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Arqueologia às 6 – session 2 podcast available [portuguese]
The podcast of the second talk of the 2018 edition of Arqueologia às 6 is now available [only in portuguese]. This time our guest was Dr. Lucy Evangelista from ERA Arqueologia and ICArEHB associated researcher. Dr. Evangelista talk focused on physical anthropology results from the Neolithic and Calcolithic ditched enclosure site of Perdigões. The…
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ICArEHB gets two more projects funded by the portuguese national science foundation
ICArEHB has seen two more applications funded by the portuguese national science foundation (FCT) with an eligible investment of around 500 thousand euros. Although there are still some projects wainting for the evaluation results, ICArEHB is, so far, the most successful archaeology-related center in the context of the latest FCT call for R&D projects. Fire…
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Wenner-Gren Foundation funds excavations in new Middle and Late Stone Age sites in southern Mozambique
A new project , leaded by ICArEHB director Dr. Nuno Bicho, has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation to carry out testing and excavations at the Middle and Late Stone Age sites in the Machampane valley (Massingir), in the Limpopo river basin (southern Mozambique). Mozambique is an ideal region to study modern human origins since…
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New study on the diet and mobility of Neolithic and Calcolithic faunas from Perdigões
A new study addressing the diet and mobility of domestic and wild fauna from the Neolithic-Chalcolithic at the Perdigões enclosure just came out in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. In this article the authors use stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data to show that the animals subsisted on a selection of C3 terrestrial resources,…
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ICArEHB gets 500 thousand euros for two new projects on the Middle-Upper Paleolithic of Algarve and the Muge shellmiddens
In the context of the latest FCT call for R&D projects, ICArHEB has seen two applications funded, with an eligible investment of around 500 thousand euros. Both projects were funded within Algarve Operational Program. The project “Origins and Evolution of Human Cognition and the Impact of Coastal Ecology on the Iberian SW” will investigate the…
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Supraorbital morphology and social dynamics in human evolution – new paper out in NatureEcoEvo
A new article by Dr. Ricardo Godinho et al. has just been published in the prestigious journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. The article adds important data to the debate concerning the morphology of the browridge in Homo species, which, thus far, was thought to be significantly impacted by biting mechanics. Based on the virtual manipulation of…