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. The objects are from excavations of an Ice Age site in Biesdorf-Habichtshorst in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf. They came from a teaching excavation in the Brandenburg town of Flatow in 2018. The live excavations in the museum are Thursdays and Fridays from 2 to 5 p.m., excluding holidays. The Research Area Biesdorf was conceived by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in cooperation with the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (State Monument Office).