Stone age in Croatia

The Neanderthal Museum was opened last week In Krapina, Croatia. This new museum is introducing new computer simulations and other high tech tools to explain one branch of the evolutionary tree. The museum was built on the site where scientists have found the greatest concentration in Europe of Neanderthal remains, bones, skulls, and tools. The museum has a unique concept, summing up evolution in a 24-hour period. Visitors to the museum can reach out and touch parts of a digital Neanderthal body to get a response of an explanation of their diseases and ailments.

The main display in the museum even recreates the smell of sweat and burning meat to give visitors of taste of what the stone age was really like.

By: Liz Hasseld