neanderthal

The new museum also operates as a research establishment and conference centre, therefore pursuing an interdisciplinary academic approach beyond its purely museological remit. Its stated objective is to contribute towards the understanding of man's early history. To this end it organizes regular conferences and symposia with the aims of generating interdisciplinary contacts and sparking new ideas and perspectives. The Museum publishes the lectures given at these conventions in its own series of research papers. It is also establishing a database on the Neanderthals and their environment, and further creating a collection of casts from the palaeoanthropological fossil report. This will be accessible to professional academics and amateur h...