Livingstone Museum: Difference between revisions

[[File:Livingstone_Museum_view.jpg|thumb|left|The front of the Livingstone Museum]]The museum provides an important insight into the national and cultural heritage of Zambia.<ref name="Unesco1982">{{cite book|author=Unesco|title=Museum|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oZHoAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 July 2011|year=1982|publisher=UNESCO.}}</ref> An open archaeological site is located next to the museum next to the falls which has unearthed items from the early Stone Age to the present, covering some 250,000 years.<ref name="HolmesWong2008">{{cite book|last1=Holmes|first1=Timothy|last2=Wong|first2=Winnie|title=Zambia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CEXkEMvV8bUC&pg=PA15|accessdate=4 July 2011|date=September 2008|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-3039-1|page=15}}</ref> Experts from the museum, such as Dr. [[J. Desmond Clark]], once director, have provided an important contribution to research in the country.<ref name="Scudder1962">{{cite book|last=Scudder|first=Thayer|title=The ecology of the Gwembe Tonga|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UBoNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR6|accessdate=4 July 2011|date=1 January 1962|publisher=Manchester University Press ND|isbn=978-0-7190-1276-1|page=6}}</ref> The museum has also provided expertise and support to archaeological expeditions in neighboring [[South Africa]],<ref name="Society1984">{{cite book|title=The South African archaeological bulletin|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=aB7TAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 July 2011|year=1984|publisher=South African Archaeological Society.}}</ref>