Latenium Park and Museum of Archeology

The Latenium is an archeology museum positioned in Hauterive, a suburb of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Its name refers back to the La Tene tradition. The La Tene way of life was a European Iron Age lifestyle. It developed and flourished at some stage in the past due Iron Age, succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt subculture with none specific cultural ruin, below the impetus of sizeable Mediterranean impact from the Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, the Etruscans, and Golasecca way of life.

The Latenium is composed of a 2 500 m² parc, and a museum building which additionally harbours the archaeological phase of the University of Neuchatel. The parc functions dolmens and erratic stones, reconstitutions of prehistoric and vintage devices a La Tene house, a Gallo-Roman ship and a Celtic bridge, notably, and cutting-edge works of artwork. The museum presentations the Bevaix boat, a 20-metre Gallo-Roman deliver determined in Bevaix.

Items from intervals comprised between the paleolithic to the Roman empire are on show, such as the remains of a Magdalenian searching camp. The Magdalenian also Madelenian; French: Magdalenien cultures are later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic in western Europe, dating from around 17,000 to 12,000 years ago. It is called after the type web page of La Madeleine, a rock refuge placed within the Vezere valley, commune of Tursac, in the Dordogne department of France.