Twenty Years with Flint. The Society for Experimental Prehistoric Archaeology – Where are We Now?

Abstract

The Society of Experimental Prehistoric Archaeology is an organisation affiliated with the Nicolaus Copernicus University’s Institute of Archaeology since 1998. The first academic supervisor of SEPA was Jolanta Małecka-Kukawka, now led by Grzegorz Osipowicz. The Society brings together people interested in experimental archaeology, especially in studies aimed at the analysis and interpretation of Stone Age research problems. An important part of SEPA activities are the popularisation of, and education in, experimental archaeology. The aim of this paper is to summarise the near 20-year history of the Society by exposing the latest projects of its members to a wider audience.

Keywords

• experimental archaeology
• university
• construction of building
• bone
• use wear analysis
• knife
• tar or pitch
• palaeolithic
• mesolithic
• neolithic
• chalcolithic
• poland