A science day “Science and Us” was held in honour of the 110th birthday of the Kadrina High School on Friday, March 8. During the event that lasted for the whole day, pupils got the chance to become acquainted with different research fields and to pick workshops where to participate in. In the frames of the science day, an information day about archaeology was held for 2 age groups (classes 5-8 and 9-12). The registration for the workshops was opened already on March 1 and according to the teachers’ feedback, archaeology was of great interest. The first students registered already before any information about the workshop had been published and the list was filled very fast.

The archaeology workshop was carried out by Viire Pajuste (University of Tartu). She introduced the archaeologists’ work principles as well as the main concepts and research methods. Viire Pajuste covered the topic of experimental archaeology more thoroughly and gave an overview of the Rõuge Viking Age house project that was carried out in the frames of her MA thesis. The project offered a lot of new information about archaic work techniques and Iron Age living conditions. To give the pupils a better understanding about the living conditions of that time, she used many pictures and drew parallels with the present-day living environment. Unfortunately, the 45-minute-class was not long enough to introduce the whole Rõuge project (at least to students in classes 9-12). To learn more about it, it was decided altogether to go overtime and to extend the workshop by using the following class break.