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SAND – Sarilhos Grandes Entre dois Mundos: o adro da Igreja e a Paleobiologia dos ossos humanos recuperados
Authors: Pereira Paula Alves , Jesus Roger Lee , Magalhães Bruno M.
Published: November 2020

The archaeological excavation carried out in 2008 at the Largo da Igreja of Sarilhos Grandes triggered an interdisciplinary research project aiming to study its population since the medieval period. This work aims to discuss the paleobiological analysis of the human osteological remains excavated in 2008. A minimum number of 24 individuals were estimated out of 21 poorly preserved skeletons, five ossuaries and other disarticulated bones. Several pathologies were identified (e.g., caries, calculus, osteomas, Schmorl nodules, osteoarthrosis) with special focus on lesions possibly associated with nutritional stress in younger individuals. A new archaeological excavation is programmed aiming to better understand several issues and open new perspectives about the population of Sarilhos Grandes
Um exemplo de Arqueologia Urbana em Alcoutim: o Antigo Edifício dos CTT
Authors: Fernandes Marco , Dias Marta , Gradim Alexandra , Lopes Virgílio , Martinez Susana Gómez
Published: November 2020

The aim of the present article is to divulge the main results of the archaeological works developed by the Campo Arqueológico de Mértola team in a building known as the Antigos CTT, between August 2019 and February 2020. This property is located to the west of Alcoutim Castle and inside its 17th century walls, being an important archaeological site to understand the occupational dynamic of this urban area. This intervention was performed in two distinct phases: diagnostic survey and archaeological monitoring / excavation. These interventions led to the identification of an associated group of structures and layers that point to a diachrony beginning in the 15th century
Palácio dos Ferrazes (Rua das Flores/Rua da Vitória, Porto): a cocheira de Domingos Oliveira Maia
Authors: Raimundo Francisco
Published: November 2020

Within the scope of the rehabilitation of the Ferrazes Palace into a hotel unit, whose implementation encompassed two buildings, one facing Rua das Flores (Palácio) and the other facing Rua da Vitória, as well as the existing space between them, we present a short description about the occupation of the second building. This characterization is elaborated based on the archaeological monitoring of the dismantling / demolition of the existing building, combined with the data collected during the archaeological excavation and complemented with some documentary sources that made it possible to reconstruct the old stable dated from the XIX century, ordered to be built by Domingos Oliveira Maia, as well as previous occupations dating from the 17th / 18th centuries
O convento de Nossa Senhora da Esperança de Ponta Delgada: o contributo da arqueologia para o conhecimento de um monumento identitário
Authors: Araújo João Gonçalves , Oliveira N’Zinga
Published: November 2020

The Nossa Senhora da Esperança convent located in Ponta Delgada city is one of the main cultural heritage sites of the Azores islands. An archaeological evaluation was carried between 2015 and 2016 as part of a project of restoration and rehabilitation. The results achieved allowed to disclose an occupation range between the 16th and 19th centuries, particularly intense from the second half of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries, when the cult of Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres began. The convent of Nossa Senhora da Esperança was one of the few that survived on the island, after the decree of extinction of the religious orders, maintaining its original function until today
Arqueologia na ilha do Corvo… em busca da capela de Nossa Senhora do Rosário
Authors: Casimiro Tânia Manuel , Neto José Luís , Borges Luís , Parreira Pedro
Published: November 2020

From 2014 to 2018, four archaeological expeditions took place in Corvo island, on the Azorean archipelago, seeking to encourage stronger relationships between its local historical and archaeological heritage, and the local community. The main goal of these campaigns was to locate the remains of the Nossa Senhora do Rosário chapel, the first religious temple of the island built on the late sixteenth century. The excavations did not permit the identification of the chapel, however provided new contributions towards the study of the everyday life of that small island, located on the periphery of the European world, though connected to the great transatlantic routes of the Modern Age. The material culture provided new evidence regarding the human occupation of that territory, between the 16th and the 20th century, concerning domestic activities, food consumption and economic realities
Arqueologia marítima em Cabo Verde: enquadramento e primeiros resultados do projecto CONCHA
Authors: Bettencourt José , Dias Adilson , Lima Carlos , Chouzenoux Christelle , Fonseca Cristovão , Pereira Dúnia , Lopes Gonçalo , Coelho Inês , Monteiro Jaylson , Lima José , Alves Maria Eugénia , Carvalho Patrícia , Silva Tiago
Published: November 2020

Among the partners of the UNESCO Chair The Ocean’s Cultural Heritage are CHAM and IPC (Cape Verde) which defined as essential action the underwater archaeological site inventory of that archipelago. This action started in 2018 as part of the European project CONCHA, that aims to address the different ways that port cities developed around the Atlantic during the early modern era. CONCHA’s surveys were conducted on the island of Santiago, in Ribeira Grande anchorage, in São Francisco (17th century) and in Urânia shipwrecks (1809). The project included the underwater survey, a review of the documentation and of the archaeological materials, recovered from the sites, at the Museum of Archaeology in Praia. Dissemination and training activities were also carried out. This paper systematizes the results of these work
Património Arqueológico e Gestão Territorial: O contributo da Arqueologia para a revisão do PDM de Avis
Authors: Ribeiro Ana Cristina
Published: November 2020

