“The Earth as a legacy” at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon

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“The Earth as a legacy” at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon.

© Musée des Confluences

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

50 mins

Program recorded at the heart of the exhibition. 

What is the connection between a Neolithic Egyptian terracotta bottle and a plastic soda bottle?

These are the traces of our way of inhabiting the Earth.

This is what the exhibition “The Earth as a legacy, from the Neolithic to us” at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon questions.

(Replay)

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From sedentarization 10,000 years ago to globalization today, our lifestyles upset environmental balances.

Our adaptation made our success, will we be able to face the future? 

Guests: 

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Jean-Paul Demoule,

archaeologist and prehistorian, professor emeritus of European Protohistory at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

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Jean-Baptiste Fressoz,

historian of science, technology and the environment, researcher at CNRS (EHESS-CRH)

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Michel Lussault,

geographer, professor of urban studies ENS Lyon, University of Lyon - director of the Urban School of Lyon.

(Replay of April 9, 2021)

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