064: Dig the Spanish Civil War & the medieval town of Belchite, Spain
What you will learn ?
In the Fieldwork
- How to dig and which archaeological techniques are used.
- Use and handling of the tools that are used during the excavation process.
- Basic principles of stratigraphy.
- Recording the data obtained during the excavation using the Harris Method.
- Locating and mapping the materials of the 1937 battle (ammunition, shrapnel, remains of military equipment) in the old town.
- Recognition of medieval and modern archaeological materials.
- Basic procedures for sample collection.
In the Laboratory
- Cleaning, labelling and typological classification of the recovered objects: medieval ceramics, metals, glass, faunal remains and war materials.
- Relative dating based on the classification of archaeological objects discovered in stratigraphic sequence.
- Preparation of finds inventories.
Theory
- History of the Spanish Civil War and of the 1937 Battle of Belchite.
- Introduction to conflict archaeology and military archaeology.
- History of Belchite: the medieval town, its Jewish quarter and the synagogue.
- Archaeological methodology applied to medieval and modern sites.
