Excavación en Portugal

Un colega portugués nos ha mandado de una excavación en yacimientos del Paleolítico en el Norte de Portugal, para los que quieran conocer mundo este verano. Para solicitar más información dirigirse a ana.m.vale@gmail.com

A continuación os adjuntamos un poco de que se trata:

Dear colleagues and other possible interested people - please spread these news as most as you can – thank you very much: Excavations in the prehistoric site of CASTANHEIRO DO VENTO (HORTA DO DOURO - VILA NOVA DE FOZ, NE OF PORTUGAL) JULY 2007. About the region and the site – please visit the page (although notupdated): http://www.architectures.home.sapo.pt. This is an extremely beautiful region of NE Portugal where Porto wine is produced

Period : 1 – 28 JULY 2007. REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE - SEND YOUR SHORT CV – see below. CONDITIONS TO PARTICIPATE:

* real motivation and interest in archaeology – we accept any adult, independently of his/her basic formation or specialization
* please send a brief cv and personal data (name, address, e-mail, etc) to Ana Vale
* directors of the excavation, who are responsible for the acceptance of volunteers: Prof. Oliveira Jorge (Univ. do Porto), Joao Muralha Cardoso (PhD student, University of Porto), Ana Margarida Vale ( PhD student, University of Porto) e GonÃalo Leite Velho (lecturer - Instituto Politecnico de Tomar and PhD student, University of Porto). Local collaboration of Dr. Ãngela Carneiro (Post doc holder of a FCT-Portugal scholarship). Local collaboration of archaeologists from the UK
* showing capacity of integration into a team work, in course of action

Kind of work: 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 until this point and back). We 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.