The current diagnosis of Archaeology in the municipality of Avis reflects a deep and systematic knowledge of the territory, its particularities and the diversity of expressions that translate the human occupation in this region, advocating the urgent need to revise the Municipal Master Plan. A summary of the contribution of the Avis Archaeology Centre to the study and safeguarding of archaeological heritage is presented, addressing the strategic options and procedures considered fundamental for a municipal intervention in the face of the new challenges in the management of these heritage values and their affirmation in local dynamics, which includes insertion in the politics and instruments of management and planning of the territory and in local development strategies
A coleção arqueológica do extinto Museu Municipal do Porto – Origens, Percursos e Estudos
Authors: Couto Sónia
Published: November 2020

The article presented here aims to make known the archaeological collection of the extinct Municipal Museum of Porto, contextualizing it in the history of this museum and how it was constituted, highlighting the important role of Rocha Peixoto in this process. The route of this collection was complex and characterized by successive transitions between museums and other non-museological spaces, facing adverse conditions regarding to its conservation, study and inventory, until reaching its legal deposit, which is the Museu Nacional Soares dos Kings. After the majority of the archaeological collection left this museum, its dispersion continued, it is unknown where several objects are deposited until today
Arqueologia Urbana: a cidade de Lagos como caso de Estudo
Authors: Neto Cátia
Published: November 2020

Due to the rapid pace of urban development in many cities, urban archaeology tends to project itself, contributing to a new regulatory framework that requires this type of work in the historic centers, being necessary to adapt and develop methods to work in urban environments. One of the main problems, if not the main one, associated with urban archaeology is precisely the question of the rescue/preventive archaeology performed by archaeology companies being seen by many of the specialists as an impediment to the production of knowledge about the city and its history, so one will try to understand why Preventive Archaeology is seen as an impediment to the production of knowledge
Estratégias de promoção do património cultural subaquático nos Açores. O caso da ilha do Faial
Authors: Neto José Luís , Bettencourt José , Borges Luís , Parreira Pedro
Published: November 2020

Considering the Azores archipelago was one of the pioneer stages of underwater archaeology, on the Portuguese reality, the island of Faial was one of the more intervened, over the last two decades. These archaeological works have produced new contributes towards studying ships from the Early Modern Age, that crossed the Atlantic. Recently, joint efforts between governmental authorities and academic institutions have created new strategies for the promotion of said underwater cultural heritage, allowing for its inclusion on international networks, which have reinforced its protection and activated its potential, being a socioeconomically valid resource for the Region. Presently, we present these developments and its contributes towards the management and studying of the cultural underwater heritage in Portuga
Carta Arqueológica da Cidade Velha: Uma primeira abordagem
Authors: Monteiro Jaylson , Tavares Nireide , Veiga Sara da , Ramos Claudino , Brito Edson , Carvalho Carlos , Moreira Francisco , Tavares Adalberto
Published: November 2020

The knowledge of cultural heritage in a specific region is a basic element for the development of actions and skills necessary to save and manage. The historic set of Cidade Velha, classified as a World Heritage Site, still preserves traces that allow its conservation. In this sense, a first approach to the Archaeological Map of Cidade Velha is presented, with the identification and inventory of all vestiges, within the protected area of the site, which encompasses the Ribeira Grande valley and the historic center, and represents mainly as primordial populated areas, and urban expansion in the 16th and 17th centuries. The vestiges identified are authentic testimonies of cultural diversity that characterize a historic trajectory of the Cidade Velha
Como os projetos de Arqueologia podem contribuir para uma comunidade culturalmente mais consciente
Authors: Figueiredo Alexandra , Monteiro Cláudio , Silveira Adolfo , Lopes Ricardo
Published: November 2020

The project Caldas da Rainha Archaeological Chart is a multiannual project, approved by the DGPC. In ad‑ dition to the work of collecting, analyzing, surveying and discovering archaeological sites it’s our aims to contribute to a better heritage education, thus corresponding to the very important aspect of civic cultural awareness. The guidelines include components that are linked to the ways of transfer cultural knowledge, by carrying out various activities with the local community, to sensitize the population to the preservation of the archaeological heritage. We intend in this article to present the actions developed and some conclusions observed, as well as to demon‑ strate the need for these activities to increase a more enlightened and sensitive society to safeguard the traces of past human occupations
Educação Patrimonial – Um cidadão esclarecido é um cidadão ativo!
Authors: Almeida Ana Paula
Published: November 2020

