Cultural education has the purpose for helping humans acquire the symbolic system of a society and the way of life and values shared among its members, resulting from their intellectual, spiritual and creative activities. In this regard, interest in cultural education can be regarded as a means to survive in the society by meeting such needs. Recently, there has been a growing desire among individuals to acquire extensive cultural knowledge. In line with this trend, many museums and professional institutions have been actively developing and teaching contents using archaeological and historical resources since the 2000s.
Culports is a combined concept of culture and sports, focusing on training culturally talented persons to achieve the sustainability of cultural heritage by combining cultural elements with experimental ones. From a cultural ecology perspective, Culports can share the cultural value of landscape resources to the learners and play the role in helping them understand properly cultural heritage and acquiring cultural knowledge through various experiences.
In this regard, hiking, combining various experience programs with educational elements (history, geography, vegetation, etc.) in addition to mind-and-body training, can lead to a deeper level of cultural knowledge as part of self-directed learning. Having learners experience the lives of prehistoric hiking has an archaeological meaning as follows: 1) it can help them understand various archaeological elements such as resource acquisition, utilization, and behavioral patterns of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. 2) it can help them understand mobility, which is the survival strategy of the huntergatherers in prehistoric times. 3) it can help them understand and acquire various technological associations of how hunter-gatherers in prehistoric times obtained and used resources.
Although the proposal for this training program is still in its infancy, hiking as an experience learning program allows learners to learn how people in the prehistoric age used natural scenery, and so it is considered to be highly effective in understanding the lifestyle and culture of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. In addition, it can help them improve problem-solving, thinking, and cognitive skills, enhance physical and mental abilities, and thus ultimately contribute to expanding their knowledge related to humanities and social sciences.