The African Chapter in the Scientific Life of Professor Michał Kobusiewicz

Abstract

while recruiting young archaeolo-gists to work on the excavation of the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic camps of a Stone A fresh archaeology, During project, young Kobusiewicz turned out to be a competent, eager student and a good field companion. We spent the next field season together on a foot-survey along the Late Glacial left bank Vistula terrace between Włocławek and Płock in Central Poland. We slept in farmers’ barns, cooked one-dish meals in a pot that we carried fastened to our backpacks, and duly recorded many, today classic, Mesolithic sandy sites. Since these early years of our acquaintance, our professional, as well as private lives, became closely intertwined. We worked jointly in many Combined Prehistoric Expedition (CPE) missions in Egypt and at several sites in his cherished “prehistoric Arcadia”, or the Wojnowo Region in Western Poland.