Heritage is a testimony that keeps our Memory alive, contributing to the reinforcement our Identity. The promoting program of the Cultural Heritage Service of Esposende Municipality integrates a set of activities resulting from multiple archaeological research programs carried out by the Service and its partners (universities and research centers). Designed for different publics, they encourage physical and emotional approximation to Heritage, namely through activities designed for the educational community and the general public. Educating and sensitizing, in a pedagogical and fun way, to areas such as Archeology, History, Heritage, Inclusion or Citizenship are some assumptions of the two projects of this communication: “I am Heritage!” and PASO – (Projeto de Arqueologia Sem Obstáculos – Archeology Project Without Obstacles)
Arqueologia 3.0 – Pensar e comunicar a Arqueologia para um futuro sustentável
Authors: Rolo Mónica
Published: November 2020

The project of scientific dissemination Arqueologia 3.0 is the outcome of a partnership established between Museu-Biblioteca da Casa de Bragança – Fundação da Casa de Bragança and Évora’s University (Portugal). From 2017 until 2019, three annual editions of the International Workshop Arqueologia 3.0 have taken place, with one common objective – to debate the issue of study, communication and enhancement of archaeological heritage, in articulation with the new perspectives over archaeological praxis and its social impact. In the present paper, one intends to look back over the main goals and results of this project and to lay the foundations for the future of Arqueologia 3.0
O museu universitário como mediador entre a ciência e a sociedade: o exemplo da secção de arqueologia no Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto (MHNC-UP)
Authors: Gaspar Rita
Published: November 2020

University museums have an increased responsibility, as mediators between the production of scientific knowledge and its transfer to different audiences. Although they were initially more focused on supporting teaching activities, currently they have the broader mission of transferring knowledge produced in university to the community where they operate. Will be presented some examples of approaches developed in the Archaeology and Ethnography section of the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto throughout the institution’s history
Museu de Lanifícios: Real Fábrica de Panos. Atividades no âmbito da Arqueologia
Authors: Barata Beatriz Correia , Salvado Rita
Published: November 2020

The Wool Museum, located in Covilhã, was founded in 1992 and has kept a close relationship with archaeology since then. The 18th Century Dye-House structures of the Royal Textile Factory were exposed in 1975 and with their discovery began an important project for conservation and safeguarding, which played an important role in Portuguese Industrial Archaeology. In view of its mission to publicize the textile industry and heritage, an extensive program with public activities has been developed over the years, such as workshops, lectures, and temporary exhibitions. However, these activities were mainly focused on wool manufacture and textile tradition. Considering the limited events related to archaeology, in 2019 began a project to introduce the archeological theme in the museum activities plan
Arqueologia Pública e o caso da localidade da Mata (Torres Novas)
Authors: Manso Cláudia , Ferreira Ana Rita , Ferreira Cristiana , Antunes Vanessa Cardoso
Published: November 2020

Formulations of ‘value’, ‘identity’ and ‘place’ are discussed, according to M. Díaz-Andreu (2017: 2-6) and P. G. Gould (2016: 1-18), as well as the terms in which a participatory and critical approach by the community on local cultural management is structured, grounded on the comparative selection of international heritage conventions
Do sítio arqueológico ao museu: um percurso (também) didático
Authors: Fernandes Lídia
Published: November 2020

Any archaeological site, by itself, allows to question the meaning of archaeology as a science that “produces” ruin. The historical knowledge inevitably leads to consequent action in relation to its structures, which musealized or left to abandon, are witnesses of historical memory. The approach currently perceived is distinct according to the archaeological object in question, its context or its intended role. In fact, recently, the musealization of archaeological sites has aroused ambivalent interests, as the ruins serve as a motto for iconic projects which, in many cases, go beyond the purpose for which they were created. Not everything deserves musealization, but all that is musealized requires a dignified framework for the object itself
Estão todos convidados para a Festa! E para dançar também… O projecto do Serviço Educativo do Museu Arqueológico do Carmo na 5ª Edição da Festa da Arqueologia
Authors: Santos Rita Pires dos
Published: November 2020

The Education Department of the Carmo Archaeological Museum, created in 2003, has the mission to ensure that people of all ages and abilities can enjoy, experience, and understand the history of the Museum and its collection. But how do we go about to make that happen? To get people to participate and get involved? What strategies can we use to ask someone to “dance” with us? What is the social and educational role of the museums? Taking this questions as our starting point our aim is to analyze the project developed by the Educational Department for the 5th edition of the event Festa da Arqueologia that took place in April 2019 with the theme Revolutions and Resistances – From the Origins to the Industrial Revolution
Didática Arqueológica, experiências do Projeto Mértola Vila Museu
Authors: Palma Maria de Fátima , Rodrigues Clara , Gómez Susana , Rafael Lígia
Published: November 2020

