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The architectural information and the recovered materials resulted in a greater knowledge of the dynamics of occupation of the area throughout history, showing that peoples passed through there from the Chalcolithic to Roman times (the most represented) and medieval times. , both Christian and Islamic. .
The works allowed “to build a biography and talk about the people who lived here, in a slightly more profound and complex way,” explained Ana Catarina Basílio.
Deepening this aspect of history will be one of the objectives of next year’s archaeological campaign, when archaeologists intend to study “a funerary structure”, already identified, which may result in the discovery of bones that allow “some radiometric dating”.
For now, this year’s campaign continues to be the observation that the terrain trodden in the Serra da Ota, throughout the campaign, ”is possibly the same as [pisaram] the populations that would previously inhabit here ”, since“ stratigraphic power ”, that is, relative to the layers of earth that cover the findings studied,“ is very low ”.
The archaeological site of Ota was discovered in 1932 and the current campaigns are part of a project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, coordinated by Ana Catarina Basílio and André Texugo Lopes, researcher at the Center for Geographical Studies and the Center for Archeology . from the University of Lisbon.
This year, the field work had the participation of volunteers from six national and international universities, among which are, in addition to the academies of Lisbon and Algarve, the University of Coimbra, the University of Porto, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the University of Jaén, the last two in Spain.
The Ota Archaeological Project is financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology and has the support of the Alenquer City Council (Lisbon district), the Ota City Council and the Association of Baldios de Ota.
