Learning Outcomes

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.