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. Saturday 26
Title. Archeology in the Spanish Civil War. Archaeological excavations in the concentration camps of Castuera.
Place and time. Archaeological Museum at 11.30 hours.
Speaker. Alfredo Gonzalez Ruibal. Heritage Laboratory researcher at the Institute of Galician Studies Father Sarmiento.
No need for thousands of years elapse to find archaeological remains to help us interpret a company or to any previous event. A team, sto energy credits , of researchers from the Laboratory of the Institute of Galician Studies Padre Sarmiento, belonging to the Higher Council for Scientific Research, based in Santiago de Compostela, worked last year in the concentration camp site of Castuera, declared Well of Cultural Inters. The upcoming Saturday, its head Alfredo Gonzalez Ruibal, will expose the results of this research during a conference to be, power leveling wow, in the Archaeological Museum of Badajoz.
The excavation was part of a study on architecture of the Civil War and Dictatorship in Spain (1936-1950) which develops from about four years, partly funded by the CSIC and the Norwegian Council of Culture.
The project aims to tell the story of the war and its aftermath using the archaeological evidence. Faced with more conventional story based, eve online isk, on documents in general, "says Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal, we think you can write a story travs of material evidence. The former can match the history that historians have been built, but also can make things that do not appear in the texts.
Gonzalez Ruibal said that the state of the wreckage of war in which work is often highly variable and, while there are some excellently preserved, there are other very destroyed, especially in areas close to cities.
The archeology of events that have not even reached the century starts to prevail and the investigator explains that in England it seems almost old because all archeology is done and the years 70, 80 and even today.
Gonzalez Ruibal team Digging for fifteen days in the concentration camps of Castuera in September of last year. His goal was to approach the way the place was esctructurado during operation. Also it was to get an idea of aahow were the conditions in the field and contrast their findings with the testimony of people who were all hospitalized.
The researchers found that the field was very wrong because even meet the standards of the time. No latrines or septic tanks were regulated, which guaranteed the unhealthiness of it.
The objects related to daily life of the field were revealing. Showed traces of sardines and tuna cans that were part of men and who will join the soup ever spoken of in oral testimony. Medicine also appeared to reveal the existence of a sort of nurse among which bean vials of morphine, for example.
All this explains life in the field of Castuera, but they found was evidence of how the death of all those who were killed
Alfredo Gonzalez Ruibal says it will be interesting to find the graves where they are the bodies of dead prisoners. There are several stories about where I can be located in the surrounding countryside, but that other work will require, in principle, was not in our objectives, answers.
The effect that these findings may have on various polmicas generated by the Historic Memory Law, said that its function is not to change the orientation of the discussions but show the reality, in this case that of concentration camps. Material evidence to help us better understand a historical phenomenon argues.
Another place that has investigated this team was a labor camp that was located near Madrid, which differs markedly from the field for his typology Castuera. The concentration camp is more terrible hard YMS where prisoners go first, he says, while the criminal detachment is the end of the string eslabn prison, the place where prisoners redeem their sentences by working and eventually become free.