- Saint-Acheul
French commune|name=Saint-Acheul
x = 139
y = 35
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Amiens
canton=Canton de Bernaville
insee=80697
cp=80370
maire=M. Marc Bettefort
mandat=2001 -2008
intercomm=Communauté de communes du Bernavillois
alt moy=55 m
alt mini=37 m
alt maxi=110 m
hectares=304
km²=3,04
sans=22
date-sans=1999
dens=7|Saint-Acheul is a commune in the
Somme "département" in thePicardie region ofFrance .Geography
Situated some 23 miles north of
Amiens , on the junction of the D933 and D99e roads, only a few hundred yards from the border with thePas-de-Calais Population
History
Although a small commune, Saint-Acheul is well known to archaeologists, as it gives its name to the
Acheulean industry of stone tool users in Europe, Africa and Asia. The earliest human activity in the area, from theLower Palaeolithic , was some of the first earlyprehistoric evidence ever identified.In the middle of the 19th century,flint tools had been found by Dr.Jean-Paul Rigollot [ "Instruments en silex trouvés à Saint-Acheul" (1854).] Noted French archaeologistsJean Albert Gaudry andGabriel de Mortillet also investigated the site, the latter coining the term Acheulean for the tools that were discovered. A schoolteacher, one Victor Cormont, discovered a new deposit in a quarry near Saint-Acheul [Pierre Pierrard, "Histoire du Nord", Hachette 1978 p. 17] .
In the first century AD the Romans settled the area and a monastery was built in St Acheul during the Middle Ages.Saint Ulphia was a hermit here during the 8th century. clree also
Communes of the Somme department External links
* [http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/co_navigation.co_page?nivgeo=C&codgeo=80697&theme=ALL&typeprod=ALL&lang=FR&quelcas=LISTE Saint-Acheul on the Insee website] fr
Notes
*"This article is based on the original and the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on March 22nd 2008."
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