• The Lyskamm marmot

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The Lyskamm marmot

Resort: Saint-Pierre

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Museo regionale di scienze naturali
Web Site
https://museoscienze.vda.it/focus/marmotta-lyskamm/

The marmot mummy, found in the Lyskamm glacier in the summer of 2022, is considered the oldest mummified find in Italy and a discovery of considerable interest for the scientific community.
Radiocarbon dating places it geologically in the Middle Holocene (about 6,600 years ago) and with respect to man in the Neolithic (4,691-4,501 BC).

The mummy of the little marmot is today welcomed inside the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences in the castle of Saint-Pierre, in a super-technological case where it can be housed for the next 500 years.

It is the first time that a natural mummy has been found in Aosta Valley (i.e. a body in which the process of decomposition by microorganisms is inhibited by natural causes).A multidisciplinary team of scientists and scholars are working on the Marmot Mummy Project to further investigate the marmot.

See also

Museums
Alpenfaunamuseum Beck-Peccoz di Gressoney-Saint-Jean

"Beck-Peccoz" Regional Museum of alpine fauna

Gressoney-Saint-Jean

In his testament drawn up in Augsburg and dated 11 February 1882, Baron Luigi Beck-Peccoz asked for his collection of trophies to be transported to Gressoney and arranged in a purposely-built building allocating a large sum of money to it.At the start of …

Museums
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Regional Natural Science Museum

Saint-Pierre

The Regional Museum of Natural Science is named after its founder, Efisio Noussan.The project of museography is based on the castle-museum combination and intends to enhance both the historical-architectural and the scientific-naturalistic assets, …

Castles and towers
Night-time

Saint-Pierre Castle

Saint-Pierre

This fairy-tale castle set on a crag above the village is really unique.The famous four little lateral towers, which were added in the 19th century, give to Saint-Pierre’s castle, that ranks among the oldest manors in the region, a Disney-like appearance. …

Note - this information is not directly connected to the Cammino Balteo path but it is part of the Aosta Valley tourist offer.