Lecture: Archaeology in the city

An extremely complex matter
[Translate to Englisch:] Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen, Aufnahme: Juray Liptak

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Location

smac - State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz

entrance 3 Euro for Advance booking at the museum box office, free admission for members of the Friends of smac e.V.

Speaker Dr Jens Beutmann, archaeologist and exhibition manager at smac

An excavation in the centre of the city is research on a living object. While archaeologists usually investigate long-abandoned settlement and burial sites, urban archaeologists try to fathom the history and origins of our cities that still exist today. Because our predecessors literally "lived on top" of their rubbish over many centuries, it is a complicated and exciting business to read their legacies backwards, so to speak, during excavation. The lecture gives an introduction to the special methods of this discipline using mostly Saxon examples.

Note: An audio loop has been installed in the lecture theatre.

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European Capital of Culture The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Free State of Saxony European Capital of Culture

This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.