In 2018 the Mértola Vila Museu project, an unique experience of preservation and heritage diffusion, completed 40 years of existence. Based on study, research, conservation, safeguard and exposure, this project has been experienced in the most diverse ways with visible scientifical output and with an important connection with the local community, all this with the goal of educating and sensitizing for the preservation of historic and arqueological heritage. In this text we approach the arqueological didactic through the experience of Mértola, presenting the practices and approaches that have in heritage the structural element for the local development and community engagement. The premises of the project and of the experiences of the Campo Arqueológico of Mértola and the Museum of Mértola are clarified in direct contact with the school and local community, with the aim of creating identitary bonds and a sense of belonging
Os inventários de arte rupestre em Portugal
Authors: Abreu Mila Simões
Published: November 2020

This paper presents a history of the lists and inventories of rock art sites in Portuguese territory. It starts with the first references in the XVII century followed by notes published by scholars such as Francisco Martins Sarmento, José Leite de Vasconcelos and Francisco Manuel Alves. Inventories include the first ones by Rui Serpa Pinto and Joaquim Rodrigues Santos Júnior until the project “Gravado no Tempo”(Etched in time) – a total inventory of Portuguese rock art that started in 1991, and the creation of the “Corpus” of rock engravings and paintings in the first decade of the century XXI and some of its conclusions
Os motivos zoomórficos representados nas placas de tear de Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal)
Authors: Martins Andrea , Neves César , Arnaud José Morais , Diniz Mariana
Published: November 2020

From the excavations carried out between 1936 and 1967 in the Chalcolithic settlement of Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal), there were recovered more than 500 ceramic elements usually known as “loom weights” with different shapes, dimensions and, in the majority, with decorated surfaces. The iconographic repertoire is quite diverse, with the geometric motifs in higher representation, followed by soliforms, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs. For the zoomorphic motifs there were identified eleven decorated surfaces, whose typology is split into two categories: quadruped – whose species are not identifiable; deer representations. These iconographic motifs are part of the symbolic and conceptual universe of Iberian communities from the 3rd Millennium BC, also appearing in several artifactual categories such as ceramics, figurines, plates, engravings and rock art paintings. Understanding the mechanisms that create and increase this thematic uniformity, as well as the meaning of the deer for these agro pastoral groups, will allow a closer approach to the cultural and social behavior of these communities
Arte Rupestre do Monte de Góios (Lanhelas, Caminha). Síntese dos resultados dos trabalhos efectuados em 2007-2009
Authors: Gomes Mário Varela
Published: November 2020

Monte de Góios is a relief on the left bank of the Minho River estuary inner part. Our archaeological work on Monte de Góios, between 2007 and 2009, was framed by a project to minimize the impact, of a new highway (A28/IC1 – Ligação a Caminha), in the landscape and cultural heritage. After thorough archaeological pros‑ pecting of the field, eighteen rocks, containing rock art, were detected, of which five were already known of. The almost nine hundred engravings catalogued – schematic anthropomorphs, zoomorphs (horses, snakes, and others) and a significant set of geometric signs – present a large pre and proto-historic diachrony, support‑ ed by stratigraphic relations, degrees of erosion and morphologic and stylistic aspects. They form sanctuaries, with different dimensions and iconographic records, in a broad socio-religious space corresponding to Monte de Góios
Círculos segmentados gravados na Bacia do Rio Lima (Noroeste de Portugal): contributos para o seu estudo
Authors: Marinho Diogo , Bettencourt Ana M. S. , Sampaio Hugo Aluai
Published: November 2020

Rock art as a practice of past communities can be divided into Palaeolithic and post-Palaeolithic arts. Considering the later, which in turn can be divided into Atlantic and Schematic Arts, among other styles difficult to define (Bettencourt, 2017a, 2017b), this work will focus Atlantic rock art. Our selected object of study is the recorded segmented circles that, according to that author, will belong to a stylistic universe emerging in the Bronze Age. The geographic area is the Lima River basin. Although these motifs are rare, they appear both on the coast and inland, in association with different figurative grammars. By the macroscopic observation of its orientation they indicate a relation with celestial cults or celebrations during certain moments of the year
Paletas na Arte Rupestre do Noroeste de Portugal. Inventário preliminar
Authors: Afonso Bruna Sousa , Bettencourt Ana M. S. , Sampaio Hugo Aluai
Published: November 2020

Palettes are rare in the rock art of Northwest Portugal. They are found both in Classical Atlantic Art and openair Schematic Art contexts, but also in other contexts of difficult classifications. Although known, there is no inventory of sites with this motif or a typological table of them, despite some subdivision made by Bettencourt (2017a). The cultural and physical contexts, in which they are found, are also not known. The aim of this work is to rectify these absences through a first inventory, the creation of a typology of motifs and an attempt at their spatial and cultural integration
As sociedades neandertais no Barlavento algarvio: modelos preditivos com recurso aos SIG
Authors: Maio Daniela
Published: November 2020

