At the heart of human nature, there is storytelling.
The earliest examples of storytelling in the human lineage date back almost 50,000 years. Placing ourselves throughout time and space not only expands our capacity for thought through imaginative play, for example, but also brings us closer together when we work on an idea and build it from the ground up.
For this reason, the “Stories From Bones” initiative was born with the intention to discover as much as possible about the archaeological artefacts stored by the Archaeology Department of the University of Southampton. Through a series of techniques, including CT scanning and finite element analysis, it has been possible to reconstruct the “stories” behind these artefacts, and learn more about the life of our ancestors.
