Short-term (2 to 4 weeks) "heritage protection" project in Russia

In this camp you will have a chance to touch one of the most mysterious stone constructions - dolmens. The Caucasian dolmens represent a unique type of pre-historic architecture, built with precisely dressed large stone blocks. The stones were, for example, shaped into 90-degree angles, to be used as corners or were curved to make a perfect circle. The monuments date between the end of the 4th millennium and the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C.
While generally unknown in the rest of Europe, these Russian megaliths are equal to the great megaliths of Europe in terms of age and quality of architecture, but are still of an unknown origin. In spite of the variety of Caucasian monuments, they show strong similarities with megaliths from different parts of Europe and Asia, like those found in the Iberian Peninsula, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Israel and India. A range of hypothesis has been put forward to explain these similarities and the building of megaliths on the whole, but still it remains unclear.

The village is named Pshada, not so far from the coast line, in an old forest, and by a river. To access there, one needs to take a train (takes ~2 days) or plane from Moscow to Krasnodar, then there is a bus from Krasnodar to Pshada village.

We will make small stone arrangements, to put in value the dolmens, such as walls and steps, to arrange the place for visitors and make it more attractive, and maybe even some small sculptures if we want to put time in it. The work is physical. It teaches the old way of construction with stone without any mortar or cement, known as "dry stone".

We will live in tents, please, bring your sleeping bag and warm clothes – nights will be fresh. We will cook ourselves. Very basic conditions!

Other activities are manly hiking, discovery the huge pre-historic area, and meet the very welcoming people from the village...there will be possibility to go to the Black Sea.

English at the project, Russian with locals.