Studies related to Neanderthal populations in the western Algarve indicate that the occupied territories were located near the coastline, where the collection of aquatic resources and the hunting of small and large animals was part of the diet of these communities. To contribute with new data for the Middle Paleolithic, an Archaeological Predictive Model was created to analyze the patterns of occupation and exploration of the territory. The present study is based on an essentially statistical, descriptive and univariate approach, using dependent variables (i.e., archaeological sites) and independent variables (e.g., geomorphological, geographic data). The results obtained indicate an occupation of the territory, close to the coastline and dispersed in the territory, linked to important valleys and rivers
A utilização de quartzo durante o Paleolítico Superior no território dos vales dos rios Vouga e Côa
Authors: Gameiro Cristina , Aubry Thierry , Costa Bárbara , Gomes Sérgio , Luís Luís , Manzano Carmen , Santos André Tomás
Published: November 2020

Quartz has traditionally been regarded as a raw material of poor knapping quality. Indeed, the structure of this mineral determines the presence of cleavage planes which generate fractures and influence débitage. The fact that it is naturally available in regions where there is no flint or silcrete, however, resulted in its frequent exploitation by the Palaeolithic human communities that inhabited the Portuguese territory. The present research focuses on comparative data on the use of quartz in the Côa Valley (Fariseu and Cardina) and the Vouga Valley (Vau and Rôdo) sites during the Gravettian, Magdalenian and Azilian. The volume of data on the two areas being compared is uneven and we have little information on the technical tradition and functionality of the Vouga sites. There is, however, enough information to compare and identify, in these archaeological sites located in two different regions, the same conceptual scheme inherent to the chaîne opératoire applied to the different types of quartz
Novos dados sobre a Pré-história Antiga no concelho de Palmela. A intervenção arqueológica no sítio do Poceirão I
Authors: Santos Michelle Teixeira
Published: November 2020

Presentation of the results of the archaeological intervention at Poceirão I (Palmela) in 2009. The work consisted of conducting systematic prospecting using a grid and a survey to diagnose the archaeological potential, recording a combustion structure and stratigraphic reading. The results obtained, allowed to individualize two Locus, a considerable dispersion of chipped stone artifacts in flint, quartz and quartzite, but without pottery. However, the strong destruction of the site, the absence of preserved anthropic contexts and a stratigraphy with reduced potential was confirmed in the excavated area. Based on the observed surface data and the materials exhumed, on Poceirão I settlement seems to have been occupied, during the Mesolithic, by groups of hunter-gatherers from the Tejo-Sado inter-estuarine region
Povoamento pré-histórico nas áreas montanhosas do NO de Portugal: o Abrigo 1 de Vale de Cerdeira
Authors: Xavier Pedro , Meireles José , Alves Carlos
Published: November 2020

In the 1990’s set of field surveys took place in the mountains of NW Portugal, leading to the discovery of the archaeological site named ‘Rock Shelter 1 of Cerdeira Valley’, situated in Cabreira Mountain (NW Portugal, max. alt. 1,262 m). The evidences recovered from the archaeological excavations established the shelter occupation between the end of the VI / beginning of the 5th millennium BC. Since 2017, within the context of an ongoing Phd project, the stone tool assemblage of the shelter is being analysed, in a double perspective. The first one relates to the complete techno-typological, identifying the objectives of the stone tool production and the second concerns with the classification and characterisation of different raw-materials exploited by the prehistoric communities
O Processo de Neolitização na Plataforma do Mondego: os dados do Sector C do Outeiro dos Castelos de Beijós (Carregal do Sal)
Authors: Senna-Martinez João Carlos de , Ventura José Manuel Quintã , Carvalho Andreia , Maurício Cintía
Published: November 2020

Outeiro dos Castelos de Beijós (COCB) is a well-known archaeological site for its Late Bronze Age occupation (Senna-Martinez, 1993, 1994, 1995/1996a, 2000a and 2000b; Senna-Martinez e Nunes, 1993; Senna-Martinez e Ventura, 2008a; Senna-Martinez and Pedro, Eds. 2000). However, another anthropic use of this space, in the Early Neolithic, was still, without adequate dissemination. This happens despite the fact that part of the collections are on display at the Municipal Museum of Carregal do Sal and are part of the respective catalogue (Pinto, 2006; Senna-Martinez, 2006). In the 2004/2005 academic year, two students from FLUL’s Degree in Archeology – and collaborators in this article – proceeded to draw and carry out the typological analysis, within the scope of their final seminar, respectively of the pottery and the lithic industry associated with the Ancient Neolithic occupation. Here we recuperate these academic efforts and integrate their contribution following what has been one of Uniarq’s best traditions. We will also try to integrate the new COCB data in the broader scope of the Neolithisation of the Mondego inland basin and of the Portuguese Centre/North
Novos trabalhos na Lapa da Bugalheira (Almonda, Torres Novas)
Authors: Rodrigues Filipa , Souto Pedro , Ferreira Artur , Varanda Alexandre , Gomes Luís , Gomes Helena , Zilhão João
Published: November 2020

