Code   .   PIPA/2022/S-08489
Start   .   2022
Duração   .   36 meses
Investigador Principal   .  João Muralha Cardoso (CHAM)

Institutions

Funding Entities

Grampus Heritage

Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Main Research Unit

Host Institution

Partnerships

Associação cultural, desportiva e recreativa de Freixo de Numão

ArqueoVento studies the communities of Recent Prehistory that moved in the landscape of the current Alto Douro and that "inscribed" in this landscape a set of marks (intentional or not), which today we are beginning to perceive and study; the lasting monumentalization of some archaeological sites, the almost invisibility of others, their variability of geomorphological implantations and their temporalities. This diversity would correspond to the specific creation of a territory, where a community identity seems to assert itself and the consolidation of the agro-pastoral process seems to be taking place.

Goals

The main goal of the project is to study, through archaeological excavation, what was Castanheiro do Vento; its architecture, its diverse occupation, its internal organization and its materials.

Another major objective of the last few years of the project has been to turn the excavation of the Castanheiro do Vento site into a school excavation. To give students studying archaeology, the opportunity to begin their fieldwork and sometimes to carry out academic work on various aspects of the site or the territory.