Importance
The entire pre-existent knowledge of European Neanderthal came from numerous but fragmented finds; as an example a skullcap in Germany, skull fragments more or less voluminous but never complete in Greece, Italy, Spain and France, forcing anthropologists in a not easy effort to identify characteristics and compatibilities of missing pieces. This doesn’t happen in Altamura where all the various bone segments, all perfectly preserved, allow to shift the morphological compatibility exam from a problem of limited consistency of other finds to a more challenging problem of evolutionistic and morph-functional interpretation.
In spite this ideal situation the Lamalunga find presents exceptional methodology study problems and fruitions due to removal impossibility with procedures that can guarantee the recovery without damage. For this has been carried out the “Sarastro” project, setting the access to the discovery cave with the “field museum” approach according to which a technological infrastructure allows either the fruition and the scientific study in remote mode, leaving the find totally undisturbed and protected in his site.
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