The book consists of a description of amber recovery throughout history, supplemented by old maps, engravings, photographs, and recent photos showing how amber mining looks today. The core of the publication is dedicated to techniques for extracting amber from marine deposits by fishing with nets and dredgers, as well as with the help of dredgers and divers, and methods for searching for amber on the seashore during and after storms using spades or forks amongst the twigs and seaweed colloquially called \"garbage\" on the Vistula Spit. The book also includes information on land-based amber mining \u2013 shaft mining as well as modern hydrotechnical mining.<\/p>\n
The publication was co-funded by: Miko\u0142ajczyki Amber Tomasz Miko\u0142ajczyk, the Amber Museum in Krakow, the International Amber Association, the Local Tourist Organisation The Amber Coast<\/em> in Stegna, as well as the organisers of the World Amber Fishing Championships in Jantar. <\/p>\n The edition is bilingual: English-Polish, A4 format, 100 illustrations, softcover, 58 pages. The newly published book by Eryk Popkiewicz, \u201eAmber Prospecting on the Vistula Spit in the Light of Ethnographic and Historical Sources\u201d, will premiere at the Amberif trade fair.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Pozyskiwanie bursztynu na Mierzei Wi\u015blanej - Amber Portal","description":"A newly published book by Eryk Popkiewicz, \u201eAmber Prospecting on the Vistula Spit in the Light of Ethnographic Sources,\" will premiere at the Amberif trade fair."},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,160],"sekcja":[],"class_list":["post-16764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informacje","tag-amberif","tag-polawianie-bursztynu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16764"},{"taxonomy":"sekcja","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sekcja?post=16764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Adam Marsza\u0142ek Publishing House<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"