The State Museum's archaeological collections include important objects dating back 300,000 years in the history of humankind. They are testimonies to early prehistoric settlement by primitive humans and to the world's earliest human art, created 35,000 years ago in the caves of the Swabian Jura, to the powerful Celts and their princes, to the Romans in the hinterland of the “Limes” and to the early medieval Alemannians and Franks, their incredibly rich graves filled with weapons and jewellery. This journey through 300,000 years of the archaeological life of our state – landscapes, climate, rise and fall of farming settlements and cultures, early civilisations and the beginnings of medieval settlement – is wonderfully supplemented by our antiquities collections, which combines classical Roman objects with finds from the Roman occupation areas in what is now south-western Germany.