The Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP, Azambuja – Portugal) site is one of the biggest Chalcolithic hilltop settlements of Iberia Peninsula. For the first time, an analytical approach for the study of remarkable schist artefacts found in VNSP will be applied. Using micro and non-destructive methods, the chemical characterization of schist artefacts will be performed. This chemical characterization will be used in provenance studies of this exogenous material. In addition, the interdisciplinary discussion of mobility of people/objects/ideas and interaction network in which site was involved at regional and extra-regional levels, during the chalcolithic period will be performed.
Coordinator: Ana Luísa Rodrigues – alsr@ctn.tecnico.ulisboa.pt