XXXIV Jurassic Symposium

On September 12-13, the 34th Jura Symposium was held at the Educational and Scientific Center of the ZPKWŚ in Smolen under the slogan "Culture - Landscape - Nature". The organizer of the Symposium was the Complex of Landscape Parks of the Silesian Voivodeship. It was attended by employees and doctoral students of the IA UMK in Toruń. Topics related to research conducted at sites located in the Udorka Valley were presented, mainly regarding the prehistoric chocolate flint mine at Poręba Dzierżna 24 in the Udorka Valley, which we also presented in the field. Ph.D. Maciej T. Krajcarz  and Dr. Magdalena Krajcarz from the IA NCU presented isotopic methods used in the reconstruction of the paleoecology of Holocene and Pleistocene predatory mammals from the Jura area. Dr. Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk and her team talked about the chocolate flint mine in the Udorka Valley, the results of current research and future prospects. PhD student M.Sc. Sara Mandera presented the valuable raw material chocolate flint from the petrographic and geophysical perspective. During a field trip at the site, PhD student Hubert Binnebesel talked about flint workshops and the problems of their original location in the mining field in Poręba Dzierżna 24.