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Summer School
Researching non-industrial agriculture

Based on the previous experience gained from organizing two Summer Schools within the EARTH European project, funded by the ESF, this initiative has the main objective of offering the participants the necessary tools for studying non-industrial agriculture in its social and cultural context. This focus on socio-cultural aspects will allow students to understand the historical processes which are behind the development of agriculture from the beginning, and witness the conservation of a rich cultural and biological heritage in some parts of Europe.
The great diversity of professor and student curricula enables a multi-disciplinary approach to different aspects of agriculture (crops, soil, animals, landscapes, techniques, human groups, etc.) from very different perspectives such as archaeology (archaeobiology, landscape archaeology, functional analysis), anthropology, history, geography, agronomy and plant genetics, which greatly enrich the content of the School's program and the training of participants.
This School is an experimental laboratory in which instruction is articulated in three different modules: traditional classroom teaching, laboratory practice and fieldwork. Analytical themes are related with essential aspects of traditional agriculture: techniques, crop evolution, landscape transformation, stockbreeding and pastoralism, ethnography, etc. Laboratory practice will complement theoretical knowledge, expanding the knowledge of methodologies belonging to different scientific fields (archaeobiology, functional analysis, etc.), always related to non-industrial agriculture. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in different agricultural activities thanks to the active collaboration of local farmers, which endows this School with a unique experience in forming future specialists.

Direction
Leonor Peña-Chocarro and Marta Moreno García

Directed at
Professionals and postgraduate students.

Interest areas
Historical and Prehistorical Archaeology. Agronomy. Biology. Anthropology. Geography. Cultural and Natural Heritage.

Location
Proaza (Asturias)

Dates
August 22-28, 2011

Number of participants
15

Language
Spanish

Duration
7 days

Ho
48

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

Secretary and information
Ana Delia Rodríguez
anadelia.rodriguez@cchs.csic.es
www.heritage-technoscience.com

Professors
Classes will be given by members of the CSD-TCP program. Other specialists, both national and international, will also collaborate.

Programa preliminar

The program will revolve around two main themese: archaeobiology and ethnography, including all the related disciplines.

Classes will be divided in theoretical and practical modules, with particular attention to:

1. Theory

1. Research methodology
2. Pre-industrial agriculturel
3. Stockbreeding in the rural world
4. Cultural landscapes

 2. Practice

1. Laboratory practice
   
   1. Archaeobotany
   2. Archaeozoology
   3. Geoarchaeology
   4. Functional analysis
2. Fieldwork
   1. Ethnographic activity
   2. Participation in agricultural activities

In order to complement this program, a visit to the Asturian People's Museum (Museo del Pueblo de Asturias) in Gijón will take place.