Around 2500 BC a series of drystone enclosures were built in southern France. That at Boussargues consisted of drystone walls connecting a number of apsidal houses. The huts served as dwellings while sheep were kept inside the enclosure. The hut roofs were constructed using a corbel-vaulting technique, in which each layer of slabs overlaps the last.
Carbonized nuts have been found in the huts suggesting that wild food resources were still being used in the Copper Age. The settlement may not have been occupied year-round, since seasonal movement between upland and lowland pastures was part of the way of life of these people, for whom animal herding seems to have been more important than cultivation.
