From the excavation site to the museum window: the techniques of archaeology and paleoanthropology

Name: From the excavation site to the museum window: the techniques of archaeology and paleoanthropology
Start: 2022-09-18T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée d'Histoire Naturelle et d'Ethnographie

Enjoy a presentation with experiences of archaeological work and related to the museum’s collections, by speakers from the Inrap.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 15:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

©B. Dottori, Inrap - Le mur en cours de dégagement sur le parvis de la collégiale de Colmar

Enjoy a presentation with experiences of archaeological work and related to the museum’s collections, by speakers from the Inrap.

Measure, analyze, observe... What are the methods of archaeo-anthropologists and paleo-anthropologists for the study of human bones and fossils found during excavations?
Some experiments to discover and try: calculate the cranial capacity of a fossil, measure the size of an individual from his skeleton. And when is the estimate of sex from the bones?
Exchange with Inrap stakeholders.

About the location

Musée d'Histoire Naturelle et d'Ethnographie

11 rue Turenne, 68000 Colmar

Haut-Rhin
Grand Est

Located at the heart of the old city in a beautiful historic building(ship), the natural history museum and of Ethnography, become «Museum of France» in 2003, presents in about ten rooms on two floors, very rich and amazing collections. So mammial, reptiles, birds, insects of the region are next(go alongside) to beautiful exotic sorts(species) of Africa, of America.. You will plunge into the world fascinating fishes, discover the geology of the region and of the planet with minerals, rocks and fossils. You will be able also to admire the vestiges of past and the world of Egypt.