Direção-Geral do Património Cultural

This advanced course proposes the artificial excavation of a fictitious site (Cabeço da Espigueira) using a geoarchaeological approach, followed by analyses of the sediments and the study of the archaeological record recovered therein through the lenses of Archaeosciences (e.g. stone tools, human and non-human bones, charcoal, seeds, domestic and funerary structures). The environmental scenarios experienced by the different generations of human communities who occupied the site will be reconstructed through the analyses of sediment cores collected from the alluvial plain of a nearby rivulet, particularly through palynological studies.   

The objective of this workshop is to introduce students to the process of Past reconstruction in its multiple dimensions (economic, social, technological, and environmental), using concepts, methods and tools of different scientific domains that are part of the Archaeosciences.