NESPOS - Science in Motion
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NESPOS ((Pleistocene People and Places) ) is the first worldwide scientific online-platform for early human history.
The interactive database contains all anthropological and archaeological data related to Neanderthals. The international NESPOS Society e.V. is based at the Neanderthal Museum.
NESPOS offers access to 3D-images, such as CT-Scans and surface scans, as well as high-resolution photographs of human fossils and artefacts. The project is mainly funded by the Neanderthal Museum Association e.V. and the Neanderthal Museum Foundation.
What NESPOS does?
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The use of the software package VisiCore – especially designed for NESPOS – is free for all members. With VisiCore you can analyse and measure all digitally stored finds on the screen. This reduces direct contact with highly sensible human fossils and tools made out of organic material to a minimum. Therefore, NESPOS makes a contribution to the preservation of our cultural heritage.
NESPOS was developed in the framework of the EU-project "TNT - The Neanderthal Tools". All in all eight partners were involved. Besides the Neanderthal Museum as the initiator, the consortium consists of other European institutions such as the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, the Croatian Natural History Museum Zagreb, Croatia, the University of Portiers, as well as ART+COM Berlin, PXP Austria Wien, Hasso-Plattner-Institute for software systems engineering Potsdam and National Geographic Deutschland.
Within the framework of TNT a unique digitalisation of European Neanderthal fossils was conducted. More than 600 fossils and artefacts from Belgium, Croatia, France and Germany have been scanned.
