Editing Lugdunum (section)

==Pre-Roman settlements and the area before the founding of the city==
[[File:Lyon murus 1.jpg|thumb|Gallic [[Murus Gallicus]], Lyon, [[La Tène culture]]]]
[[File:Gaul in the Time of Caesar.jpg|thumb|The site of Lugdunum along the border of [[Gallia Celtica|pre-Roman Gaul]] and the [[Roman province]] of [[Gallia Narbonensis]] in the south of modern-day France during the lifetime of [[Julius Caesar]]]]
 
Archeological evidence<ref>Mathieu Poux, Hugues Savay-Guerraz, ''Lyon avant Lugdunum'', Infolio éditions, 2003, p. 151 {{in lang|fr}}, {{ISBN|2-88474-106-2}}.</ref> shows Lugdunum was a pre-[[Gaul|Gallic]] settlement as far back as the [[Neolithic]] era, and a [[Gallia Celtica|Gallic]] settlement with continuous occupation from the 4th century BC, during the [[La Tène culture|La Tène]] period. It was situated on the [[Fourvière]] heights above the [[Saône]] river. There was trade with [[Campania]] for ceramics and wine, and use of some Italic-style home furnishings before the Roman conquest.

The Romans controlled the [[Roman Gaul|southern portion of Gaul]] by the 2nd century BC, founding the province of [[Gallia Transalpina]] in 121&nbsp;BC.<ref name=maddy>{{citation |last=Maddison |first=Angus |title=Contours of the World Economy 1–2030&nbsp;AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=a-JGGp2suQUC&pg=PT41 41] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-JGGp2suQUC |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2007 |isbn=9780191647581 }}.</ref> Gaul was conquered for the Romans by [[Julius Caesar]] between 58 and 53&nbsp;[[Anno Domini|BC]]. His description of the country in his ''[[Commentarii de Bello Gallico|De Bello Gallico]]'' is our principal written source of knowledge for pre-Roman Gaul, but there is no specific mention of the area in or around Lugdunum.