We present the results of the first year of the field work carried out at Lapa da Bugalheira (Almonda, Torres Novas) by the ARQEVO research project. We have identified an Early Neolithic occupation featuring a characteristic artefact assemblage with impressed wares (both cardial and “boquique”), geometric microliths and ornaments. The age of the assemblage has been corroborated by the radiocarbon dating of sheep and human bone samples. Comparable, coeval occupation contexts exist in the Central Limestone Massif of Estremadura, paramount among which is the Galeria da Cisterna’s (Almonda karst system)
A pedra polida e afeiçoada do sítio do Neolítico médio da Moita do Ourives (Benavente, Portugal)
Authors: Neves César
Published: November 2020

Presentation of the polished and ground stone tools artefacts from Neolithic site of Moita do Ourives. It corresponds to a low number of artifacts in poor preservation condition and high degree of fragmentation, making the typological and functional classification quite difficult. The tools production is based mainly on locally available raw materials, such as quartzite, sandstone and quartz (85% of the all set). Exogenous raw materials (amphibolite and granite), possibly obtained more than 40km from the site, represent 15% of the recovered elements. The results of this study allow, together with the analysis of other material culture elements, a reflection on the functionality of this settlement, as well as the mobility and socioeconomic activities of the communities of the Middle Neolithic in the Western Iberia
Casal do Outeiro (Encarnação, Mafra): novos contributos para o conhecimento do povoamento do Neolítico final na Península de Lisboa
Authors: Delicado Cátia , Costa Carlos Maneira e , Miranda Marta , Sousa Ana Catarina
Published: November 2020

Casal do Outeiro site (Encarnação, Mafra) was identified in 2020. It is located on a gentle slope, with sandy soils, a few meters from a water line subsidiary of the Safarujo River. The artefactual evidence seems to indicate the presence of a small neolithic settlement possibly from the second half of the 4th millenium, including evidence of local flint debitage, polished stone and manual ceramics, including a fragment of a denticulated rim. The surveys carried out allowed to identify other sites associated with Casal do Outeiro as caves and rockshelters with coeval materials. This site is analysed regarding the neolithic patterns settlements of the Lisbon Peninsular, mostly located in the southern part
Stresse infantil, morbilidade e mortalidade no sítio arqueológico do Neolítico Final/ Calcolítico (4º e 3º milénio a.C.) do Monte do Carrascal 2 (Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja)
Authors: Carvalho Liliana Matias de , Wasterlain Sofia N.
Published: November 2020

Children go through various stages of development and growth. The Barker and Osmond “Developmental Origins of Health and Disease” hypothesis states that the stress episodes suffered in intrauterine/early childhood life have negative consequences in adulthood (propensity to diseases and anticipation of the age of death). In order to estimate the frequency of childhood stress in a sample of the Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic and understand its impact on the adult life of individuals, a sample of Monte do Carrascal 2 (Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja) was analysed following the methodology of Reid and Dean (2000, 2006). The individuals in the sample do not present many signs of childhood stress, suggesting a special care taken upon the younger members of the community
Come together: O Conjunto Megalítico das Motas (Monção, Viana do Castelo) e as expressões Campaniformes do Alto Minho
Authors: Basílio Ana Catarino , Ramos Rui
Published: November 2020

The Motas Megalithic Complex, intervened between 2014-2015, made it possible to increase the existing knowledge of this type of funerary phenomenon in the Alto Minho region, filling a spatial gap between the Portela do Pau and Litoral Minhoto nucleus. It presents unique constructive characteristics and dynamics, which may, eventually, explain its broad use/reuse. In this Complex, Bell Beakers were identified in two of the structures, one of them carrying the most extensive set of containers so far identified in Alto Minho. This existence connects the site with the Bell Beaker phenomenon at a regional level, making it possible to understand that the “Bell Beaker communities” who used Motas’ Complex, would be extremely open and permeable to new ideas, having reinterpreted, and made it theirs, a geographically extensive phenomenon
Trabalhos arqueológicos no sítio Calcolítico da Pedreira do Poio
Authors: Magalhães Carla , Muralha João , Reis Mário , Fernandes António Batarda
Published: November 2020

This article intends to disclose the archaeological intervention carried out in late 2019, in Pedreira do Poio, as part of the Research Project “An investigation on the Late Prehistory of the Côa Valley. Dynamics of use and occupation of the territory”. The site was identified by archaeologists from the Côa Park Foundation. It is located in the middle of the exploration area of the Poio quarry and, when recognized, it was already quite destroyed. The main objective of this intervention was to recover as much information as possible. At the end of the work two ideas emerge: 1 – the site chronologically falls within Late Prehistory; 2 – its type is unprecedented in the region: a pit site
As faunas depositadas no Museu Arqueológico do Carmo provenientes de Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja): as campanhas de 1937 a 1967
Authors: Francisco Ana Catarina , Detry Cleia , Neves César , Martins Andrea , Diniz Mariana , Arnaud José Morais
Published: November 2020

