Archaeology Field II

Code: HIS12034L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Archeology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This Curricular Unit aims to provide students with the practical skills, in the field, essential to the exercise of archaeological activity, in terms of archaeological excavations.

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Proteger a vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

Learning Goals

To provide students with direct contact with the reality of archaeological research, through participation in archaeological excavations of sites of chronologies between Prehistory and Protohistory.
Students will learn to identify and register stratigraphic units, types of structures and archaeological remains specific to these chronologies; they should also develop skills in terms of field drawing and photography.
Whenever possible, students will also develop the final work of treatment of the remains in the laboratory.
At the end, they will also have to be able to write a scientific technical report following the guidelines foreseen in the archaeological activity.

1. Archaeological excavation
1.1 methodologies of excavation
1.2 excavation practice
1.3 recording and treatment of archaeological remains in the field
2. The post-excavation: archaeological work in laboratory
3. The preparation of technical-scientific reports in accordance with the legislation in force ( Decree-Law 164/2014, of 4 November)

Teaching Methods

The evaluation will be conducted through:
- Participation in field classes (60%);
- Conducting a report on the site (s) in which it was conducting field classes (40%) - this report should be in accordance with the provisions of Archaeological Work Regulations (DR nº 164/2014, November 4)