Pedro M. Lourenço Gonçalves
Associated researcher
The Charles McBurney Laboratory for Geoarchaeology
Division of Archaeology
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
pmlgoncalves2@gmail.com
Research Interests
• Archaeology
• Geoarchaeology
• Landscape evolution
• Human vs. Environment interactions
• Palaeoenvironment
• Palaeoecology
• Earth Sciences
• Architecture
• Egyptology
Short Bio
Academic record
• 2018: Ph.D in Archaeology (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge). Dissertation: Landscape and environmental changes at Memphis during the dynastic period in Egypt
• 2008: MSc in Geo-Sciences (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Coimbra). Dissertation title: A evolução Holocénica do rio Lis e da Laguna da Pederneira
• 1997: BA (Hons) in Architecture (Lusíada University, Lisboa)
Professional experience
• 2017: Archaeologist – Field Assistant in geophysical prospections and reviser/editing/translator, for Eastern Atlas (Berlin, Germany)
• 2015: Archaeologist – Field Assistant, for Cambridge Archaeological Unit (Cambridge, UK)
• 2011: Geoarchaeologist – Instructor and Augering Field Assistant in the Mit Rahina Field-school 2011, for the Ancient Egypt Research Associates, American Research Center in Egypt, The Egypt Exploration Society and Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt (Mit Rahina, Egypt)
• 1997 to 2011: Architect – for the offices of Architecture José Fava, Lda. – Associated Architects (Leiria, Portugal) and Frazão & Vitorino, Architects ( Leiria, Portugal) .
• Bunbury, J., A. Tavares, B. Pennington and P. Gonçalves (2017). Development of the Memphite Floodplain: Landscape and Settlement Symbiosis in the Egyptian Capital Zone. In H. Willems and J.-M. Dahms (eds.), The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt. Mainz Historical Cultural Sciences series vol. 36: 71-96. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
• Accetta, K., R. Fellinger, P. L. Gonçalves, S. Musselwhite and W. P. van Pelt (eds) (2014). Current Research in Egyptology 2013, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Symposium. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow.
• Gonçalves, P., K. Spence and J. Bunbury (2012). Holocene landscape and environmental changes in the capital zone of Egypt: an interdisciplinary approach to evolutionary processes (poster). In J. Cascalheira and C. Gonçalves (eds) Actas das IV Jornadas de Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica – JIA 2011, Volume II. Promontoria Monográfica 16. Faro: Núcleo de Arqueologia e Paleoecologia e Departamento de Artes e Humanidades da Universidade do Algarve.
• Gonçalves, P. and J. L. Dinis (2010). The Holocene evolution of the Lis River – a historical, geomorphological and sedimentological approach (poster). In M.C. Freitas and C. Andrade (eds.), Proceedings of the Iberian Coastal Holocene Paleoenvironmental Evolution – Coastal Hope 2010: 59-60. Lisboa: Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Gonçalves, P. (2009). Mudanças ambientais à escala local: a bacia hidrográfica do rio Lis [English translation: Environmental changes at local scale: the river Lis catchment area]. BARLIA, Revista Científica sobre Ambiente e Desenvolvimento 5: 7-29. Leiria: OIKOS – Associação de Defesa do Ambiente e do Património da Região de Leiria.
• Dinis, J.L., V. Henriques and P. Gonçalves (2006). Architecture, environmental changes and relations to sea-level in a silted-up coastal lagoon of Central Portugal Holocene (Abstract). In K. Hoyanagi, O. Takano and K. Kano (eds.), Proceedings of 17th International Sedimentological Congress, volume B, Fukuoka (Japan) Ø-265: 146.