The Museo Antropológico Montané de la Universidad de La Habana exhibits a large collection of the objects, used by the first settlers of the island and several remnants from their skeleton. 

The collection of the museum is divided into six major groups. The first group focuses on the first human beings. The reproductions of some simple objects that these people used, or their remnants help us to understand the phases that they have passed through their evolution.

Among the reproductions, the skull of the Taung child, the Venus of Lespugue, the bifacial stone tool of the Solutrean culture and the harpoon shaft of the Magdalenian culture stand out.  

The fossilized skull of the Taung child is estimated to be 2.3 million years old. It was discovered in Taung, South Africa in 1924. The original is preserved in the University of Witwaterstand in South Africa.

The Venus of Lespugue is a statuette of a nude female figure, dated to about 25.000 years ago. The 1,5-meter tall statuette, characterized by large, pendulous breasts, is carved from tusk ivory. It was discovered in a cave of Lespegue in the foothills of Pyrenees in 1922. It belonged to the Paleolithic Aurinaciense culture. 

In the Soluthrean culture of the Upper Paleolithic period (about 21.000 years ago), the bifacial points were made by lithic reduction (by percussion and pressure flaking), rather than flintknapping.

The Magdalenian culture, known for their carved bone, antler and ivory artefacts, lived in western Europe from 15.000 to 7.000 years ago, during the Upper Paleolithic period. The harpoons of this culture were found in a cave in Spain.

The second group addresses the societies in Cuba that did not know how to cultivate the soul and couldn’t make pottery to store their food. These people were using shells or stones as tools. They were hunters, fishermen and collectors that live on the natural resources. Their existence in Cuba is proved by numerous archeological findings.

The skull of a human, a shell of a mollusk, used as plate, the vertebrae of a shark used as beaded necklace, and a wooden vessel are some pieces that belong to this period.