Currently, the demand in pedagogical theory and practice for adequate modern development of pedagogical and educational practices to include students of different ages in productive (including socially significant) activities is increasingly expanding. The crisis state of the value-sense sphere of modern society, which many researchers considered, was the expansion of mass culture with low cultural standards and patterns that were characteristic of it, the decline in importance of many traditional social institutions of inheritance, in our opinion, update the appeal to the content of historical and cultural heritage, including the native land, which can be a self-sufficient source for the creation of attitude towards sociocultural reality among adolescents.To enrich social experience and socially acceptable and approved behaviours and communication. The purpose of the work is to theoretically substantiate the pedagogical capabilities of the children's-adult community of the archaeological camp «Return to the Origins» in the conditions of the active development by adolescents of historical and cultural heritage. We believe that the creation and operation of a more or less permanent child-adult community may be effective in this regard. (D.V. Grigoriev, I.Yu. Shustova) on the basis of an archaeological camp «Return to the Origins» as a unique platform and pedagogical «laboratory» for the interaction of adolescents with the content and meanings of historical and cultural heritage through inclusion in various types of activities (search, research, educational, leisure, etc.) and promotion due to this in the accumulation of positive experience of a value and moral attitude to such a heritage, Another and society as a whole. Archeology acts in this context as a subculture significant for adolescents, becoming a member of which, a teenager – a participant in the expedition – productively interiors the system of traditional national values that become personally significant for him.