Ancient Italian artefacts get the blues
Ancient Italian artefacts get the blues
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作者：
A. Abbott
这些史前宝藏——包括人骨和石器——来自维罗纳附近的遗址，当解剖学上的现代人类开始统治该地区时，那里居住着一些欧洲最后已知的尼安德特人。例如，科学家表示，将遗骸中的 DNA 与其他地方发现的尼安德特人骨骼中的 DNA 进行比较，可能会显示出最后一批尼安德特人如何穿越非洲大陆寻求庇护。但现在，一些遗骸面临着无法挽回的损害，因为它们躺在意大利北部的一个前军事军械库中，日益恶化。 2007 年和 2008 年，维罗纳市议会出售了它们原来的住所——一座为维罗纳自然历史博物馆提供超额存储空间的 18 世纪城堡，这些文物于 2007 年和 2008 年被搬到了那里。出售所得的资金旨在翻新军火库，为博物馆的所有藏品提供一个新家，但资金随后被重新分配。
The prehistoric treasures—including human bones and stone tools—come from sites near Verona, which were inhabited by some of Europe's last known Neanderthals when anatomically modern humans were beginning to dominate the region. Scientists say that comparing DNA from the remains with DNA from Neanderthal bones found elsewhere may show how the last Neanderthals moved across the continent seeking refuge, for example.But now some of the remains face irreparable damage, as they lie deteriorating in a former military armoury in northern Italy. The artefacts were moved there in 2007 and 2008 after Verona's town council sold their original home—an eighteenth-century castle that provided overflow storage for Verona's Natural History Museum. The money from the sale was intended to refurbish the arsenal to provide a new home for all of the museum's collections, but the funds were subsequently reallocated.