{"id":103,"date":"2007-09-02T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T09:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceramostratigraphie.ch\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2007-09-02T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T09:06:02","slug":"les-grecs-et-les-romains-au-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Lucy dans West Side Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e9g\u00e9rie d\u2019<a href=\"http:\/\/www.college-de-france.fr\/default\/EN\/all\/ins_pro\/p1121178788781.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Yves Coppens<\/a> pour la th\u00e9orie de l\u2019 East Side Story de l\u2019aventure humaine, Lucy, ou plut\u00f4t les 52 fragments de squelette, qui r\u00e9sument les vestiges fossilis\u00e9s d\u2019un hominid\u00e9 de l\u2019esp\u00e8ce Australopithecus afarensis se sont envol\u00e9s \u00e0 la mi-ao\u00fbt \u00e0 bord d\u2019un avion des Ethiopian Airlines pour se rendre \u00e0 Houston, Texas, o\u00f9 ils constituent depuis vendredi 31 ao\u00fbt 2007 l\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9ment central de l\u2019exposition \u00ab<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmns.org\/exhibits\/special_exhibits\/lucy.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy\u2019s Legacy : The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia<\/a> \u00bb. Jusqu\u2019au 20 avril 2008 ses ossements demeureront expos\u00e9s \u00e0 Houston, puis, comme une grande vedette en tourn\u00e9e, Lucy partira pour faire son show durant 6 ans dans diff\u00e9rents mus\u00e9es du Nouveau Monde pour y accomplir sa West Side Story.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceramostratigraphie.ch\/imgblog\/Lucy5.jpg\" alt=\"Exposition Lucy\" title=\"Exposition Lucy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Lucy expos\u00e9e \u00e0 Houston, Texas (Photo: Houston Museum of natural science)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mais est-ce bien raisonnable de d\u00e9placer ainsi des vestiges vieux de 3,2 millions d\u2019ann\u00e9es ? N\u2019aurait-il pas \u00e9t\u00e9 moins risqu\u00e9 d\u2019exposer des copies des ossements plut\u00f4t que les originaux. C\u2019est en tout cas ce que pense un grand nombre de pal\u00e9oanthropologues consult\u00e9s sur la question. Car depuis sa d\u00e9couverte en 1974 par l\u2019International Afar Research Expedition, Lucy a  \u00e9t\u00e9 soigneusement conserv\u00e9e dans une chambre forte climatis\u00e9e au Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019Ethiopie et n\u2019en a \u00e9t\u00e9 sortie que pour des recherches scientifiques et seulement pour deux expositions publiques. Gageons que la pr\u00e9sence des originaux au lieu des copies n\u2019ajoute aucun int\u00e9r\u00eat \u00e0 la valeur scientifique de cette exposition.  Seule la valeur symbolique et sans doute \u00e9galement mercantile s\u2019en trouvent notablement renforc\u00e9es. Pr\u00e9nomm\u00e9e d\u2019apr\u00e8s la chanson des Beatles Lucy in the sky with diamonds, notre jeune Australopith\u00e8que s\u2019est juste envol\u00e9e d\u2019Ethiopie pour faire recette.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"icon_link\" share_url=\"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/?p=103\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e9g\u00e9rie d\u2019Yves Coppens pour la th\u00e9orie de l\u2019 East Side Story de l\u2019aventure humaine, Lucy, ou plut\u00f4t les 52 fragments de squelette, qui r\u00e9sument les vestiges fossilis\u00e9s d\u2019un hominid\u00e9 de l\u2019esp\u00e8ce Australopithecus afarensis se sont envol\u00e9s \u00e0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/?p=103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archeofacts.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}