Time travelTry drawing
The stone also kept drawings
Marmoirals gather ancient tombs and engravings.
Abadim · prehistory
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- Read the story and identify three clues used in the interpretation: ceramics, engravings and comparison with other sets.
- Make a free drawing on paper inspired by the idea of a message on the stone, without presenting it as reproduction of a local engraving.
- Save the questions about meaning and date: the form of a drawing does not solve everything.
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Crafts and memoriesTry drawing
Before the punch, a piece of alder
The wood was also chosen.
Outeiro · clog materials and tools
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- Draws five cards with verbs crack, blur, prepare the edge, pull the leather and open holes.
- Add to each card the name of the tool you find in history.
- Add a card with the final product: a punch. It is a paper comparison, not an activity with tools.
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Before the rails, a castro
The Arc also has a much older story.
Arco de Baúlhe · archaeological interpretation
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- Draw two villages and fields among them.
- Use arrow keys to represent the hypothesis of population change; do not draw a historical route as if it were proven.
- Compare the history of the Arch with that of the agricultural couple of Abadim.
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Gold and red in church
The document also kept the colors.
Bucos · assets described in 1758
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- Make a paper scheme with the center and both sides of the main altar described.
- Add the colors mentioned in the document, without displaying the drawing as reproduction of the current interior.
- Compare the historical description with the church record and identify what each source lets you know.
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The flavours of CabeceirasTry drawing
The oven gave a signal.
The batch was also done with attention to what was seen.
Pedraça · testimony collected in March 2011
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- Draw three cards: dough at rest, heated oven and round broa.
- Associate with each card the sign or gesture mentioned in the story.
- Compare it with a memory of your family's bread, writing down who told it and when.
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The bread kept the next batch
A small portion of mass attached one batch to the next.
Oral memory · March 2011
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- Draw two batches and connect them with an arrow representing the portion of stored mass.
- Add a second line with the change to bakery yeast described in the collection.
- Record the date of the testimony: it is not a description of all kitchens today.
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A house organized the party
Underneath it was cooked; above it all waited for the table.
Gondiães · organisation of the feast in 2012
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- Draw two rectangles, one per floor, and distribute the elements described.
- Set an arrow from preparation to serving food.
- Imagine that tasks would require carrying objects between the two floors.
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Time travelTry drawing
A stick measures sharing
At the Feast of Popes, serving is also a ritual.
Testimony of 2012 · Gondiães
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- On a sheet, represent a table and mark equal intervals with a strip of paper.
- Place in each interval three symbols for the foods mentioned.
- Compare distributing sets across the table with sharing a set among people.
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Crafts and memoriesTry drawing the route
The water also had a built path
A levada isn't always a stone-cut channel.
Cabeceiras de Basto · hydraulic heritage documented in 2011
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- Draws three elements on a sheet: a weir or puddle, a levada and a mill.
- Connect them with arrows and write with each one: store, drive or use the water to move the mill.
- Read the story of the water shifts. Add to the drawing a question about who decided when each person could use the water.
A scheme to understand reading, without having to go into a mill or go through a levada.
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Life you do not always seeTry listening and looking
Similar names, different relatives
A swallow is not a small swift.
Painzela · local record and general biology
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- Choose an accessible place where you can stay still for a few minutes. Listen before looking for a bird.
- Note whether you heard sounds, saw a bird perched or flying, or saw no birds. Describe only what you could make out.
- Keep the date and place with your notes. If you do not know the species, leave that part open.
You do not need to identify the species to make these notes. Observe from a distance without approaching nests.
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Time travelTry to interpret
A castle you read on the ground
In Eiró, the circular shape and moat tell a story.
Rio Douro · archaeological interpretation
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- Read the description and draw only the elements it mentions: circular shape, landfill and moat.
- Tick with another color something I would like to know, but the text does not clarify.
- Compare your drawing with the reading of Monte do Castelo. What clues come from the terrain and what interpretations?
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Time travelTry to investigate.
Three questions to the past: land, mountains and river
The Parish Memories were born from an inquiry.
Cabeceiras de Basto · reading of the Parish Memories
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- Choose one of the following stories and point out the place, time and source indicated.
- Write a fact that the document supports and a question to which you cannot answer with that text.
- Compared to another story: a date can refer to a document, a construction or an interpretation. It identifies what the case is.
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