ISSUE 6 
June 2022


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INSIDE ICE AGE EUROPE

Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine…?
Rick Springer / Neanderthal Museum, Germany

Three museums in one: Ice A ge Europe online tours
Meritxell Fernández-Coll / Neanderthal Museum, Germany
Angharad Jones / Creswell Crags Museum & Heritage Centre, UK
Nicolò Scialpi / Fumane Cave / University of Ferrara, Italy

IN CONVERSATION WITH...

Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred – Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art


NEWS FROM THE NETWORK

ANNIVERSARIES OF ICE AGE HERITAGE SITES

20 years working on behalf of and for Altamira
Pilar Fatás Monforte / National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira, Spain

New highlights at the Neanderthal Museum for the 25th anniversary
Melanie Wunsch / Neanderthal Museum, Germany

Half a century of the museum on Hu šnjakovo hill
Jurica Sabol / Krapina Neanderthal Museum, Croatia

RESEARCH OF ICE AGE HERITAGE

Upper Palaeolithic art in a monumental granite landscape. New findings from the site of Faia
Mário Reis, Lara Bacelar Alves, Bárbara Carvalho, Vera Caetano, João Muralha Cardoso, Andrea Martins / Côa Museum and Archaeological Park of the Côa Valley, Portugal

Ekain cave: Opening new lines of research in european history
Ekainberri Team / Ekainberri – The Replica of the Ekain Cave, Spain

Pleistocene fauna in Biscay
Joseba Rios Garaizar / Bizkaia Museum of Archaeology, Spain

Creswell Crags’ first bone collectors
Angharad Jones / Creswell Crags Museum & Herit age Centre, UK

Shells connecting Ice Age Europe
Benjamin Schürch / Archaeopark Vogelherd, Germany

EXHIBITIONS AND OUTREACH PROJECTS

Chauvet: Mankind’s first masterpiece
Arthur Heimann, Dominique Bonjean / Scladina Cave Archaeological Centre, Belgium

MUSE box – museum in the classroom
Elisabetta Flor, Laura Casari, Ilaria Postinghel, Alessandro Fedrigotti, Simone Floresta, Luca Scoz, Monica Spagolla / MUSE – Science Museum of Trento, Italy

Sound spaces and colour splendour
Hannes Wiedmann, Jeany Weisheit / Museum of Prehistory Blaubeuren, Germany

REFLECTIONS

Does our degree of trust influence our r elationship with the past?
Fernand Collin / Préhistomuseum, Belgium

ISSUE 5 
May 2021


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GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Integrating Neanderthal Legacy: From Past to Present. A new international network of Neanderthal scholars launched as a COST Action at the end o f 2020
Sanjin Mihelic / Zagreb Archaeological Museum, Croatia, Ivor Janković / Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia

MUSEUMS & SITES AND THE PANDEMIC

COVID-19 in prehistory and nowadays. Evolution or involution
Ekainberri Team / Ekainberri – The Replica of the Ekain Cave, Spain

Living cultural activities in the new global reality: the accepted challenge of Fumane Cave
Nicolò Scialpi / Fumane Cave, Italy

An attempt to boost the multidisciplinarity o f our educational activities: looking for prehistoric clues in the Botanical Gardens
Elisabetta Flor, Lisa Angelini / MUSE – Science Museum of Trento, Italy

RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION

Côa Valley: Neanderthals lived here before us
Thierry Aubry, Luís Luís, André Tomás Santos / Côa Museum and Archaeological Park of the Côa Valley, Portugal

The Surroundings of Altamira archaeological site or How we know that the Neanderthals also lived around the Cave of Altamira
Lucía M. Díaz-González, Déborah Ordás Pastrana / National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira, Spain

Back to the Neanderthals
Benjamin Schürch / Archaeopark Vogelherd, Germany

A depiction of symbolic behaviour of Neanderthals in the Krapina Neanderthal Museum
Lorka Lončar Uvodić / Krapina Neanderthal Museum, Croatia

MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS & EDUCATION

Inauguration of “Le Phare d´Andenne”
Arthur Heimann / Scladina Cave Archaeological Centre, Belgium

On the shoulders of giants: The history of Basque archaeology
Iñaki García Camino / Bizkaia Museum of Archaeology, Spain

Care in the Ice Age
Hannes Wiedmann / Museum of Prehistory, Germany

(How) Do we see ourselves in the process of evolution?
Rick Springer / Neanderthal Museum, Germany

The Laboratory of Experimental Archaeology at the Préhistomuseum – A real service for researchers at a mediating museum
Cécile Jungels / Préhistomuseum, Belgium

ISSUE 4 
May 2020


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GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Bringing Neanderthals to Denmark: An exhibition collaboration between Moesgaard Museum and Neanderthal Museum
Trine Kellberg Nielsen / Moesgaard Museum, Denmark

RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION
 
Specialized and innovative Neanderthals: new multidisciplinary study unravels the advanced technical manipulation of backed stone tools in Fumane Cave
Nicolò Scialpi / Fumane Cave, Italy

The CENIEH Conservation & Restoration Laboratory for archaeological and paleontological cultural heritage
Pilar Fernández Colón / National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Spain


DOCUMENTATION AND DIGITISATION

The DISAPALE Project
Gianpiero Di Maida / Neanderthal Museum, Germany

Altamira documentation of collections. A legacy for the future
María de la Cerca González Enríquez / Museum of Altamira, Spain

MUSEUMS AND EXHIBTIONS

10 Years of Krapina Neanderthal Museum
Lorka Lončar Uvodić / Krapina Neanderthal Museum, Croatia

Scladina Cave - One of Wallonia's famous Neanderthal sites
Grégory Abrams / Scladina Cave Archaeological Centre, Belgium

The Wild Lone Valley – The implementation of current archaeological analysis in a special exhibition
Benjamin Schürch / Archaeopark Vogelherd, Germany

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The Arkeologi Museoa: Towards efficient and sustainable management
Laura Garcia Boullosa, Iñaki García Camino / Bizkaia Museum of Archaeology, Spain

Why and how is the Préhistomuseum seeking to become a museum of transition?
Fernand Collin / Préhistomuseum, Belgium

EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION AND TOURISM

How does archaeology work? – The visitor’s Research Room
Hannes Wiedmann / Museum of Prehistory Blaubeuren, Germany

Exploring the Ekain Territory
Ekainberri Team / Ekainberri – The Replica of the Ekain Cave, Spain

A species in motion: A multidisciplinary lab looking into the discovery of human migration
Chiara Steffanini, Laura Casari, Nicola Nannini, Elisabetta Flor / MUSE - Science Museum of Trento, Italy

ISSUE 3 
May 2019


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RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION

The human occupation of Britain over the last one million years
Mark Lewis, Chris Stringer / Natural History Museum, London, UK

Wallonia – A cradle of Prehistory
Fernand Collin / Préhistomuseum, Belgium

120 years of Krapina neanderthals
Jurica Sabol / Krapina Neanderthal Museum, Croatia

50th anniversary of Ekain’s discovery
Team of Ekainberri / Ekainberri – The Replica of the Ekain Cave, Spain

Beyond the MUSE – Museo Delle Scienze: Research on the Late Palaeolithic site of Cornafessa rock shelter reveals unique evidence of bear unting
Rossella Duches, Elisabetta Flor / MUSE – Museo Delle Scienze, Italy

The cave of Altamira and its preventive conservation plan
Alfredo Prada Freixedo / Museum of Altamira, Spain

Underground Mapping
Nick Powe / Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves, UK

CENIEH as provider of paleoanthropological and geochronological datasets for the ARIADNEplus project
Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Maria Isabel Sarró Moreno, Cecilia Calvo Simal, Mohamed Sahnouni / National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Spain

EXHIBITIONS

Climate changes in history: An Arkeologi Museoa exhibition (Bizkaia, the Basque country)
Iñaki García Camino / Arkeologi Museoa - Santimamiñe. Bizkaiko foru aldundia, Spain

Our mammoth – a giant now and then. A special exhibition at Vogelherd
Ewa Dutkiewicz / Archaeopark Vogelherd, Germany


EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION

Gibraltar, Neanderthals, and the Calpe Conference
Alex Menez / The Gibraltar National Museum, UK

The future of the Neanderthal Museum: Of, by and for all
Bärbel Auffermann / Neanderthal Museum, Germany

8,000 grandmas ago
Barbara Bussola, Niccolò Jacopo Camilloni, Anita Gubbiotti / Fumane Cave - homo 3.0, Italy

Speleology – experience and adventure serving scientific research
Barbara Spreer, Hannes Wiedmann / Museum of Prehistory Blaubeuren, Germany

Prehistory for all
Véronique Simbille / The Museum of Neanderthal Man La Chapelle aux Saints, France

Treasure hunting at the paläon
Jana Hugler / paläon - Research and Experience Centre Schöningen Spears, Germany

ISSUE 2 
April 2018


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INTRODUCTION

5 Years Ice Age Europe – Network of Heritage Sites
Katrin Hieke, Network Office / Gerd-Christian Weniger, Lead Partner Neanderthal Museum, Germany

RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION

The character of Neanderthal art
Paul Pettitt / University of Durham, UK

The cave of Altamira in third dimension: to investigate, disseminate and preserve in 3D
Carmen de las Heras / Museum of Altamira, Spain

Beyond Arkeologi Museoa and Santimamiñe. Research on Ice Age sites in Biscay (Basque Country)
Diego Garate, Iñaki García Camino / Ca ves of Santimamiñe and Bizkaia Museum of Archaeology, Spain

