Aragón en guerra. Construyendo memoria desde la arqueología del conflicto [Aragon at war. Building memory from the conflict archaeology]

Abstract

Despite forty years of democracy, reminiscences of Franco’s dictatorship remain latent in many aspects of everyday Spanish life. The mass graves of murdered inhabiting hundreds of ditches and fields of Spain, are a material reflection of this social, political and humanitarian anachronism that is preserved as a witness of violence and harshness of war and forty years of repression that followed it. The archaeology of conflict is the most precise tool to bring to light and rescue the real version of events, to retrieve the ripped out pages of a story that is not yet taught in Spanish schools.