France Human Geography
Thanks to the favorable environmental conditions, the French territory has attracted man since the most remote times. In the upper Paleolithic it hosted brilliant civilizations of hunters, whose presence is testified among other things by the wall paintings of the Dordogne; in the Neolithic dense agricultural settlements flourished in the clearings of the ancient Atlantic forest, in many areas including the Paris Basin. Due to its position of convergence within Europe, the cultural contributions that France received in those epochs…