17 to 26 August 2018
DETAILED PROGRAMME AND SCHEDULE
Professors / lecturers / tutors (click on photos for CVs)
Friday 17 AUGUST
Afternoon: Arrival (and Wellcome) of the participants at Ferreira do Zêzere (FZ); Pick up course documentation; Check In (accommodation)
19.30 - Dinner (at CRIFZ)
Saturday 18 (at the Avecasta cave - local transports (from town to cave and vice-versa) assumed by the FZ municipality)
I - Ancient territories, eco-physiographies and raw-material provenances
| 1 |   |
10.00 | José Mateus; Paula Queiroz | Guided visit to the archaeological site |
| 2 |  |
11.00 | Adriano Germano | Geology and Geomorphology of the Avecasta Karstic Landscape |
| 3 | |
12.00 | José Mateus; Paula Queiroz | Ancient Territories under a Systems Ecology Approach (Regional Palaeoecology With Humans) |
| LUNCH BREAK | 13.00 | |||
| 4 |  |
14.30 | Patrícia Jordão | Lithic provenance analysis: raw-materials; methods; questions; case studies |
| 5 |    |
15.30 | João Caninas; Carlos Neto de Carvalho; Pedro Baptista | Tracking the provenance of the building materials from Cabeço da Anta megalithic tomb (Proença-a-Nova, Central Portugal): a Least-Cost Analysis based approach. |
| BREAK | 16.30 | |||
| 17.00 | Introduction to the excavation |
Sunday 19 - Free day (touring around the region) - Coventry of Christ (Tomar); Lago Azul and Dornes (Ferreira do Zêzere)
Monday 20
II - From Archaeology digging to registration, virtual simulation and videogames
| 10.00 | Excavation modules | |||
| LUNCH BREAK | 13.00 | |||
| 6 | |
14.30 | José Mateus | A new scenic paradigm for Archaeology |
| 7 | |
15.00 | José Mateus | The challenges of the occupation-surface digging and decoding dwelling and artisanal gestures and activities (the micro-archaeology approach) |
| 8 |   |
15.30 | António Ventura; Gonçalo de Figueiredo | Archaeology and photography |
| BREAK | 16.30 | |||
| 9 | |
17.00 | José Mateus; Paula Queiroz | From photogrammetry to interactive virtual Scenography - The virtualization pipeline (3D, simulation, full interactive scenics (videogames)) |
Tuesday 21
| 10.00 | Excavation modules | |||
| LUNCH BREAK | 13.00 | |||
| 10 | |
14.30 | José Mateus; Paula Queiroz | The paradigms of 3D modelling of surfaces, structures and artefacts (point clouds, parametric meshes, edited meshes, organic clay-like sculpturing and retopologizing, flux). |
| 11 | |
15.00 | José Mateus; Paula Queiroz | An introduction to the UNREAL engine and its use for Scenic Archaeology |
| BREAK | 16.30 | |||
| 12 | |
17.00 | José Mateus; Paula Queiroz | Photogrammetry; 3D modelling of an occupation-surface; interactive virtualization (practical session)
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Wednesday, 22
III - Ancient Territories, ancien vegetation and ruralities
| 10.00 | Excavation modules (Photogrammetry Practices) | |||
| LUNCH BREAK | 13.00 | |||
| 13 | |
14.30 | José Mateus; Paula Queiroz | The present-day flora, vegetation and habitats of the Avecasta Region in the context of Holocene Landscape Evolution |
| 14 | |
15.30 | José Mateus | The cave-settlement as a landscape (fossilization) sink for ancient soils, natural (phyto & zoo) thanatocoenosis, and plant aura reflections. |
| 15 | |
16.00 | Paula Queiroz | The challenges of Palynology of a cave-settlement - Exploring a diversified palette of palaeo-territorial information sources |
| BREAK | 16.30 | |||
| 16 |  |
17.00 | Ginevra Coradeschi | Multidisciplinary approach to study archaeological wood and charcoal - Two different case studies
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Thursday, 23
IV - Fire technologies and performances of metal work and pottery
| 10.00 | Excavation / Micro (collecting, summary diagnose and sorting of micro-fossil assemblages) | |||
| LUNCH BREAK | 13.00 | |||
| 17 |  |
14.30 | Massimo Beltrame | Archaeometric investigation of ancient ceramics - Analytical methods; clay sources; archaeo-technologies and uses; a case-study |
| 18 | |
15.30 | José Mateus | The Avecasta - the archaeo-metallurgic sub-programme (furnace pits, casting moulds, bone tools, slags, artefacts) |
| BREAK | 16.00 | |||
| 19 |  |
16.30 | Jorge Carvalho | Reenactment staging designs for ancient metallurgy
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Friday, 24
V - Archaeology and Biological Anthropology challenges on cave necropolis
| 10.00 | Excavation modules | |||
| LUNCH BREAK | 13-00 | |||
| 20 |  |
14.30 | Claudia Relvado | Biological anthropology and human pathology - Overviews and perspectives |
| 21 |  |
15.30 | Ana Rosa Cruz | Archaeology of the Karstic Necropolis of the Nabão River Basin |
| BREAK | 16.30 | |||
| 22 |  |
17.00 | Pedro Mendes | Hypogea, artificial caves, semi-natural, and natural caves - Rock enclosures for Life and Death.
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Sábado, 25
VI - The challenges of a Scenic Site Museography
| 10.00 | Excavation modules | |||
| 13.00 | ||||
| 23 | |
14.30 | José Mateus; Paula Queiroz | Scenic Archaeology with Performative Humans: The forgotten challenge of the archaeological performance stage (designing a Western European Bronze-Age aedo / bard) - Videogames for Archaeology (a case study) |
| 24 |  |
15.30 | Domingos Morais | Oral traditions and Ethno-Performances - Between truth and false, when the body try to learn archaeological knowledge |
| BREAK | 16.30 | |||
| 25 | |
17.00 | Jorge Carvalho | Monuments and ancient performance recreation - Methods, knowledge and case studies |
| 26 |  |
17.30 | Carlos Carvalheiro | Reviving Drama in Ancient Sites |
Sunday - AVECASTA OPEN DAY
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