The Vale Boi Paleolithic Archaeological Site will have an Open Day on the 25th of July, between 10:00 am and 16:00 pm. Visitors will be able to see the archaeological excavation work, observe and handle artefacts over 30 years old and clarify any doubts with archaeologists and students who are working in Vale Boi.
The initiative is promoted by the Interdisciplinary Center for Archeology and Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB) of the University of Algarve, in collaboration with the Municipality of Vila do Bispo.
The archaeological site, located near the EN125, between Lagos and Vila do Bispo, was discovered in 1998 as a result of prospecting work in the river valleys of the Costa Vicentina.
Located to the east of the Ribeira de Vale Boi (Vila do Bispo municipality), in front of the small town with the same name, the Paleolithic deposit is located about two kilometers from the current coastline.
The archaeological remains show a dispersion of more than 10 thousand square meters, occupying the entire slope, which is limited to the east by a limestone outcrop 10 meters high and to the west by the Ribeira alluvium.
"The archaeological work began in 2000 and has been guided by intervention in three distinct areas of the deposit, which revealed a long chronological sequence, starting more than 30 thousand years ago with the oldest elements of our species in Portugal", explains UAlg in a note sent to the newsrooms.
In addition to hunting artefacts and daily activities, according to the University of Algarve, «thousands of bones of hunted animals were also exhumed, including deer, aurochs, horse, wild boar and rabbit, which served to feed these hunter-gatherers, as well as lion, wolf, fox and lynx, probably hunted for their furs. Seafood was also part of the daily life of these first human communities in the Algarve».
In the archaeological site of Vale Boi, there are still elements of mobile art, characteristic of the Paleolithic period in the Iberian Peninsula.
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