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Summer School
Pre-industrial rural and mining landscapes
(The Pino del Oro Mining Zone)

This School is based on the accumulated experience of research carried out by the Social Structure and Territory-Landscape Archaeology research group in the area. It's main goal is to offer participants direct contact with an interdisciplinary study of pre-industrial rural landscapes, specifically those where Ancient mining activity took place, as well as its historical and social dimensions. Attention will also be paid to the valorization as cultural heritage and its relation with local development.
An integral and specialized vision will be offered of fieldwork, presenting different methods and instrumental techniques. The role of non-destructive techniques and experimental archaeology will be particularly important. Fieldwork will be the basis of the School, but theoretical sessions will also take place, as well as practice sessions regarding the treatment and documentation of the archaeological record.
This proposal has several experimental aspects related to:

• Ancient mining technology and the historical archaeomining context.
• The morphology and structures of an Ancient mining landscape.
• Mining in a non-sectorial perspective of labor in the Ancient world.
• Forms of integral occupation and exploitation of Ancient mining territories.
• Measures for the valorization and exploitation of Ancient mining landscapes as cultural resources.

Working groups will be created in order to have participants offer their particular scientific interests (technical, methodological or theoretical), in a way which stimulates debate among them.

Direction
F.-Javier Sánchez-Palencia

Coordination
Damián Romero and Alejandro Beltrán

Directed to
Professionals and postgraduate students.

Areas of interest
Arqueología prehistórica e histórica. Gestión y difusión del Patrimonio Cultural. Patrimonio geológico y minero. Estudios paleoambientales y Ciencias de la Tierra.

Location
Pino del Oro – Villadepera – Villardiegua de la Ribera (Zamora)

Dates
September 5-11, 2011

Number of participants
15

Language
Spanish

Duration
7 days

Hours
52

Inscription
600€. It includes material, accomodation in rural lodging, living expenses and internal transportation.

Secretaría e información
Ana Delia Rodríguez
anadelia.rodriguez@cchs.csic.es
www.heritage-technoscience.com

Professors
The team will be mainly composed of members of the Archaeology and Social Processes research line of the CCHS and members of the CSD-TCP program. Also, some external experts and specialists on the subject or area will participate.

Programa preliminar

1. Theory

1. Landscape archaeology and pre-industrial rural landscapes
2. Archaeomining. Surveying and identifying mining structures
3. Technology and documentary sources on ancient mining
4. Cartography, topography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

2. Practice

1. Archaeological sites and elements in Pino del Oro and environs: identification and on-site study
2. Identification, documentation and sondage of mining structures and associated settlements. Experimental archaeology applied to mining areas
3. Excavation, documentation and sample collection of fossilized
4. Itineraries through the Pino del Oro mining zone and Peña Redonda