(in Polish) Get the prehistoric skills! Experimental archaeology – the way to understand past 1201-OG-EN-EA

Classes will have a profile of practical laboratories supplemented with the appropriate dose of the theoretical knowledge. In the first place, students will be familiarized with the methodology of experimental studies in archeology and a basic information about life in prehistoric times. Subsequently, it will be carried out a series of practical classes, where to participants will be presented different survival techniques used in everyday life in prehistory. During these meetings we will discuss and test some basic prehistoric techniques and tools used for processing of various types of raw materials, such as: stone, wood, leather, bone, antler, clay, amber, etc. Also, the techniques far more complicated will be presented, e.g. bone and antler softening, destructive birch bark distillation (to produce birch tar), different ways of making the fire, making and firing the pottery, hunting techniques, methods of plant processing (e. g. ropes production), building techniques et cet. Participants will be required to active, practical participation in all conducted activities. All of them will be held with the observance of relevant methodology of experimental studies. During all classes we will use only raw materials, techniques and tools available in Stone Age. To pass the course, each student will have to plan and execute correctly an archaeological experiment based on the knowledge gained during the meetings.