📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Josep Carol Escolta Foundation, created by Escoltes Catalans, has the mission of promoting the education of children and young people in responsible citizenship and in the values of Catalan lay Scouting, through support for educational and associative work of Escoltes Catalans, of the generation of reflection and thought and of provision of services in the educational environment. Therefore, the Foundation works to promote the values of democracy, secularism, catalanism, coeducation, commitment, critical spirit, honesty, solidarity, participation and love for nature.
💼 What the programme involves
Delimitation of the work and access areas, to facilitate the technical tasks and the movement and security of the visitors. Stratigraphic excavation of the given area. It is intended to excavate a small area of the site in order to improve the research done so far. It aims to recover objects and structures in the village that help us to understand how the locals lived, what kind of habitats they had, what practices / activities they did there, what social system they had, etc. This year the objective is to review some of the rooms excavated the previous year, and to open a new sector following the section of wall of closing and terraced rooms already discovered. If feasible, an attempt would be made to follow the closing wall (taking into account the work done in 1980 and 1981) along the entire perimeter of the town, so that the total area of the settlement could be determined. Study of the materials. Not only will you have to learn to recognize the materials, learn how to document and extract them in situ at the site, but you will also work in the afterlife in a separate enabled space. In this space, outside the site, the cleaning, stamping, inventory and identification of the recovered materials will be continued.
Interpretation of the work done. We will try to explain not only each procedure to be followed, but also why these and their objectives in global research. The aim is to show that it is always necessary to keep track of the global work being done (that is, the whole group), in order to understand what and why everything is done and, finally, to be able to come up with proposals interpretations of the space we have dug to answer the questions that motivated us to do so (who lived there, how they lived, what activities they did, etc.)
Space conditioning. Finally, it will be necessary to leave the finished space in optimal condition to be visited and to understand the work done, as well as to carry out the conservation tasks (cover the weakest areas again) so that the work done is not degraded. and they are lost.
Apart from fieldwork at the site, talks and activities will also be held to raise awareness of the profession of archeologist, as well as the related disciplines. Also will be an activity / presentation on the world of the Iberians in particular in order to publicize this culture and society, very unknown to the rest of the world.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Detail of sleeping space: The Municipal Pool has a two-storey building with large multipurpose spaces for use in different activities of the City Council. During the work camp we will occupy the upstairs which has a large sleeping space, pantry, patio and dining area. The team of people in charge will have a small closed room to store the material. This room will be used to store the participants' belongings and thus have the total room.
Detail of the kitchen space: The kitchen space will be located outside taking advantage of concrete barbecue spaces under a porch. The hob area is stable, secure and ventilated. The laundry, pantry and cooling area is located within 5 meters of the space
Dining Area Detail: The dining room space used is located outside as the patio has large wooden tables with benches and plenty of shade. In case of too hot or bad weather the dining tables would be located touching the equipment under the porch.
Detail of the personal hygiene space: The facilities have 6 toilets and 6 showers. Being the showers of the pool the space is separated for men and women. The showers and toilets space has a daily cleaning service and, therefore, is a clean and tidy space.
Information about the menu: There will be a basic, vegetarian and vegan menu. As well as allergies and intolerances that may exist
📍 About the location
We understand this time as controlled time but not directed by the educational team. We believe that this time is very important as young people enhance their creativity and see the evolution of the group and the degree of cohesion they can reach. Various materials are usually added: balls, cards, ...
During this time we will not carry out any directed activity that requires your attention and it will be when you take the opportunity to strengthen the young relationship / educational team on an affective level. In this way we will have a space where young people feel close to the adult referent outside the family environment.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants have to bring comfortable clothes for the technical work.