Maria João Valente
(Maria João de Sá Viana Sampaio e Melo Valente)
Associated Researcher, ICArEHB
Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB)
FCHS, University of Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
8005-139 Faro
Portugal
Professor, FCHS UAlg
Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais.
Campus de Gambelas
8000-117 Faro
Other Affiliations
CEAACP. UNIARQ. IEM
ORCID: 0000-0002-6137-5995
Research Interests
My primary focus is zooarchaeology, particularly the role of animal resources in human diets. Key areas of my research include: the use of animal resources by the last hunter-gatherers and early farming and herding communities in Iberia; Mesolithic subsistence and territorial strategies; zooarchaeological methodologies; and the study of human diets and animal resources during the Roman and Medieval Islamic periods in Iberia.
Short Bio
I have been a professor at the University of Algarve since 1998, and currently am the director the Cultural Heritage and Archaeology program (1st cycle). I concluded my Ph.D. in 2008, in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Algarve with the subject of zooarchaeology in the Portuguese Mesolithic. I have supervised several postgraduate students and published on zooarchaeology from different periods (Paleolithic to Medieval times).