- Evaluation and selection of rural research areas - 

The actions to be developed in the context of Task 3 shall create the conditions required for a judicious evaluating and selection of the rural areas to be deeply investigated by a multidisciplinary review.

 Under this task shall be assessed the informative potential of the region around the city of Braga, with an emphasis on the density of archaeological sites, on the higher or lesser potential of the areas to carry out paleoenvironmental observations and analysis, on the concentration of sites with place names connected with possessors and on the areas with the oldest and richest historical records.

The evaluation of the informative potential of historical sources shall also weigh in the selection of the areas to be deeply studied. For the effect one should examine the kind of information contained in them concerning the property organization, their markers, the detailed limits descriptions or the type of cultures. This evaluation requires that in the framework of Task 3 field characterization tests took place, concerning the mapping of historic data, mainly the one related with the limits of properties.