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 | | The peasants of the New Stone (Neolithic) Age (4000 BC-2000 BC), on the other hand, left several thousand remarkable stone monuments in France, including the menhirs in Bretagne, the statue-menhirs of southern France, and the dolmens, or chamber tombs, of the Loire Valley, the Parisian Basin, and Champagne. |
 | | By about 800 BC the techniques of working with iron had been introduced by the Hallstatt people-warriors and shepherds who had spread from their native Alpine region into much of France (see Hallstatt Culture). |
 | | In 121 BC the Romans established a protectorate over the old Greek colony at Massalía (now Marseille) and then founded another settlement farther inland at Narbonne, which in turn became the center of the flourishing province of Gallia Narbonensis. |
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