Balsa, Topografia e Urbanismo de uma Cidade Portuária

Geophysical surveys, field walking prospections and archaeological excavations recently carried out and still ongoing under the project, “Balsa, searching the origins of Algarve”, have allowed us to know more about this ancient city, namely by assessing what is still preserved and / or what it will have been destroyed, the extension of the city, some of its urban and topographic realities or, definitively eliminating hypotheses of archaeological realities that, evidently, never existed. Based on a multivariate methodology and using different technologies and specialists, the results of the work already carried out allowed us to attest that the city is smaller than was supposed, extending along a narrow strip along the Ria Formosa; they also allowed to know the orientation of the urban plan, the location and extent of its main necropolis, the location of the forum, as well as some aspects of the way the city has evolved.

Arqueologia e Arqueólogos no Norte de Portugal

This paper intends to present quantitative data on Archeology in the North of Portugal between 1970 and the beginning of the 20th century. Archeology teaching, archaeologists, institutions with labour in Archeology and archaeological activity are analyzed, seeking to identify convergences and divergences, in relation to the national reality. Higher education establishments in the region and their training offer are covered. The distributions by sex, age, qualification, form of exercise of the activity, type of employment relationship and institutional framework of northern archaeologists are presented. On the archaeological activity, the category (research, valorisation, preventive and emergency), typology and institutional framework and also urban archeology and the one developed in underwater or humid environments are addressed.

Antropologia Virtual: novas metodologias para a análise morfológica e funciona

Bioanthropology examines skeletal morphology to infer diverse aspects of the funerary behaviour and palaeobiology of past populations. Conventional morphological metric (morphometrics) analysis has typically used linear measurements, ratios and angles. Yet, such quantifications do not allow visualization of the morphological differences nor prediction of the mechanical performance of bones (which may induce morphological differences between populations with diverse behaviours). Virtual Anthropology, which musters several techniques deriving from the exponential technological development of the past decades, provides new approaches to the analysis and understanding of the examined populations. Here, we summarize the techniques used in Virtual Anthropology and how this discipline may augment our understanding of the populations under study.

Arqueologia marítima em Cabo Verde: enquadramento e primeiros resultados do projecto CONCHA

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 works.

As pinturas murais romanas da Rua General Sousa Machado, n.º51, Chaves

In the archaeological diagnosis carried out in the pre-construction phase, at Rua General Sousa Machado, 51, in Chaves, as part of a work related to the rehabilitation of a property, the archeology team identified Roman structures belonging to a residential building. In two of the walls belonging to the referenced building, were detected two freshly painted panels (mural paintings). A plan for the conservation and restoration of the paintings was carried out to allow their preservation. The mural contexts under analysis were totally unknown in the current territory of Trás-os-Montes.

A Alta Idade Média na fronteira de Lafões: notas preliminares sobre a Arqueologia no Concelho de Vouzela

The Lafões territory was subjected to an intense human occupation since Protohistoric times, focused on the exploitatian of its mineral wealth. In the Early Middle Ages it was a kea-area where written and archaeological evidence shows its importance for local Christian populations and to recently-established Galician-Asturian lords. After almost a century of Christian rule, the Lafões region was temporarily back in Muslim hands, only to be finally regained when Viseu and Coimbra were reconquered (in 1058 and 1064, respectively). At that time, the fort that has now been revealed archaeologically on Monte da Senhora do Castelo (Mount of Our Lady of the Castle) in Vouzela would have already a relevant strategic functions.

Os Museus de Arqueologia e os Jovens: a oferta educativa para o público adolescente

In the last decades, the museums have shown a strong growth in the dynamics of their educational services, both at national and international level. These dynamics appeared, above all, in response to the need to conserve and enrich the cultural heritage and to educate the different audiences. However, the audiences and the interests change over time and the museums need to adapt and pursue these changes. Therefore, the need to meet the new interests and to attract new audiences has become increasingly relevant and substantial. This study focuses on the necessity of attracting new audiences in archaeological museums, more precisely on the teen audience between 13th and 17th years old, that has proved to be a challenge.

Dinâmicas económicas em Bracara na Antiguidade Tardia

The study of the historical period that followed the Western Roman Empire evidenced social and economic transformations that had great expression in the urban fabric of cities. In this sense, we propose a synthesis of the economic dynamics of Bracara in Late Antiquity, a period marked by the affirmation of new urban, social, political and religious realities, as well as by the gradual abandonment of constraints and imperatives that marked the previous city. For that, we will use data from archaeological interventions carried out in Braga, which document how transformations occurred between 3rd-8th centuries, a period delimited by the elevation of the city to capital of Gallaecia and Muslim invasions, which mark the end of trade at Mediterranean level.

As faunas do final da Idade do Bronze no Sul de Portugal: leituras desde o Outeiro do Circo (Beja).

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.

Casal do Outeiro (Encarnação, Mafra): novos contributos para o conhecimento do povoamento do Neolítico final na Península de Lisboa.

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.