Henri de Lumley knows that the seaside camp was occupied during late spring from an analysis of pollen contained in the occupants' fossilized faeces. The ochre may be one of the earliest evidences of art even if it is body art. 126 and . At Terra Amata, in present-day Nice, we have evidence of seasonal habitations on coastal dunes. There are ovoid arrangements of stones with regularly spaced post holes.
Hearths occur in holes or on stone slabs sheltered by low stone walls.
Food residues include elephant, deer, boar, ibex, rhinoceros, small mammals, and marine shells and fish. What may well be the first discovered ruins of Middle Palaeolithic dwellings have been found at open-air sites. At Molodova I these consist of an oval ring of mammoth bones, some 10 metres by 7 metres in exterior dimensions, containing extremely dense stone artifact and food-bone remains and fifteen hearths. The mammoth bones have been interpreted as weights to hold down a superstructure of streched skins over a light wooden framework. Molodova V. At Orangia, in South Africa, semi-circular rubble walls ahve been interpreted as supports for windbreaks.