Apr 10 - Museum Lecture Series Starts Next Week
The 2015 Museum Lecture Series commences next Tuesday 14th April. This year, the Gibraltar Museum celebrates its 85th Anniversary. This year’s programme is part of a series of activities that will be announced during the course of the year and will draw on a variety of speakers who will talk on different aspects of Gibraltar’s rich history, natural history, culture and heritage.
The first lecture in the series will be delivered by Museum Director, Clive Finlayson, who will be presenting a lecture entitled “Discovering the Bird People”. This lecture will draw on Clive’s personal story in the discovery of the special relationship which the Neanderthals of Gibraltar had with birds. The work resulted in the publication of two major papers in international journals which received much acclaim as they overturned established concepts of human behaviour.
“The lecture will be a journey of exploration into the Neanderthal mind” said Clive who added: “Along the way we have found much about our own mind and how we have inwardly viewed the history of the world, as we are now coming to the chilling realisation that once there were other humans on this planet. We don’t need to go out there looking for other forms of intelligent life – we had it here all the time. The research continues.”
The lecture is free and open to all and will be held at the John Mackintosh Hall on Tuesday 14th April, 2015, at 7pm.
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