of Nice : the seat of the Vediantian Ligurians on the Bois Sacré hill above Cimiez overlooking the Paillon Valley and the other on the Castle hill. Whether they wer evolved neolithiscs or a primitive race rebels to all refinement is not known ...
Although they edified dry-stone "castelleras" on the pre-Alp hills, there were no decorative motifs, no trace of writing or any evidence of a Ligurian language.
In any case, it is certain that our Ligures, were present in our region before the arrival of the Greeks and that they seemed to be natives.
Museum of Human Paleontology - Terra Amata :
At the foot of the Mont-Boron hill, the reconstitution of a prehistoric habitat (Acheulian), documents on the settlement of elephant hunters in Nice, 400.000 years ago.
25, boulevard Carnot - 06300 Nice
Tél : 33 (0) 493 55 59 93
Open every day from 10 am to midday and from 2pm to 6pm,
except Mondays and Bank Holidays.
Free entrance
Institute of Ligurian studies
This institute in Bordighera conducts rational research without which the history of the Nice region would have remained fragmentary and less conclusive.
Bibliothèque de l’Institut d’Etudes Ligures,
Musée Bicknel, via Romana 39 bis
18012 Bordighera
Italy.
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