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PRE- AND PROTOHISTORY 
2nd floor 
young artists have begun to look for new directions 
and thus to follow the course of the international 
art scene. 
2"d FLOOR - Entrance 2B 
PRE- AND PROTOHISTORY 
Rooms 218 to 221 
Cast foot-ring with nodes 
(LaTe&ne period) 
Mammoth tusks 
Stane hatcharıt 
Urnfield culture 
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Battle-axe 
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Brooch 
(LaT&ne period) 
Bronze 
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Stamnas 
On the 2" floor, turn to the right and go through 
rooms 213 to 217, then turn to the left (see plan 
Dages 4 and 5). 
THE PALAEOLITHIC AND THE MESOLITHIC 
AGES 
The palaeolithic age: The first room deals with the 
life and the natural environment of prehistoric man. 
The fauna of the palaeolithic age is represented by 
mammoth tusks and by bison, aurochs and rein- 
deer bones. The lithic and the bone industries 
show the most ancient examples of quartzite, flint 
and bone tools. 
From the mesolithic age: Reconstruction of the 
shelter wall and the burial-place of the ”Losch- 
bour”. 
218 
219 
THE NEOLITHIC AGE 
Tools, pottery and wheel heads of the First 
Settlers. Settlements of the Bandkeramik pottery 
culture from the site of Weiler-la-Tour. 
220 THE STONE INDUSTRY OF THE NEOLITHIC AND 
THE BRONZE AGE 
The most important object of this room is the great 
jadeit ritual axe from the Belebierg near Graulin- 
ster. The other exhibit cases present material com- 
ing from Northern European countries and from 
che United States. 
221 
PROTOHISTORY (BRONZE AND IRON AGE 
CULTURES) 
The Bronze Age is represented by bronze 
weapons, tools and adornments. Several exhibit 
cases of this room display items of the Urnfield cul- 
ture, such as the settlements of the sites of Nos- 
pelt-Kröckelbierg and Peppange-Keizenbierg as 
well as the cremation graves found at Burmerange 
and Remerschen. 
From the Iron Age (the Hallstatt and the La Te&ne 
sultures) some Dpotterv and adornments. whick