Editing Arnhem (section)

=== Early history ===
[[File:Springer-Arnhem.png|thumb|left|Old city hall]]

The oldest archeological findings of human activity around Arnhem are two firestones of about 70,000 years ago. These come from the [[Stone Age]], when the [[Neanderthal]]s lived in this part of [[Europe]]. In Schuytgraaf, remnants of a hunters camp from around 5000 BC have been discovered. In [[Schaarsbergen]], twelve grave mounds were found from 2400 BC, which brought the so-called [[Neolithic Revolution]] to the area of Arnhem, which meant the rise of the farmers.

The earliest settlement in Arnhem dates from 1500 BC, of which traces have been found on the Hoogkamp, where the Van Goyenstraat is currently located. In the inner city, around the [[Sint-Jansbeek]], traces of settlement have been found from around 700 BC, while the first traces south of the [[Rhine]] have been found dating to around 500 BC, in the ''Schuytgraaf''.

Though the early tracks of settlements did show that the early residents of Arnhem descended from the forests on the hills, Arnhem was not built on the banks of the river Rhine, but a little higher along the Sint-Jansbeek. Arnhem arose on the location where the road between [[Nijmegen]] and [[Utrecht]] and [[Zutphen]] split. Seven streams provided the city with water, and only when the flow of the Rhine was changed in 1530, was the city located on the river.