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  • Hunter-gatherers and drastic climate change – new volume published in the Journal of Quaternary Science

    Hunter-gatherers and drastic climate change – new volume published in the Journal of Quaternary Science

     Dr. João Cascalheira and Dr. Nuno Bicho are the editors of a new special issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science, entitled “The impact of drastic environmental changes in prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptations”. The volume brings together 9 contributions addressing strategic changes in the organization of prehistoric hunter‐gatherers as a response to drastic climate and environmental…

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  • Lithic technology, use-wear and raw materials sourcing of Muge shellmiddens – new paper in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

    Lithic technology, use-wear and raw materials sourcing of Muge shellmiddens – new paper in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

    A new paper by a group of ICArEHB researchers, headed by Dr. Eduardo Paixão, just came out in the Journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Using lithic materials from one of the largest Mesolithic shellmounds in Europe – Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge) – the paper addresses several aspects related to raw material sourcing, technological dynamics and…

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  • Arqueologia às 6 – podcast available [portuguese]

    Arqueologia às 6 – podcast available [portuguese]

      The podcast of the first talk of the 2018 edition of Arqueologia às 6 is now available [only in portuguese]. Our first guest was Dr. Cláudia Umbelino, professor of Anthropology at the University of Coimbra and ICArEHB associated researcher. Dr. Umbelino talk focused on several case studies from different chronologies, where the analysis of…

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  • Modern human masticatory system is more efficient at converting muscle forces

    Modern human masticatory system is more efficient at converting muscle forces

      Dr. Ricardo Godinho, ICArEHB researcher, just published a new collaborative paper in Journal of Human Evolution on “The biting performance of Homo sapiens and Homo heidelbergensis”. The study compares crania of Homo heidelbergensis and H. sapiens with respect to mechanical advantages of masticatory muscles, force production efficiency, strains experienced by the cranium and modes…

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  • New paper out in Nature featuring ICArEHB researcher

    New paper out in Nature featuring ICArEHB researcher

    A new study published in Nature, featuring ICArEHB’s researcher Dr. João Luís Cardoso, detected limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and thus exclude migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions. The full version of this article can be found here.

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  • Dr. Alice Leplongeon talk on Cultural dynamics in Eastern Africa

    Dr. Alice Leplongeon talk on Cultural dynamics in Eastern Africa

    On 19th March, Dr. Alice Leplongeon, Post-doctoral researcher at the french National Museum of Natural History is giving a talk on the Cultural dynamics in Eastern Africa during the Late Pleistocene. The talk will focus mostly on the sites of Goda Buticha (Ethiopia) and Enkapune Ya Muto (Kenya) where Dr. Leplongeon have been recently working.…

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  • New paper out in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

    New paper out in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

    Dr. Rita Dias, ICArEHB researcher, just published a new research paper in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, entitled: “Mesolithic human occupation and seasonality: sclerochronology, δ18O isotope geochemistry, and diagenesis verification by Raman and LA-ICP-MS analysis of Argyrosomus regius (meagre) sagittae otoliths from layer 1 of Cabeço da Amoreira Mesolithic shell midden (Muge, Portugal)”. The…

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  • ICArEHB organizes workshop on publishing in Humanities and Social Sciences

    ICArEHB organizes workshop on publishing in Humanities and Social Sciences

    Teresa Krauss, Executive Editor of the Springer-Nature Company is giving a workshop on publishing in Humanities and Social Sciences. The event will take place Thursday, 22nd March at the Campus de Gambelas of Universidade do Algarve. The workshop is free and open to all Social Sciences and Humanities researchers, including professionals in Sociology, Archaeology, Psichology,…

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  • 2018 edition of the Arqueologia às 6 public talks

    2018 edition of the Arqueologia às 6 public talks

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Arqueologia às 6 talks are public events organized by ICArEHB where non-specialists can hear and talk with researchers about several archaeology-related topics. The talks happen in a public space every other month on a Friday at 6 p.m. The 2018 edition is dedicated to the Archaeology of Death and will count with the participations of…

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