European Archaeology Skills Exchange (EASE)
FULL- Portugal-Castanheiro do Vento
Dates: 6th July to 9th August 2008
Number of UK Participants: 5
Duration: 5 weeks
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The site of Castanheiro do Vento (North-Eastern Portugal) has a complex stone architecture and was built from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age. This kind of architecture is, in particular, characteristic for the Iberian Peninsula and Southern France, and has been the object of investigations by several archaeological schools over a number of years. This will be the first year that Grampus Heritage have worked with Castanheiro do Vento and is without doubt, an exciting new excavation for UK undergraduate students to be a part of. This programme is for five weeks and is funded by the Leonardo da Vinci grant.
In 1990, one group of Portuguese archaeologists from the University of Porto
(http://www.architectures.home.sapo.pt) and the Cultural Association (ACDR)
of Freixo de Numão (http://www.acdr-freixo.pt) introduced different
field methods and the manner in which data coming from the digs was interpreted.The
problematic of the complex stone architecture dating from the third to second
millennium BCE, however, is far from conclusive in its interpretation. This
group of archaeologists has entered into an ongoing dialogue with many other
researchers around the world. Since 1998, the excavations at Castanheiro
do Vento has taken place in a very friendly and open-minded working climate.
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Type of Work: This is an open air excavation located in the top a a hill of easy access (the large area being studied is not protected from sun or rain, etc.; in the place we have just a small house to keep working tools as a basic logistic support to the excavation - people are daily transported from the village of Freixo de Numão until this point and back). We may need also a small team, whose elements may change, in a rotation system, to work in the local museum of Freixo de Numão (Prehistoric section): to range things, to wash, to mark, to store information about previously recovered artifacts, under the orientation of the directors of excavation and of Ângela Carneiro.
Daily Timetable:
8 h. - breakfast at Freixo
9 h - 13 - morning period of work
13-15 - lunch (hot meal served in Freixo)
15,30 - 18 h - evening period of work
Please bring clothes for all kinds of weather, including rain; bag, camping
bottle and solar protection cream; do not forget your sleeping bag.
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Medieval Castle |
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