#Museum of Prehistory

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Berlin: Neues Museum

The Neues or New Museum is four stories and contains Egyptian artifacts on the first couple of floors. The 3rd and 4th floors are dedicated to Germanic history. From pre-history to a bit more modern. The gem of this museum is the bust of Nefertiti. The bust may be down an eye but it feels as if she is watching. There is clear quartz over the remaining eye, the light glinting off it gives a…

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The Utroba Cave, in Bulgaria, is a natural horizontal fissure in a rock that has been further cut and shaped by human hands more than 3000 years ago to resemble a womb. At midday, light seeps into the cave through an opening in the ceiling, projecting an image of a phallus on to the floor

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-the-stone-age/

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Mesolithic Harpoon Head, 4500 BCE, Stewartry Museum, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

This is a 6500 year old harpoon made from a Red Deer antler and found in the River Dee. It is of a similar type of harpoon to those found in Mesolithic caves or rock shelters near Oban. This piece has been carbon dated to around 4500 BCE.

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Fossil remains of an American Lion. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits.

Credit: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panthera_leo_atrox_Page.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

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Ornamented pottery in the "Fire Flame" style, dating to the Middle Jomon period (ca. 2500-1500 BCE). Found at Sasayama, Niigata Prefecture, Japan; now in the Tokyo National Museum.

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Vienna Natural History Museum (NHMW)

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Uviéu, Asturies, 22-03-24

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On the left: Ornamented Trypillian dishes, 4th millennium BCE, Tomashivka village, Cherkasy region, Ukraine

On the right: Pot, Catacomb (Yamna) culture, 3rd-4th millenia BCE, Shadrivka village, Dnipro region, Ukraine

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Europa Recens Descripta

William Blaeu

1640

Most histories of Europe start with Greece. Though the area saw the continent’s first literate societies, human settlement here has far deeper roots than the Minoan or Mycenaean civilisations.

For centuries we could only grope in the dark at times such long past, predating any written sources, but the ongoing revolution in the science of history has begun to lift back the veil on humanity’s deep past. Where once we had to piece together an incomplete picture from scattered fragments of pottery or the ruins of burial mounds, now we have the ability to trace genealogies through millennia, reveal old enemies are even older than we thought, and track the influence of climatic change on the populations of ancient humans.

Europe’s prehistory began long before Homo sapiens first walked the African sands and ended when writing first emerged on the islands of the Aegean. From those first scripts carved into the rock came a mythology of origin: Homer, Hesiod, and the other poets sang of a primordial time when gods and heroes once walked the Earth. We’ve never lost the urge to look back and wonder where we came from. Though the story is far from complete, modern science has given us the beginnings of an answer.

M. E. Rothwell here. As always, thanks for letting me into your inbox. If you’re a new subscriber to Cosmographia, welcome! This newsletter is about exploring the world and its beauty, via history, myth, and art.

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Archeon, Nederland - 2017

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National Museum of Denmark

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Lurs

The lur horns are the distinctively Nordic wind instruments. They were used to create an atmospheric background of sound for Bronze Age rituals. All the lurs were found in bogs and are from the period 1200 - 700 BC.

- Danish History Museum, Copenhagen, Danish Prehistory Exhibit

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A Neanderthal footprint preserved in the sediments of the Grotte di Toirano, Liguria, Italy. The last Neanderthals left the stage around 40,000 years ago.

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-the-stone-age/

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Iron Age Curvilinear Design Torcs and Fragments, The British Museum, London

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Cast of a Livyatan skull. Extinct species of whale.

Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa

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Clovis point, fashioned from chert and belonging to the Clovis culture (so named from early 20th century archaeological finds near Clovis, New Mexico) that spread throughout North America following the Last Glacial Period. Clovis points are distinguished by manufacture through the pressure flaking technique and by fluting near the base. Manufactured between 11,500 and 9,000 BCE and found in Sevier County, Utah; now in the Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City.