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Your findings.

Up to six proposals of Cabeceiras, in your own order, to do it at home, in company or on a break.

2 de 6 propostas escolhidas · faça-as ao seu ritmo.

PROPOSTA 1 DE 2 · Travel through time

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Arco de Baúlhe · archaeological interpretation

Before the railway, a hillfort

During Romanisation, the region’s settlements did not all follow the same path. The Archaeological Map suggests that the small hillfort at Arco de Baúlhe may have lost inhabitants while Chacim became more central. It also mentions the expansion of agricultural occupation onto lower land. This interpretation helps us imagine a changing territory, but gives no certain date for the abandonment of Arco’s hillfort. The Map places these changes within a process beginning in the second half of the 1st century BC. Transformation extended beyond houses: relationships among settlements, fields and centres of power changed too. Chacim appears as a focus for population and renewed spaces, while Arco is presented as a possible example of depopulation. Material from Mó de Cima, in Chacim, is used to support the agricultural occupation of lower land. Later, the text highlights open farmstead-type settlements such as Abadim. Read together, these clues show a change in territorial organisation; they do not allow a single movement of inhabitants between two points to be traced, or every change to be dated to the same year.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. Draw two villages and fields among them.
  2. Use arrow keys to represent the hypothesis of population change; do not draw a historical route as if it were proven.
  3. Compare the history of the Arch with that of the agricultural couple of Abadim.

A paper proposal to explore history at your own pace.

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Sources of this proposal

My findings

An idea, a drawing or a question to go on.

PROPOSTA 2 DE 2 · Read the landscape through the plants

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Common names used in the source

Strawberry tree, carqueja and gorse

Strawberry tree, carqueja, gorse and honeysuckle appear in the municipality’s description of mountain vegetation. The source also links upland scrub to grazing goats, cattle and sheep, distinguishing it from cultivated pasture lower down. Scrub is therefore part of a landscape of plants, animals and work. These common names are starting points for learning about vegetation, not identifications of every plant you encounter. The municipal account relates this vegetation to changing land use: it mentions the partial replacement of oaks, chestnuts and scrub by maritime pine. Reading the landscape therefore also means asking what was planted and what changed. One green patch may hold stories of grazing, cultivation and forestry. Start by choosing a detail in the next stories: a carqueja stem, gorse spines, the strawberry tree’s flowers and fruits, or honeysuckle’s place at the woodland edge. Each question brings you closer without requiring you to identify every plant already.

Vamos experimentar?

  1. In a landscape design, use different symbols for trees, shrubs and fields.
  2. Compare the spots: where you find continuity and where there are intervals? You can do the exercise from a photograph.
  3. Choose one of the plans of this story and open the related reading to discover a detail.

An activity to try at your own pace, without collecting specimens.

Open a história e os seus recursos →
Sources of this proposal

My findings

An idea, a drawing or a question to go on.

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