“Students” of all ages headed to the Quad next to Ebert Art Center on the campus of The College of Wooster April 17 to peer into the past through the eyes of archeologists.

Visitors to the annual College of Wooster Archeology Day event took part in a wide variety of activities, including learning how to use an atlatl, viewing a demonstration of the flintknapping techniques used by Native Americans to make arrow and spear points, and taking part in a simulated archeological dig.

While adults looked over a display featuring ancestral human skull casts illustrating the sequence of evolutionary changes that eventually produced modern humans, younger visitors to Archeology Day used archeologist’s tools to comb through a sand pile for “artifacts,” tried their hand at cave painting on a simulated cave wall, and pieced together shards of pottery to form pots and bowls, much as an archeologist might do.

Hosted by The College of Wooster Archeology Program and the Archeology Student Colloquium, the free event also featured displays by the Wayne County Historical Society and the Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society.