📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Archaeological field works and laboratory survey..
💼 What the programme involves
TRAVELLING INSTRUCTIONS:
If participants can't arrive directly from their original town to Fregenal de la Sierra (Badajoz, Spain), they will have to travel by bus to the city preferably from Madrid (Madrid, Spain) or Sevilla (Andalucía, Spain), as these cities are better communicated with Fregenal de la Sierra (Badajoz, Spain).
To know more about the transports' schedule and the different possible itineraries, participants should write an e-mail to the work camp organization, as they could offer them an actualized data.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN:
Spanish (preferably) English and Portuguese.
THINGS TO BRING:
European Health Card for EU volunteers.
The archaeological excavations in the summer in this region tend to develop under extreme heat and dry climate, making it very convenient to wear light clothing required for the proper transfer. Footwear must ensure foot comfort while performing the work permit safely. It is also advisable to bring caps or hats to protect from solar radiation and sunglasses and sunscreen broad spectrum or the type of skin. Similarly, it is advisable to use knee pads because much of the excavation will take place from this position. All the tools needed to perform the work will be provided by the organization.
SPECIFIC GOALS:
- To intervene directly in an archaeological excavation as an investigator that has been developed for several years.
- To know the strategies and methods of excavation cave and open area.
- Giving back to the recovery of the historical values of the Monument.
- Provide operational tools that enable the participant to the recognition, documentation and analysis of structures and archaeological materials.
- Knit a network of cooperation among participants and organizers agents beyond the development of the Field of Labor (hereinafter CT) in order to achieve seamless, crating an extension of the educational experience designed to maintain professional contact equally beneficial for both parties.
- Start participants on the principle of stewardship as central axis on which to articulate human relationships and professionals in an environment of teamwork
- Disseminate the results of the C.T. through an interactive activity that involves the transmission of understandable, but subdued, the villagers of the participants host, thus giving positive feedback or return of the knowledge society.
- Promote values of resilience among participants taking into account that start in a demanding job but one that can make huge personal and professional satisfaction.
INTERNAL RULES:
The Submitter must ensure at all times enjoy the learning experience trying to maintain an attitude of commitment and respect for their peers. Field work can be tough at times, so the volunteer must show solidarity with the work done by the other teammates. Issues concerning the organization and coexistence should be accepted and assumed by each participant.
EMERGENCY NUMBER: 112
Hipólito Collado Giraldo (Codirector). Tfno.: 655385630
José Ramón Bello Rodrigo (Codirector). Tfno.:626704684
Miguel Romero (Jefe de Sección de Programas Juveniles) Tfno.:924008173
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Special dietary needs and any other condition or limitation that prevents the normal development of participant activities raised here must be notified prior to the Dirección Field Word.
It is very important that all the volunteers CHECK REGULARLY THEIR CONTACT EMAIL for further information about the work camp, as some details, especially the contact and emergency numbers, may change. Mind the junk mail folder as sometimes our emails end up in there.
🏠 Accommodation on site
As Accommodation we have available a shelter of interpretive center on the nature of Fuentes de Leon, a wide place inside the town.
🍲 Food
The breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served in a restaurant whose recipes its based in a typicall Spanish gastronomy.
📍 About the location
The work camp Fuentes de león takes place in Fuentes de León, 30 km far from the village of Fregenal de la Sierra, 115km far from the city of Sevilla.
🎒 Leisure activities
Workshop of multiple disciplines linked to prehistory and Medieval archaeology, such: zooarchaeology, paleobotanix, experimental archaeology, etc. We will make an excursion to other and nearest archaeological sites.
⚠️ Requirements
PARTICIPANT PROFILE:
The volunteer must come loaded with eager to work and willing to open their minds to new approaches in the field. Preferentially seek people with experience in field archeology or who are taking the degree of archeology and history.
🤝 Meeting point
The meeting point will be on 11th of july 2016 in the bus station of village of Fregenal de la Sierra, at 18:00 h. Participants will be picked up there by the work camp organization. Participants who could not arrive at that time that day for transport reasons and should arrive the day before or after, will be picked up individually by the organization. They will have to communicate then, via e-mail, their arriving time.
ℹ️ Additional information
CONTACTS:
Hipólito Collado Giraldo (Jefe Sección Arqueología) Tfno.: 924007142
e-mail:
[email protected]
José Ramón Bello Rodrigo (Arqueólogo) Tfno.: 924008581
e-mail:
[email protected]
(Secretaria Dr. Gral. Patrimonio) Tfno.: 924007042
Dioni Saldaño.