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Minister Elvira Fortunato visits FCP (16/12/2023) December 06, 2022

Under the protocol signed between FCT and the Côa Parque Foundation (FCP) in April 2021, which aims to award 30 doctoral scholarships for a period of 3 years, an invitation was sent to Minister Elvira Fortunato to visit the Foz Côa Foundation and make known the R&D activities carried out here, including the approved FCT I&D projects.

Fariseu’s archaeological excavations continue… July 18, 2022

After few months spent elaborating the first archaeological, sedimentological and chronological data obtained during previous fieldworks and laboratory analyses, archaeological excavations return at the Fariseu site (Rocha 9) by the archaeologists of the Côa Foundation.

Call for a Research Grant N. 4 (M.Sc. student) – Fundação Côa Parque March 31, 2022

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FCP

Deadline for formalizing the application:

from 29-03-2022 to 25-04-2022

Call for a Research Grant N. 3 (post-doctoral) – University of Coimbra February 09, 2022

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Deadline for formalizing the application:

from 09-02-2022 to 22-02-2022

Sampling campaign for dating sediments and rocky-surfaces by cosmogenic nuclides February 08, 2022

During two days more than thirty samples of Plio-Quaternary silicilastic sediments were taken, with the essential collaboration of Régis BRAUCHER (Co-director of LN2C national laboratory – Lab + ASTER AMS – https://www.cerege.fr/fr/equipements/laboratoire-national-des-nucleides-cosmogeniques). These samples will be analyzed in the CNRS CEREGE LN2C laboratories (Aix en Provence Cedex 04, France).

GIS-based predictive models in fluvial Palaeolithic archaeology December 14, 2021

With the support of the PALEORESCUE and CLIMATE@COA projects, the defense of a master’s thesis in geographic information technologies took place at the University of Coimbra. The main objective of this dissertation was to carry out a set of cartographic results, with the support of GIS, related to the choice of the most appropriate analytical and methodological processes for the identification of areas with greater or lesser potential to the preservation of the Palaeolithic record in a fluvial geological/geomorphological context – Lower Valley of the River Lis – of the Leiria region (Central Portugal).