12:00, 6 August 2010

Unusual children's camp - "Stone Age village" - opened in Rostov Region

The project "Lost World" is implemented in the Ust-Donetsk District of the Rostov Region by the public organization "Don Archaeological Society". The idea is to study the history by placing kids into material environment of a certain epoch.

"This is a socially-focused project aimed at waking up the interest to sciences in teenagers," Natalia Kaledina, a scientific collaborator of the above public organization, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Stone Age village built for children has huts, a sanctuary, a hole for annealing ceramics, a pond with log canoes and a self-made barrow. Even poles of the fence are not nailed (no iron - it is the Stone Age!) are linked with ropes. Children were offered to try to exist in such environment.

"We've learnt a lot: to dress skins, sew skin clothes and obtain fire; we also helped in building huts," the children-camp residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Others boasted of their skills to make pots - just to fashion pots from clay - the potter's wheel was not yet invented.

See earlier report: "Kabardino-Balkaria sums up youth forum "Kavkaz-2020"".

Author: Natalya Bazhenova

Source: CK correspondent