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The Chief Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, accompanied by the director of the Institute for Youth, Veronica Lopez, and Mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, Domingo Aranda, visited the International Work Camp Archaeology Caravaca de la Cruz , where a group of young people from different countries participate in the excavation of 'Cerro de las Fuentes. "
In total there are 17 volunteers, aged 18 to 26 years, working together in this eighth edition of the international labor camp and coming from Spain (Madrid and Murcia), Poland, Japan, Italy, France and South Korea.
Since last Sunday, July 27 until August 10, participants will work in the archaeological excavation of the site of the "Cerro de las Fuentes' situated in the hamlet of Archivel caravaqueña.
It is a small settlement of about 4400 m² with a castle late-Republican Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great and original and endowed with a good defense system first century
C.
Excavation is providing valuable data to reconstruct the military activity of the contenders in the upper basin of the rivers and Quípar Argos and produced a major war episode was never mentioned by historical sources.
Also below the castle ruins were found ruins of a village from the Bronze Age and over the crests of the walls of the urban grid of Emirate times, corresponding to the last phase of occupation of the 'Hill of the sources'.
On this site young people make cleaning of archaeological excavation, namely the deposit area located between the two gate towers of the castellum, in rooms that flank the entrance hall and the building of the wall structures Roman republican phase of the Emirate houses.
During these tasks are carried out registration procedures stratigraphic record sheets, drawings of plants and sections, archaeological photography and insertion of the structures exposed in the general topography of the site.
During his stay in the labor camp volunteers also perform a number of other leisure activities and leisure, cultural and ethnographic visits to different cities in the Region of Murcia, entertainment activities, parties and partying, astronomy workshops, massage and leather and thread, and environmental pathways.
The activities in this field of work are part of the campaign 'Summer Youth 2008' launched by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports through the Institute of Youth.
Source: CARM
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