How Do Archaeologists Work?

Interactive exhibition in the Neues Museum with live excavations carried out by archaeology students at Freie Universität Berlin, open until April 19

No 006/2020 from Jan 08, 2020

An interactive exhibition in the Neues Museum shows how archaeologists proceed with excavations, chronologically classify their finds, and recreate living environments from past times. Visitors can experience the reconstruction of archaeological finds live, for example at so-called block excavations, which are carried out in the museum by archaeology students from Freie Universität Berlin. In block excavations, blocks of earth containing archaeological objects are taken out of the ground and excavated later in detail under laboratory conditions. ...

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