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The article discusses Andrzej Muszyński’s autobiographical book Dom ojców [House of Fathers] in the context of geological turn. In the first part, the author maps the centro-peripheral conditions of the Olkusz land. In the second part, using methods of environmental history, the author shows how, in the era of the Anthropocene and global challenges related to polycrisis, to establish a relationship with the local community. The article discusses how, by transcending the historical conditions of plebeianism, the writer finds a non-antagonistic identity and a positive relationship with his rural heritage. Muszyński reaches into deep time, into the vertical scale, to find the foundation of identity in prehistory. He finds support in a sense of connection with species of humans living on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland since the Pleistocene, as well as with other organic and mineral actors of the Upland. The author introduces the category of the Anthropocene narrative of the Jurassic. She also utilizes the concept of geontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At Kabazi V, level III/4-2, the entire debris from the manufacture of a bifacial preform was found deposited in a small anthropogenic pit. The bifacial preform itself was missing. The fact that it was possible to refit all larger blanks, as well as several chips, from the pit, whereas refits with artifacts discarded on the surface of the corresponding archeological level were not found, underlines the character of the pit’s contents as a closed find sensu stricto. The only explanation for the presence of chips of very small size from the same nodule, alongside the larger ones, in the pit fill is the use of an apron to collect all detached items during the process of flaking. Among the numerous anthropogenic pits from the Crimean Middle Paleolithic, the one found at Kabazi V, level III/4-2, and two other examples from Zaskalanya V and Zaskalnaya VI stand out for the intentional deposition of carefully selected artifacts in them. The sizes of the pits match the volumes of the artifacts deposited, which emphasizes the close relationship between the construction of the pits and the artifacts’ deposition. This article explores the significance of the three cases of artifact deposition referred to above to our understanding of segmented production processes and of why these depositions occurred. The most evident interpretation is that they were caches of equipment stored as insurance for unforeseen circumstances, which is indicative of substantial planning depth and a recurrent use of logistical territories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]