VarianteFerroviáriaLitorâneaSul-VFLS-EIA-Arqueologia-2007.pdf

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The Lafões territory was subjected to an intense human occupation since Protohistoric times, focused on the exploitatian of its mineral wealth. In the Early Middle Ages it was a kea-area where written and archaeological evidence shows its importance for local Christian populations and to recently-established Galician-Asturian lords. After almost a century of Christian rule, the Lafões region was temporarily back in Muslim hands, only to be finally regained when Viseu and Coimbra were reconquered (in 1058 and 1064, respectively). At that time, the fort that has now been revealed archaeologically on Monte da Senhora do Castelo (Mount of Our Lady of the Castle) in Vouzela would have already a relevant strategic functions

, a Arqueologia se caracteriza como uma ciência que se debruça sobre o estudo da materialidade elaborada pelas sociedades humanas como um dos aspectos de sua cultura -em sentido amplo -sem limitar-se ao caráter cronológico. A Arqueologia, portanto, é uma das disciplinas científicas que estudam as relações entre cultura material e sociedades estabelecidas na longa duração.