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Documentos das provas de agregação de Vera Lúcia Dias Aldeias. Titulo da Lição: Geoarchaeology of human-made deposits
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Relatório apresentado no âmbito das provas de habilitação para o título de Agregado no ramo de conhecimento de Arqueologia pela Universidade do Algarve.The proposed course entitled “Geoarchaeology of Human-made Deposits” aims to integrate the academic formation of Universidade do Algarve (UAlg) in the Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). It is specifically tailored to the master’s program in Archaeology, that is, for students enrolled in the 2º cycle. The course is designed to offer a comprehensive examination of theoretical foundations, explore anticipations based on experimental and ethnographic research, examine instances of archaeological findings, and equip students with the skills required for investigating human-made deposits using a Geoarchaeological perspective. Anthropogenic deposits are defined as sediments whose formation processes (accumulation mechanisms and manufacture) directly derives from human agency. In this sense, anthropogenic deposits do not include sediments enriched by human actions through the simple incorporation of human inputs, or those depleted due to human actions. It does englobe, however, natural sediments used as raw materials (e.g., adobe, daub) as well as sediments or soils purposedly relocated by humans to, for instance, create mounds, turf structures, agriculture terraces, or other earth-based constructions. Notwithstanding, the alteration of soils due to human agency, as is the case of dark earths and anthrasols, will also be incorporate into this course since the formation and characteristics of these soils have been irrevocably shaped and altered by human action. Each of the course’s class focuses on illustrating distinct types of deposits through case-studies coupled with an integration of the archaeological debates and contexts for each of the study topics. An array of archaeological science tools is nowadays used to tease out information on human activities and behaviors from archaeological sediments and soils. Therefore, the course incorporates and aims to capacitate students to assimilate and critically assess the use of interdisciplinary methodologies, namely those associated with microarchaeological studies – specifically, soil micromorphology, infrared spectroscopy, and micro- X-ray fluorescence analysis. A complementary explanation of basic geological and chemical concepts is essential in the study or archaeological sediments and soils. Given that the proposed course is incorporated in the faculty of social sciences (FCHS), brief introductory aspects of archaeological sciences will be provided to students. The practical components of the course will further deepen student’s technical skills and methodological tools by having hands on sessions where the students will directly analyze archaeological thin sections under the microscope, produce elemental maps of archaeological thin sections, and obtain infrared spectra data from loose sediment samples.
The topics addressed in the course are not linked to a particular time period, nor do they pertain to a geographically defined area. Instead, lectures are designed to provide a breath of chronological and geographic frameworks, delivering an array of case-studies that span from hunter-gather Pleistocene contexts to the construction of infrastructures in later urban settings. The goal is for this course to appeal and engage students that are starting their own research, independently if their research interest lies in pre-history, protohistory, medieval or modern time periods. It will equally encompass a variety of geographical and environmental settings, with examples that will be relevant for students interested in cave settings, open air sites, but also constructed households or buildings in urban settings.
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