The Vanguard Cave Child. Third Neanderthal fossil discovered in Gibraltar’s new World Heritage Site
Francisco Giles Guzmán, Tyson Lee Holmes / The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar, UK

25 years of successful excavation and research in Schöningen
Jordi Serangeli / paläon – Research and Experience Centre Schöningen Spears, Germany

Raising the awareness of cave conservation while staging performing arts underground
Nick Powe / Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves, UK

MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS

Happy tenth birthday, Ekainberri!
Team of Ekainberri / Ekainberri – The Replica of the Ekain Cave, Spain

Happy birthday! The 110th anniversary of the discovery of the la Chapelle skeleton. A temporary exhibition, July to September 2018
Véronique Simbille / The Museum of Neanderthal Man La Chapelle aux Saints, France

Evolution from a gender based per spective. A traveling exhibition for vindicating the role of women in human evolution
Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Chitina Moreno-T orres / Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Spain

Two million years of migration
Melanie Wunsch / Neanderthal Museum, Germany

Fossil remains of the Pleistocene animals e xposed in Krapina
Jurica Sabol / Krapina Neanderthal Museum, Croatia

EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION

Lights! Prehistory! Action! Focusing on Prehistory: the first movie makers
Anita Gubbiotti, Barbara Bussola, Niccolò Camilloni / Fumane Cave, Italy

Drawing prehistory: a contribution to The First Movie Makers project
Anita Gubbiotti, Barbara Bussola, Niccolò Camilloni, Chiar a Zen / Fumane Cave, Italy

Murder at MUSE?
Elisabetta Flor, Samuela Caliari, Elisa Casati, Rossella Duches, Massimiliano Tardio, Stefania Tarter / MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Italy

Archaeological depots and professions unveiled at the Préhistomuseum
Cécile Jungels / Préhistomuseum, Belgium

The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 at Isturitz & Oxocelhaya
Joëlle Darricau / Isturitz, Oxocelhaya and Erberua Caves, France

ICE AGE EUROPE AND WORLD HERITAGE

Caves and Ice Age Art of the Swabian Jura. The new UNESCO World Heritage
Stefanie Kölbl / Museum of Prehistory Blaubeuren, Germany & Ewa Dutkiewicz / Archaeopark Vogelherd, Germany

Transnational Serial Nomination of European Neanderthal Sites for the UNESCO World Heritage List
Nuria Sanz / UNESCO Mexico, Mexico

ISSUE 1
April 2017


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#IceAgeEuropeNow Touring Exhibition
Katrin Hieke, Ice Age Europe Network Office

Altamira for families: Talk, debate, share, learn and unlearn
Asun Martínez and Noelia de Dios, Museum of Altamira

Spear broken! What now?
Stefanie Kölbl, Museum of Prehistory Blaubeuren

Know Thyself
Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Museum of Human Evolution Burgos

Archaeology for the future: “Arkeologia Gela” - School programmes at the museum
Team of Arkeologi Museoa (Bizkaia Museum of Archaeology)

Prehistoric Olympic Games
Eneko Calvo Etxarte, Ekainberri-The replica of the Ekain Cave

Neanderthal 2.0
Rafael Mora Torcal, Paloma González-Marcén, Jorge Martínez-Moreno, Clara Masriera-Esquerra, Espai Orígens Visitor Centre - La Roca dels Bous Archaeological Site

Prehistoric Nights
Barbara Bussola, Anita Gubbiottia, Fumane Cave

Ice Age Europe gets a new World Heritage Site!
Tyson Holmes, The Gibraltar Museum

Résonnances
Joëlle Darricau, Isturitz, Oxocelhaya and Erberua Caves

Summer Geology School
Vlasta Krklec, Krapina Neanderthal Museum

Entertaining Humankind for over ½ million years
Nick Powe, Kents Cavern Prehistoric Caves

Stories of Ancestors: A Prehistoric European Adventure
Véronique Simbille, The Museum of Neanderthal Man La Chapelle-aux-Saints

The Update
Bärbel Auffermann, Neanderthal Museum

Archaeology close up. Students discover the Stone Age and the saber-toothed cat at paläon
Florian Westphal, paläon-Research and Experience Centre Schöningen Spears

The reason for the PrehistoMuseum
Team of the PréhistoMuseum

150 years since the discovery of Solutré
Sylvain Quertelet, Prehistory Museum of Solutré

Prehistory for the blind and visually impaired – a new guide concept in the Archaeopark Vogelherd
Ewa Dutkiewicz, Archaeopark Vogelherd

Becoming human evolution scientist for one night at the CENIEH
Chitina Moreno-Torres, CENIEH

The strange case of Dr Sapiens and Mr. Neanderthal: theatre and science work together!
Romana Scandolari, Elisabetta Flor, MUSE - Museo delle Scienze