Let’s build an Iberian house - experimental archaeology

Name: Let’s build an Iberian house - experimental archaeology
Start: 2025-04-12
End: 2025-04-21
Location: Spain

Spain Farming Construction Farming Construction +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

We're witnessing rapid changes in our environment & the protagonists of it ought to be locals aiming to keep it alive & attractive to live in through sustainable land cultivation. In ART we engage in 4 areas: Culture: we grew out of our care for culture, to recover the history and heritage of our region Urban environment: We defend responsible and sustainable growth in the Natural Park Territory:We collaborate with hiking centers and protect nature by cultivating natural forests and agriculture Infrastructures:We create good quality infrastructures to prevent the depopulation of the region; by reconstructing one of the houses in the Iberian site of Morranda (now benifassa) using experimental archaeology you can better understand the Iberian world. https://www.instagram.com/artbenifassa/

💼 What the programme involves

The work will be mostly manual and it will consist in working with clay to construct a replica house from the Iberian period, using experimental archaeology techniques. We will have the support provided by a collaboration with technicians in biodynamic construction and two others in experimental archaeology.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation will be provided in a shared house of the village Ballestar.

📍 About the location

A space close to the village of Ballestar, a small village in the Natural Park of Tinença de Benifassí . Castelló, Comunitat Valenciana Ballestar (Carrer Major, 27,12599 El Ballestar Castelló)

⚠️ Requirements

No special skills requiered to attend the camp.

ℹ️ Additional information

IMPORTANT Additional Fee: In 2025 many SCI workcamps will have an additional fee of €50.00 (ONLY FOR PARTNERS AND CONTACTS) If you apply through an SCI branch the fee will be included in the fee you pay to your sending branch. If you apply through a partner organisation you will have to pay the fee on arrival at the project; direct to the hosting branch or through different payment platforms. When accepted on the project we will give you more details of the various payment options.

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