Reconstructing prehistoric boats. A report on two experiments carried out during the first International Camp of Experimental. Archaeology, Toruń 2021

This article reports on two main archaeological experiments that were conducted during the first International Camp of Experimental Archaeology, which took place in August 2021 at Golub-Dobrzyń, close to Toruń, Poland. During the two weeks of this event, its participants, divided into two groups, carried out the reconstruction of two archaic boats: a dugout and a leather-covered boat known from ethnographic contexts mostly as the so-called skin-on-frame canoe. All work was carried out using exclusively techniques and tools known in the Stone and Bronze Ages. Also, this article presents a first discussion on the characteristics of use-wear traces created on the experimental tools.