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A total of 16 young volunteers from eleven communities are participating this month in the labor camp 'Adrianvs 2016', which runs until July 29 at the site of Los Torrejones in Yecla.
Young people aged between 18 and 30 years, perform maintenance, cleaning, survey and excavation.
The CEOs of Youth and Cultural Heritage, Francisco Sanchez and Maria Comas, visited today, with the mayor of Yecla, Marcos Ortuño, participants of this field of work "can continue the important work of excavation, consolidation and in value of this important site and our historical and cultural "heritage, as stated Comas.
The head of Cultural Property added that activities and "is still committed to the research fields of our region such as Los Torrejones, which continues to give us new clues about the romanization of the Peninsula" and recalled that "in February proceeded to the opening of the file for its declaration as Cultural Interest, a process which will give maximum protection this site. "
The work camp 'Adrianvs' introduces participants to the world of archeology, both in the aspect of fieldwork and laboratory tasks.
They will acquire knowledge to understand the processes occurring in the archaeological excavation, "enjoying and knowing first hand this great tourist and cultural value and participating in a leisure young contributing to their education and training, may awaken some new vocation, "said Sanchez.
The 16 young people staying these days in the Municipal hostel Yecla, have come from the communities of Castilla La Mancha, Andalusia, Castilla y Leon, Basque Country, Valencia, Cantabria, Asturias, Aragon, La Rioja Catalonia and the Canary Islands.
In addition to the tasks of the site, under the direction of the director of the labor camp, Virginia Mora, and the archaeologist-director of excavations, Liborio Ruiz, young people "also have been able to complement your stay in our region with participatory activities such as visits and tours of the old town of Yecla, Monte Arabí, Playa de Calblanque and Salinas de San Pedro, "explained the CEO of Youth.
It has also organized additional workshops such as 'Introduction to the restoration of archaeological materials' and the participants were able to see the bust of the Emperor Hadrian;
an important piece of marble found in 135 AD The Torrejones the end of 2014.
The field work Yecla developed through collaboration CaixaBank has provided around promoting European Youth Card in collaboration with the Department of Youth.
'Labor camps' is a youth volunteer program that takes place in all communities in collaboration with various youth organizations.
the site
The Roman site of Los Torrejones responds to the type called rustic villa, a farm from Roman times whose occupation extended from the first century BC to the sixth century AD In 1984 systematic excavations, which lasted until 1989 and allowed to expose started an important architectural ensemble of the I-III centuries AD, in addition to finding a phase of expansion of the fourth century AD
A decade later, the excavations resume under the direction of archaeologist and director of the Municipal Archaeological Museum, Liborio Ruiz, performing different interventions until now have allowed precise five construction phases;
the last one for the period of Almohad domination in the mid-twelfth century.
The materials has provided the site have been abundant and rich: bas-reliefs in marble remains of statuary, coins, ceramics, mosaics and more recently, polychrome stucco linked to a monumental Hadrian era that came to light in late 2014 and associated with the exceptional statuary found in the campaign: the bust of Hadrian and a head and feet of Aphrodite.
Source: CARM
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