Reblogged from the Field Museum web site:
The Ancient Americas
Opens March 9, 2007
Step
into the windswept world of Ice-Age mammoth hunters. Walk through a
replica of an 800-year-old pueblo dwelling and imagine your entire
family cooking, eating, and sleeping in one small room. Explore the
Aztec empire and its island capital, Tenochtitlan, a city of more than
200,000 people and an extraordinary feat of engineering for any era.
Discover what Field Museum scientists and others have learned about the
Americans who lived here before us, and how it’s changing nearly
everything we thought we knew!
The Field Museum’s ground-breaking new exhibition, The Ancient Americas,
takes you on a journey through 13,000 years of human ingenuity and
achievement in the western hemisphere, where hundreds of diverse
societies thrived long before the arrival of Europeans. In this
19,000-square-foot permanent exhibition you’ll live the epic story of
the peopling of these continents, from the Arctic to the tip of South
America. Discover how and why the early Americans developed farming,
created new forms of artistic expression, and forged mighty empires.
See more than 2,200 artifacts, amazing reconstructions, and dozens of
videos and interactive displays, and come to understand the ingenuity
with which ancient peoples met the challenges of their times and
places…as we meet ours today.
The Ancient Americas
is made possible by the McCormick Tribune Foundation. The Farming
Villagers Gallery is presented by the Abbott Fund. The Innovators
Gallery is presented by ITW Foundation.
An interview with Gary Feinman (curator of Middle American Anthropology) and Jonathan Haas (MacArthur Curator, Anthropology of the Americas) appears in the Spring 2007 issue of In the Field.
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