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Through the scientific dissemination project "Archeology and intellectual disability: digging up prejudices", a group of people with intellectual disabilities have had the opportunity to act as scientists in a real archaeological site, specifically in the Cueva del Arco (Cieza), facing the Research work of this discipline.
With this initiative, the Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation of the University of Murcia (UCC + i of the UMU), aims to break the social barriers that exist towards the people of this group that are often excluded from the disciplines Scientific
"The activities of scientific dissemination try to bring science to the whole society. However, this is not always the case, since there are many groups that are forgotten." Says UMU researcher Ignacio Martín Lerma, responsible for the project.
From the need to include these people in this field of science, this project arose, he explains.
It is, without doubt, a novel activity that seeks to bring archeology and the study of our origins to people with intellectual disabilities from different occupational centers in the Region of Murcia and Almeria.
All of them could feel like real professionals throughout the month of September, since they participated in an inclusive way in all the activities carried out by the team led by Martín Lerma in Cieza.
His experiences in the cave will be transferred through one of the selected participants, Sergio Rodríguez Dengra, to different occupational centers in the Region where other students, through workshops, lectures and simulations of archaeological excavations will be able to know firsthand what the field work of an archaeologist and his contributions to the scientific world.
According to José Manuel López Nicolás, the coordinator of the UCC + i of the UMU, another of the main objectives of the project was for people with intellectual disabilities to see in the figure of Sergio Rodríguez a role model and serve as a reference for them.
The project will culminate with the temporary exhibition of the materials resulting from recreation in the occupational centers, in order to bring archeology and prehistory closer to all the members of these institutions, family members and monitors, among which will be the UMU.
The project has the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), as well as the direct participation of the Asprodalba association through its technical director and provincial manager of "Plena Inclusión Andalucía" Ignacio Martín Cuadrado.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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