The article presents an overview and intellectual foundations of ethnoarchaeology in Toruń from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century. Its emergence was closely tied to the interdisciplinary collaboration between Polish archaeologists and ethnologists, as well as to inspirations drawn from the Kraków-Warsaw school of ethnology (New Polish Ethnology) and the Poznań School of Methodology founded by Jerzy Kmita. Ethnoarchaeologists based in Toruń—particularly Andrzej P. Kowalski and Andrzej Z. Bokiniec—combined methodological precision with a critical reflection on the cultural foundations of research into prehistoric communities. Special emphasis was placed on studies concerning symbolism, magical thinking, and the cultural conditioning of representations in prehistory. The article also highlights the role this intellectual tradition played in the establishment and development of the independent Department of Ethnology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It discusses collaboration with intellectual disciples and associates of Kmita, notably Artur Dobosz, as well as research initiatives originating in this milieu, such as the Eidolon and Aesthetics in Archaeology projects. Although institutional ethnoarchaeology in Toruń declined due to educational reforms and staff changes in Polish academia, the author underscores its significance as a unique scholarly and cultural experience that left a lasting imprint on the landscape of Polish humanities. The history of Toruń ethnoarchaeology is portrayed as a creative, though concluded, chapter in the wider narrative of collaboration between archaeology and cultural anthropology.