- We like: the questioning around this human species and its disappearance
- Age: for everyone, from 7 years old
- Duration: until January 7, 2019
- Place: Musée de l’Homme (Paris 16th)
Neanderthals, the exhibition on our ancestors, considered today as humans in their own right
Neanderthal, the exhibition of the Musée de l’Homme, offers a very successful insight into Neanderthal man who lived about 350,000 years ago and who mysteriously disappeared 30,000 years ago. This exhibition presents the daily life of this human species, a major figure in the human adventure, which has long been considered a primitive being. The days when Neanderthals were described as a thick brute, distant inferior cousin of the soulless human, are definitely over. It is now recognized as a part of humans in its own right. Neanderthals have bequeathed us a small part of their genetic heritage (between 1 and 4%), testifying to occasional crosses some 100,000 years ago in the Near East. In addition to the presentation of our distant ancestors, the exhibition also questions our own destiny in the face of environmental change.
An educational tour, divided into themed rooms:
The exhibition presents more than 260 objects (including real skull fossils of Neanderthals), very educational multimedia devices, and manipulations accessible to children from 7 years old. The exhibition is divided into 3 themes: habitat in the section entitled “The time of a day”, morphology and behaviour during the passage called “The time of a life”, then the exhibition tries to put this species into perspective with Homo Sapiens in the part entitled “The time of a species”. In the end, the exhibition allows you to discover the “typical day” of a man nearly 400,000 years ago, his environment, his lifestyle, his way of eating and dressing… .
