About 70 people stepped tens of thousands of years into the past, learning to hunt with darts chunked by spears, make tools from stone and join a badminton-like game played by an ancient Peruvian civilization. Taking place Nov. 4 on Chamberlain Field, the fifth annual Paleo Skills Workshop was organized by Assistant Professor Brooke Persons, director of the Jeffrey L. Brown Institute of Archaeology at UTC.
Tool time: Students create artifacts for paleo skills workshop
The paleo skills workshop, which takes place Oct. 8, allows students to experiment with archaic weaponry and tools to better understand the evolution of human technology around the world.