Expert Commission to submit report on archaeological findings on Terceira to the Regional Government
The Expert Commission established by the Government of the Azores to study the archaeological findings located on Terceira Island should draft, by the end of the week, a report that will enable the Government to take decisions on this matter.
The Regional Director for Culture, Nuno Lopes, stated that the commission began its work today in Angra do Heroísmo in accordance with "the work methodology it will freely establish." According to him, the commission "may, if it wishes, hear the interested parties on these matters."
Nuno Lopes stressed that the Government hopes that this commission, whose members are recognised for their expertise nationally and internationally, may be able to the define the guidelines to be implemented in the different locations and objects considered to have archaeological value by some researchers in recent years.
The Regional Directorate for Culture will provide logistical support to all works deemed as necessary by experts. This department is also waiting that the commission selects the experts who will visit the island of Corvo with the same purpose.
Nuno Lopes hosted today a press conference, where he was accompanied by some members of this commission. During the event, the government official specified that the research works will be carried out on three sites on the island of Terceira: Espigão, Monte Brasil and Quatro Ribeiras.
The recently created team of experts on the fields on Archaeology, History and Geology has the following composition: Cláudio Torres, head of Mértola Archaeological Field; Isabel Albergaria, Avelino Meneses, José Damião, João Luís Gaspar, Gabriela Queirós, Ana Isabel Gomes and Angus Duncan, University of the Azores; Raquel Vilaça, University of Coimbra; Ana Margarida Arruda and Ana Catarina Sousa, University of Lisbon; Rui Parreira, Regional Directorate for Culture of Algarve and Francisco Maduro Dias, Terceira Historical Institute.