Made in africa

harp 21. marca 2005

20 January – 3 April, Admission free
The oldest objects in the British Museum are stone tools made in Africa nearly two million years ago. They were found at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.Such tools were used for cutting meat, chopping and shaping wood, cleaning animal skins and smashing bones – they are the products of the first technological invention.

They mark the gradual evolution of creative intelligence among early humans and the dawn of cultural life. About a million years ago, early humans spread out of Africa into Asia and Europe. These tools remind us that human technology, culture and the human species all began in Africa.

Source: British Museum

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British Museum – Wealth of africa

20 January – 26 June 2005, Admission free
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The Africa Garden

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The ‘Queen of the Night’ Relief

Old Babylonian, 1800-1750 BC
From southern Iraq
A major acquisition for the British Museum’s 250th anniversary
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harp 4. februára 2004

Robben Island, South Africa

Laura Robinson, ICOMOS South Africa
Laura Robinson is the Director of the Capetown Heritage Trust in South Africa and a member of ICOMOS South Africa. While visiting Melbourne briefly this week, she gave a talk about the conservation work at Robben Island.

harp 16. septembra 2003

2003-2004 University course

EPA’s university courses are programmed every three academic years. The beginning of the next course in preventive conservation is scheduled for the end of 2003. The course is validated by the University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne and the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin.

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