The proposal arises from the ongoing collaboration between the Municipality of Lugo and the Department of History, Cultures and Civilizations of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, which led to the stipulation of a three-year agreement in 2023 for the valorization of the city’s archaeological heritage.
The laboratories
The “The first men” laboratory was created by Monica Bianconistudent of Prehistory and Protohistory, to provide innovative teaching elements for primary school (currently it is exclusively in this teaching cycle that prehistory is studied), working on the knowledge ofNeolithic settlement of Lugoidentified in 1982 in the center of the Fornace Gattelli extraction basin.
The young students then work onstratigraphy analysis, they produce clay artefacts, they engage in the construction of reed huts.
The classroom teaching workshops have so far involved seven classes, from third to fourth grade, from the Codazzi, Garibaldi and Sacro Cuore primary schools.
Prehistory
In the meetings it was explained what la is Prehistory and how it is divided temporally, focusing mainly on the Neolithic and connecting to the important prehistoric settlement of Fornace Gattelli in Lugo di Romagna; through activities to explore and understand the different material culture Monica Bianconi has recreated a “prehistoric atelier” to bring the little ones closer to the daily life of these ancient societies: from the processing of ceramics, to the recognition of the main species of crops and their grinding for production of flour, passing through the production of some stone tools and ornamental shell objects.
To complete the journey, the last workshop in the library for children aged 8 to 10 is scheduled for Wednesday 22 May at 5.00 pm (By reservation, tel. 0545 299558 – Whatsapp 339 5380983).
