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Preventive archaeology

Excavation carried out ahead of construction, required by French law and much of European practice, in which sites are recorded and often removed rather than preserved where they are found.

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Burned Gallic wall under a Paris hospital courtyard strengthens the case for Lutetia on the Île de la Cité

Carbon-14 on the wall's timbers returns 200 to 10 B.C.E., a window wide enough to hold the 52 B.C.E. burning Caesar described and much else besides, and the officials quoted say function and chronology still need verifying.

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