The Regional Secretariat for Education and Culture, through the Mobile and Intangible and Archaeological Heritage Department of the Regional Directorate for Culture, promotes the third and last conference of the "Archaeology: Old Challenges, New Perspectives" at Silveira e Paulo Palace in Angra do Heroísmo next Monday, December 4.
 
This conference starts at 6:30 PM. It will be attended by archaeologist Maria da Conceição Lopes, who will address the theme "Landscape Archaeology or the Materialisation of the Invisible."
 
The landscape archaeology is a subject that aims to study humanised landscapes, that is, to interpret and document the interactions, changes, adaptations and constraints of the populations that lived in a certain space and in a certain historical period.
 
This component of archaeological studies emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s with archaeologists such as Ian Hodder, Daniel Miller, Christopher Tilley and Peter Ucko.
 
Currently, the University of Minho offers a PhD in Archaeology of Landscape and Settlement.
 
Maria da Conceição Lopes holds a PhD from the University of Coimbra, where she teaches as assistant professor. She also holds the position of Scientific Coordinators of the Centre for Archaeological Studies of the Universities of Coimbra and Porto as well as, in addition to being President of the ÁRKESIS Association.
 
The Regional Directorate for Culture informs that this and other events may be consulted in the Cultural Agenda of CulturAçores Portal at the following address: www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt.