Museum evening: dr. Matija Turk - Traces of Stone age man at Kamnik's region

How old are the oldest traces of settlement in Kamnik or its immediate surroundings? When for the first time and why did man choose certain places to settle. Where, when and who discovered and excavated the older Stone Age remains of tools, dwellings of Stone Age newcomers in Kamniške? What were the climate conditions like at that time, what was the environment like, the flora and fauna that was food for the people of that time? Dr. will reveal all this and more in an interesting lecture phd Matija Turk.

Phd Matija Turk graduated from the Department of Archeology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana in 2004. For his graduation thesis, he processed stone finds from the Mala Triglavca site in the Divaški Karst. In 2011, he received his phd on the subject of stone tools from the Paleolithic site of Divje Baba I. Since 2015, he has been employed at the Institute of Archeology ZRC SAZU, where he is engaged in research into the Early and Middle Stone Ages (Paleolithic and Mesolithic) in Slovenia. In the National Museum of Slovenia, he took care of the new installation of the Paleolithic part of the permanent archaeological exhibition.