The Municipal Archaeological Museum Enrique Escudero de Castro opened yesterday a new edition of The Tuesday of the Museum, with the lecture series ingenuity in the service of beauty.
The image of women over time, which will run until April 10.
The first conference, presence of women in prehistory, was by Dr. Roberto Risch, Professor, Department of Prehistory of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
It is part of the research group Social Arqueoecologia Mediterra girl, whose main objective reconstruction of the social, economic and ecological societies that inhabited the western Mediterranean basin over recent prehistory, ie between the third and the first millennium BC, specifically focusing on the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands.
Professor Risch raised the role and representation of women in society through prehistoric archaeological findings and interpretations of the same from the Social Archaeology.
The conference was attended by 75 teachers from primary and secondary schools, tourism professionals, Archaeology, Restoration and the general public.
The next conference will be held on Tuesday 20 March at 20.00 hours will be from venustate.
On female beauty, by the Bath Francisca Moya, Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Murcia.
On Tuesday March 27, Ornamenta muliebria.
Women and beauty in late antiquity, taught by Jaime Sanchez Vizcaino, Doctor of Archaeology, and the last, on Tuesday, April 10, Moments of women.
Photographic projection, with the participation of photographer Juan Manuel Diaz Burgos.
Free admission seating.
A WALK THROUGH THE IMAGE OF WOMEN
Besides the lecture, the Museum has organized a tour to discover Theme feminine side of the Museum's collections, as seen from the decoration, clothing, perfume and other items and items related to women.
Throughout history, the human body and especially the female body through the clothes, jewelry, tattoos and other forms of physical disturbance, has been a vehicle for expressing personal and collective values ​​(wealth, social status , Ethnic, clan membership, ambition ¿).
You can even speak of a permanent tendency to resort to tricks to improve the appearance and impress peers.
Behind one of the most timeless human weaknesses but also more universal: the search for beauty.
The Thematic Tour can be done from 8 March to 30 April.
Guided tours: Monday to Friday at 12:00, upon reservation www.museoarqueologicocartagena.es .
Tel 968 128967/68
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena