UNEARTHING THE PAST

... to their laboratory study

All the elements of the archaeological record are studied by researchers from different areas of expertise. Human and animal bones, stones and other raw materials transformed into domestic utensils and hunting weapons, botanical remains (such as charcoal and pollen, for example) and the sediments that surround them are analysed according to the specific methodologies of each disciplinary area. From biology to genetics, from history to anthropology, from geology to geophysics, from computing to modelling, from chemistry to physics - these are some of the scientific fields involved in this process of reconstructing the past in its most diverse manifestations: subsistence, technologies, ways of being and know-how, internal organisation, the relationship between groups and their territories, up to their symbolic and artistic manifestations.