Bercy
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Location
Paris

Country
France

Year of Research
4500-2000 BC

Culture
  • The archaeological site of the Bercy is an Early Neolithic settlement (4500-2000 BC) located on the Seine River with in the city limits of the Paris, France.

  • Salvage excavations conducted in the 1990s at Bercy have recovered at least six dugout canoes , the earliest of in which has been carbon dated to 4500 BC.

  • This makes Bercy to make it as one of the earliest known records of the use of dugout canoes by hunter-gatherers.