If the urban area from Arles current so far did not reveal any prehistoric vestige, of many sites in the neighborhoods constitute the index of a very old human establishment. Thus the hypogean ones of Fontvieille testify to a brilliant civilization at the time Neolithic era.

Last eminence before the sea, isolated in the middle of the marshes, the modest hill calcareous of 25 meters very early attracted the Man. It is known that ligure tribes already occupy it at the dawn of I ^er thousand-year-old before J. - C. the presence of the river and the proximity of the sea in addition let suppose rich commercial links with the Phoenician navigators, omnipresent in the Mediterranean at that time.