The rich archaeological heritage of the Altamura Museum offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the ancient civilizations that succeeded each other in that particular environmental context that is the Alta Murgia, inhabited by humans since the Middle Paleolithic. Of particular interest is the section dedicated to the “Altamura Man” found in the Lamalunga area, who lived between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago (Middle-Upper Pleistocene). Among the various initiatives promoted over the years, the exhibition “Prehistory of food. At the origins of bread” is especially captivating, an interesting journey that reconstructs the production processes and strategies of transformation and preservation of one of the most indispensable foods in the prehistoric human diet: bread.
Disabled access is only available on the ground floor
Information about the National Archaeological Museum of Altamura
Via Santeramo, 88
70022 Altamura (Bari)
0803146409 0803149896
museoarch.altamura@beniculturali.it
https://www.archeopuglia.beniculturali.it/
Source: MIBACT
