Abstract
The paper presents the results of an experimental study carried out in the Biskupin Archaeological Museum by several archaeology students of the Institute of Prehistory at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. The project was managed by Katarzyna Pyzewicz PhD. The study, undertaken between 2008 and 2010, included making frames of huts, covering them with cane, as well as creating and using the replicas of the Stone Age tools. The purpose of all experiments was to attempt to answer the questions: how Mesolithic dwellings could have looked like, whether it seems reasonable to try to create “reconstructions” of them, what techniques and types of tools were used to build them, and how effective they really were. The purpose of the study was also to review established theories concerning the Mesolithic dwellings from the Polish Lowland and to draw attention to the cognitive valour of an experiment in archaeology.
Highlights
The paper presents the results of an experimental study carried out in the Biskupin Archaeological Museum by several archaeology students of the Institute of Prehistory at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
The first stage of the experiment was to construct a frame of a dwelling hut in 2008, based on an interpretation of hut remains from site 6 in Siedlnica
Summary
The purpose of all experiments was to attempt to answer the questions: how Mesolithic dwellings could have looked like, whether it seems reasonable to try to create “reconstructions” of them, what techniques and types of tools were used to build them, and how effective they really were. Chęć odpowiedzi na powyżej postawione pytania stała się impulsem do podjęcia przez Instytut Prahistorii UAM badań eksperymentalnych, prowadzonych we współpracy z Muzeum Archeologicznym w Biskupinie. Koordynatorem i swoistym spiritus movens projektu stała się dr Katarzyna Pyżewicz, której to wielu młodych adeptów archeologii zawdzięcza możliwość wykonania zaplanowanych przez siebie eksperymentów oraz wsparcie w podejmowanych problemach badawczych. Podczas prac w Biskupinie udało się wykonać (idąc za rozgraniczeniami P.J. Reynoldsa2) nie tylko doświadczenia Definiując pojęcie eksperymentu, stwierdził, iż jest to „metoda stawiania racjonalnych twierdzeń przeciwko intuicyjnym hipotezom, poprzez próby i testy”[4]
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