- Paleoenvironmental  analysis -

Within the time period covered by this project this task aims to do a palaeoenvironmental approach to the region under study. In this sense, this research will be developed with the information already available from the urban excavations carried out in Braga and with the physical and biological paleoenvironmental data that it is expected to be recovered in the context of the studies carried out in the surrounding town area.

Under the first line of research special attention will be given to an attempt to rebuild the evolution of paleotopographic landforms where the city was implanted as well as its immediate surroundings. The second line of research under this task will focus on the identification, recording and analyzing of the morpho-pedo-sedimentary indicators and as well as the biological ones, especially the paleobotanical which may provide a first approximation to the landscape reconstruction of the area surrounding the Roman town of Bracara Augusta.

Because the landscape study requires a permanent change in its scales of analysis (in this case, from regional scale to micro-regional and local ones) as well as the use of each one individually or in combination it seems to us methodologically relevant to underline this aspect, given its importance as an irreplaceable research tool, where the both the versatility and the outlook of the overall standing will be key strategies in the scope of this research.