This major exhibition exploring the archaeology and history of Bucks will display the very best of the County
Museum collections alongside splendid loans from the British Museum - some never before shown in the
county. Human tells the story of Bucks from the Ice Age to the Tudors through the people and objects left
behind. Discover tools shaped by early humans, Ice Age animals, stunning Celtic jewellery, exotic Roman
glassware, Saxon gold and medieval silver. This fascinating journey through time brings you face to face
with people from the past.

Within the show, which will tell the story of the 500,000 years of human life in the landscape which is now
Bucks and Milton Keynes, there will be five themed areas, looking at how people here lived and died, what
they believed and what clues we have of some details of their lives.

♦ Early Humans – meet the very first humans in Britain and the amazing animals that shared their
Ice Age world.
♦ First Farmers –as the ice retreated, people began to manage the landscape, building villages,
planting crops and creating the first art.
♦ Romans – as Britain became part of the Mediterranean Roman Empire, people could buy wine
from Italy, olives from Greece and silks from the Far East.
♦ Saxons – Invading Saxon settlers brought a Germanic warrior culture. Their wealthy leaders
were buried with beautiful gold jewellery.
♦ Medieval & Tudor –powerful landowners, royalty, nobles and the church, displayed their wealth
in buildings and possessions.

Specially commissioned life-size artworks by illustrator Alan Marshall will bring the exhibition to life as
visitors come face to face with an identifiable person from each time. Our Roman woman from the Yewden
villa at Hambleden even has a name – Siitomina

The Museum will run an exciting programme of events linked to the Human exhibition: lunchtime gallery
talks, special twilight lectures and performances and two Saturday Study Days. On Saturday 26 June, the
museum and garden will host Making the Past, a free living history event with re-enactors and makers
showing us how to knap flints and make bronze tools, alongside chain mail armour makers, weavers and
lacemakers and more.

At the same time as the Museum’s Human exhibition, the Bucks Archaeological Society will
publish an exciting book on the County’s archaeology, the first for many years. An Illustrated
History of Early Buckinghamshire, edited by Michael Farley, will be on sale at £15.99 through
the Society and in the Museum shop.

www.buckscc.gov.uk/museum

Previous Conferences:

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‘Farming and Farm Buildings Through the Ages’

Spring Conference 2010

Saturday 17th April 2010 10am – 4pm

Spring Conference 09

Grist to the mill: recent work on windmills and watermills

Autumn Conference & AGM 08