The archaeological site of Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja) was discovered in 1936 through the surveys carried out by Hipólito Cabaço. In 1937, the first excavation campaign was led by Eugénio Jalhay and Afonso do Paço. With the death of the first, in 1950, Paço assumed, with occasional collaborations, the direction of the archaeological works on the site, until 1967. This article intends to analyse the fauna collected and described by Afonso do Paço during these campaigns, about which, however, there is no information on the stratigraphic provenance of artifacts and ecofacts. The data from these campaigns are also compared with the fauna collected during the 2017 and 2018 excavations, carried out under the VNSP3000 project. From this faunistic material without context, it was still possible to acquire some knowledge about species present in the vicinity of Vila Nova de São Pedro during the Chalcolithic
Análise funcional de material lítico em sílex do castro de Vila Nova de S. Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal): uma primeira abordagem
Authors: Lima Rafael
Published: November 2020

The conduction of a traceological analysis on a part of the collection of flint tools from the Vila Nova de S. Pedro castro allows, for one part, to demonstrate the feasibility to perform a functional analysis over a wider portion of the gathered materials, although with some caveats, and, on the other, place in evidence the importance of certain activities on the economical field, even though it is a preliminary analysis. It is observed, for now, the importance of agricultural practices, trough the employment of tools to cut soft vegetable matter/cereals, as well as the employment of arrow points as projectile tips. It is also observed the reutilization of tools trough processes of edge revival, which allows, together with the rest of the functional data, the realization of certain inferences and questions about the economic processes and the behaviour of the populations which inhabited the Vila Nova de S. Pedro castro
O recinto da Folha do Ouro 1 (Serpa) no contexto dos recintos de fossos calcolíticos alentejanos
Authors: Valera António Carlos , Pereiro Tiago do , Valério Pedro , Soares António M. Monge
Published: November 2020

This paper presents the first results of the archaeological work carried out in the Chalcolithic ditched enclosure of Folha do Ouro 1 (Serpa, Beja). The site was identified in an aerial image and integrated in the research developed by NIA-Era Arqueologia regarding this type of contexts and submitted to geophysics and surface prospection with collection of archaeological materials. Here, we address the assemblage of archaeological materials, the chronological scope of the site, its topographical location and architectonic characteristics observed in the magnetogram. The site is integrated in the regional context, comparing with the known characteristics of the Alentejo’s ditched enclosures
A estátua-menir do Pedrão ou de São Bartolomeu do Mar (Esposende, noroeste de Portugal) no contexto arqueológico da fachada costeira de entre os rios Neiva e Cávado
Authors: Bettencourt Ana M. S. , Santos-Estévez Manuel , Simões Pedro Pimenta , Gonçalves Luís
Published: November 2020

The statue-menhir of Pedrão was studied and revaluated in 2018 and it was found that it had a head, a rounded base and engravings, some of them destroyed by the anthropic action. It was found that the arrangement of the eight cup-marks on the south face, if joined, would form the typical rectangular motif of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula statues-menhirs, so it should be included in this group and in the same generic age. This statue-menhir is out of place, although testimonies and popular traditions indicate that it would be close to its original context: on the coastal platform in front of Mount of Sanfins. It will has functioned as a symbol of identity and power marking a geostrategic place of encounter between populations for religious, social and exchange purposes
As faunas do final da Idade do Bronze no Sul de Portugal: leituras desde o Outeiro do Circo (Beja)
Authors: Almeida Nelson J. , Dias Íris , Detry Cleia , Porfírio Eduardo , Serra Miguel
Published: November 2020

We present the results obtained from the analysis of unpublished faunal remains from the Bronze Age settlement of Outeiro do Circo (Beja). The materials provenance is diverse, corresponding mainly to one pit/ silo from trench 3 and the areas near the defensive systems designated trench 7 and 8. Hunting strategies are complementary in the assemblage, with a predominance of sheep and goat remains, followed by cattle and swine. Kill-off patterns with the presence of young and adult individuals are suggestive of a mixed economy with the exploitation of primary and secondary resources. Although highly fragmented and affected by postdepositional processes it was possible to record several anthropization indicators related to the butchering process and thermo-alteration of remains by fire
A Espada do Monte das Oliveiras (Serpa) – uma arma do Bronze Pleno do Sudoeste
Authors: Soares Rui M.G. Monge , Valério Pedro , Nabais Mariana , Soares António M. Monge
Published: November 2020

