The Sum of our Prehistories exhibition
Musée de PicardieIt was between Abbeville and Amiens that prehistory was born as a scientific discipline in the middle of the 19th century. Today, this area remains a key research site for anyone wishing to understand the life of prehistoric man. The Somme basin offers favourable conditions for the conservation of archaeological sites, from the remains of the first human settlements in Northern Europe 700,000 years ago, to the last manifestations of hunter-gatherer populations before the advent of agriculture around 7,000 years ago. Over the last thirty years, major and sometimes unprecedented discoveries have been made in the département.
The "La Somme des Préhistoires" exhibition is being held at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens from 23 March to 3 November 2024. It is open from Tuesday to Friday, from 9.30am to 6pm, and on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, except 1 May, from 11am to 6pm.
Exhibition programme
https://www.amiens.fr/Actualites/Voyage-au-centre-de-la-Pre-histoire
Jagerschmidt-Seguin Agathe, Paris Clément (dir.) - La Somme des Préhistoires, un territoire, notre histoire. Catalogue of the exhibition La Somme des Préhistoires, published by Snoek, Ghent, 272 p.