Guide to the Permanent Collection Pre-and Early History of the Germanic National Museum
Edited by Tobias Springer
Martin Baumeister and Kathleen Vogelsang
Nürnberg 2010, 72 pages, 98 color ills
paperback, 21 x 20 cm, ISBN 978-3-936688-50-4.
price in the Museum Shop: € 7.50,
in shipping and the book trade: € 10, - (ref 725)
The guide offers a chronological tour through the collection of prehistoric and early historic archeology in the Germanic National Museum. It includes Finds from the period from 600,000 BC to 800 AD One of the oldest exhibits is a hand-ax from the Middle Paleolithic, and its formal balance and the bluish glow of the flint impart universal tool special aesthetic appeal. From the end of the Paleolithic in the product slate engraved horse's heads, while the earliest - more stylized - human images in the collection trailer from a harness from the urnfield period and drawings on a clay bowl of the Hallstatt period. is
Over thousands of years due to changing burial customs to evolving social structures and changes in the afterlife, and thus the religion of our Ancestors to close. The rich grave goods of weapons, tools, vessels, jewelry and amulets to Christian crosses. The materials used as well as the ornament shapes indicate the long-range goods and ideas of the people of that time. Models of grave and house forms illustrate the basis of excavation findings.
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