In this paper, we present a detailed examination of a sword dating from the Southwestern Middle Bronze Age, which was found several years ago during farming activities near the town of Serpa, Portugal. The sword was apparently found out of an archaeological context. The finder of the sword, who kindly allowed us to study it, cleaned the artefact of its corrosion and kept it in good conditions. The sword is about 50 cm long and its handle show two rivets (another one is missing) which are kept housed in notches. The rivets’ heads are spherical caps covered with a golden leaf. The use of a p-EDXRF equipment allowed us to determine and quantify the elemental composition of the blade, as well as of the golden leaf covering the rivet heads. It was thus possible to establish that the blade was manufactured with arsenical copper, while the composition of the golden leaf refers to a natural alloy. Finally, the Monte das Oliveiras sword is compared with several other coeval examples of Southern Iberia weaponry. Its hilt design, namely the three peripheral notches, seems to be of an unique variant in swords, being relatively rare in similarly shaped weapons, such as daggers
São Julião da Branca (Albergaria-a-Velha) - Investigação e valorização de um povoado do Bronze Final
Authors: Silva António Manuel S. P. , Lemos Paulo A. P. , Silva Sara Almeida e , Sá Edite Martins de
Published: November 2020

The archaeological site of São Julião is a Late Bronze Age settlement, located on the coastal platform between Douro and Vouga rivers, which has been the subject of systematic research projects since 2014. Its most striking structures are the stone wall that delimited the enclosure and a megalithic mound, violated or reused in modern or contemporary times. The archaeological collection includes a significant set of ceramics, objects in stone and metals, with emphasis on a pair of gold earrings, perhaps related to the evidence of metallurgy that is observed in the place. Currently, a site’s archeological conservation and enhancement program is underway, with the support of the Municipality
A sequência de ocupação no quadrante sudeste de Bracara Augusta: as transformações de uma unidade doméstica
Authors: Fernandes Lara , Martins Manuela
Published: November 2020

The excavation work carried out on the ground of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Braga between 1999 and 2000, helped to uncover a set of structures that would prove to be important for the study of the urbanism and the domestic architecture of the Roman era, as it is located in a sector of the city with a great archeological potential and little constructive overlap, in territories abandoned after the Late Antiquity, In this article we inted to make know some of the excaveted stuctures that formalize a domestic unit inserted in a block of the Roman city of Bracara Augusta, built in the High Empire and remodeled in the tetrarchic period. To this end, the traces identified in the intervention in Tabuleiro A of the ground of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Braga will be assessed
“Casa Romana” do Castro de São Domingos (Cristelos, Lousada): Escavação, Estudo e Musealização
Authors: Lemos Paulo André de P.
Published: November 2020

In this article we present the results of archaeological work carried out in the Roman settlement on the halfslope of the hill of São Domingos, included in the research project “Excavation, study and musealization of the “Casa Romana” (Roman House) of the Hillfort of São Domingos”. This project arises from the expressed intention of the local authority of Lousada to carry out a clarifying and valorization study of the mentioned archaeological place, under the scientific coordination of the signatory, although opened to the participation of other collaborators/investigators
A arqueobotânica no Castro de Guifões (Matosinhos, Noroeste de Portugal): O primeiro estudo carpológico
Authors: Seabra Luís , Arezes Andreia , Magalhães Catarina , Varela José , Tereso João Pedro
Published: November 2020

The Castro de Guifões (Matosinhos, Noroeste de Portugal), strategically settled nearby the river Leça, has been studied by several archaeologists, since the end of the XIX century. In 2016, new archaeological excavations led to the recovery of sediment samples for archaeobotanical analyses. This work presents the carpological results (fruits and seeds) of samples from four campaigns, covering a large time-span, between the Iron Age and the Late Antiquity, as well as a diverse set of archaeological contexts. The results showed a predominance of cereals, mainly broomcorn millet and naked wheat. Rye, and above all foxtail millet and barley appeared in smaller amounts
Ponderais romanos na Lusitânia: padrões, formas, materiais e contextos de utilização
Authors: Barrios Rodríguez Diego
Published: November 2020

The weight systems and their testimonies are one of the most evident signs to identify of cultural groups. However, this type of material has received very little attention among historians and archaeologists due to its low material and formal attractive. The compilation of finds in the Lusitanian area has allowed to observe interesting details about the Roman implantation system. The finds in military settlement and indigenous oppida contexts are very revealing the coexistence and, later, the substitution of local patterns for the Roman. For precisely this reason, we have focused our interest on examining the materials these pieces are made of, their shapes, their values and their finding context
Estruturas romanas de Carnide – Lisboa
Authors: Batalha Luísa , Monteiro Mário , Cardoso Guilherme
Published: November 2020

The archeological excavations carried out at Sant’Anna Palace, Carnide (Lisbon) revealed Roman occupation documented by the remains of an opus signinum coated pavement. Possibly a tank or a well dug in bed rock, circle shaped built with dry stone masonry. It was deactivated and filled with dirt, stones and other archeological materials. Standing out among the collected Roman materials we can find: terra sigillata ceramic fragments, Lusitana and Bética type amphoras, common ceramic, as well as static part of a sandstone millstone, which lead us to the conclusion that this place was occupied between the 1st and 3rd centuries A. C.