France, Alpes Maritimes, parc national du Mercantour (Mercantour National Park), the Vallee des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) scattered with thousands of rupestral engravings of the Bronze Age, Pas de l'Arpette (Arpette pass), the engraving called the zigzag arm Anthropomorphous and a checkerboard-like figure that could symbolize cultivated fields at the top

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