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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

5/1/1978 - 10/31/1978

Funding Totals

$47,000.00 (approved)
$47,000.00 (awarded)

Origins of Art and Human Culuture: An Exhibition

FAIN: GM-11477-78

American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY 10024-5102)
George Gardner (Project Director: May 1978 to present)

To show what is known of human society during the last ice age in Europe (35,000 - 10,000 B.C.). The exhibit will show the significance of this material to the' understanding of the development and evolution of human society and its relation to environmental conditions. Reasons for the sudden appearance and disappearance of Upper Paleolithic art will be discussed.