Event
The First Inhabitants
Period
on
October 5, 800
Location
Unknown location
Source
Paul-Louis Rousset, Au Pays de la Meije
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Event narrative
Long before La Grave became a village, people were already passing through the valley. The first inhabitants about whom we can speak with some degree of certainty were probably the Ligurians, an ancient people from Provence and Italian Liguria. They did not live here year-round: they came up in summer to hunt and went back down as soon as the season began to change.