In 2018 we began the archaeological study of Extremo fortified landscape, identifying a defensive complex similar to the one preserved to the north, on the Galician-Portuguese border, the result of the construction process that accompanied the Restoration War. These structures had a great impact on earlier landscapes, and were subsequently transformed by new processes, such as the construction of cultivation terraces.

Extremo is a privileged place to develop a research focused on the paradigm Science, Technology and Society, oriented by the following research hypothesis: this cultural landscape in the historical period responds to two overlapping construction processes in the Modern Age that correspond to very different macro-structural logics (the War of Restoration in the 17th century and the construction of an agro-pastoral landscape that intensified in the 18th century).

Project Link: P.E. From land to Earth – IN2PAST