Past Cultures and Populations

Publications

Coordinator

Vítor Matos (CIAS)

Gomes, R. A. M. P., Santos, A. L., & Catarino, L. (2024). Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone. International Journal of Paleopathology, 44, 85–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.12.004
Navega, D., Ferreira, M. T., & Curate, F. (2024). Eigenfemora—Age-at-Death Estimation in the Proximal Femur through an Image Processing Approach. Forensic Sciences, 4(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3390/forensicsci4010001
Capasso, G., Neves, D., Sperduti, A., Cristiani, E., & Manzo, A. (2024). Direct evidence of plant consumption in Neolithic Eastern Sudan from dental calculus analysis. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 4278. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53300-z
Monteiro, S., Curate, F., Garcia, S., & Cunha, E. (2024). The Identification Potential of Atherosclerotic Calcifications in the Context of Forensic Anthropology. Biology, 13(2), 66. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13020066
Willman, J. C., Coutinho Nogueira, D., & Silva, A. M. (2024). Reassessing trauma in a Late Neolithic cranium from Megalitho da Capella (Figueira da Foz, Portugal). Anthropologischer Anzeiger. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2024/1771
Calleja, Á. M. M., Lourenço, M., Macedo, M., Gaspar, R. R., Ribeiro, M. L., & Santos, A. L. (2024). Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe: potential association with malaria and past migrations. Anthropological Science, advpub, 231105. https://doi.org/10.1537/ase.231105
Santos, A. L., Magalhães, B. M., & Roggio, C. (2023). Changes in mortality by tuberculosis in non-industrialized Coimbra (Portugal): Trends between 1861 and 1914. Tuberculosis, 143, 102394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2023.102394
Roggio, C., Magalhães, B. M., & Santos, A. L. (2023). Adult sex estimation based on the 12th thoracic and 1st lumbar vertebrae from a Portuguese contemporary population: Effects of degenerative lesions and comparison of accuracy with other skeletal areas. La Revue de Médecine Légale, 14(4), 100402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medleg.2023.100402
Granja, R., Araújo, A. C., Lugli, F., Silvestrini, S., Silva, A. M., & Gonçalves, D. (2023). Unbalanced sex-ratio in the Neolithic individuals from the Escoural Cave (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal) revealed by peptide analysis. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 19902. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47037-4
Lourenço, A. C., Nogueira, H. G., Rodrigues, D., Gama, A., Machado-Rodrigues, A. M., Silva, M. R. G., & Padez, C. (2023). Observing the neighborhood multidimensionality and overweight in children of different developmental stages—the emergence of an unusual association. European Journal of Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-023-05326-0
Godinho, R. M., Umbelino, C., Valera, A. C., Carvalho, A. F., Bicho, N., Cascalheira, J., Gonçalves, C., & Smith, P. (2023). Mandibular morphology and the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Westernmost Iberia. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 16648. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42846-z
Monge Calleja, Á. M., Luna, L. H., Aranda, C. M., & Santos, A. L. (2023). Methods for sex estimation of prepubertal individuals (< 12 years old): bibliographic review and future directions. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 439–469. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2022/1607
Monge Calleja, Á., Santos, A. L., & Gomes, R. A. M. P. (2023). INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON POROUS SKELETAL: Achievements and future directions. Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/108791
Curto, A., Ferro, S., Santos, C., Lourenço, M., Fahy, G. E., Anselmo, D., & Fernandes, T. (2023). Comparing morphological (os coxae) and metric (long bone length) sex estimation methods in archaeological collections. Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht Uber Die Biologisch-Anthropologische Literatur. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2023/1730
Manso, M. T., & Matos, V. M. J. (2023). Spina bifida, the normal, the pathological and the in-between: first evidence from a forensic osteological collection. International Journal of Legal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-03066-2
Maranho, R., Ferreira, M. T., & Curate, F. (2023). Secular Trends in the Size and Shape of the Scapula among the Portuguese between the 19th and the 21st Centuries. Biology, 12(7), 928. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12070928
Oliveira-Santos, I., Gomes, R. A. M. P., Coelho, C., Gil, F., Cunha, E., Baptista, I. P., & Ferreira, M. T. (2023). All that glitters is not gold: X-ray fluorescence analysis of a fixed dental prosthesis from Colecção de Esqueletos Identificados Século XXI, Portugal (CEI/XXI). International Journal of Legal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-03048-4
Curate, F., Alves, I., Rodrigues, T., & Garcia, S. J. (2023). Assigned sex estimation with the clavicle and scapula: A study in a Portuguese reference sample. Medicine, Science and the Law, 00258024231174822. https://doi.org/10.1177/00258024231174822
Partido Navadijo, M., Monge Calleja, Á. M., Ferreira, M. T., & Alemán Aguilera, I. (2023). Validation of discriminant functions from the rib necks in two Portuguese adult identified populations. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 137(3), 851–861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-023-02957-8
Godinho, R. M., Umbelino, C., Garcia, S., & Gonçalves, C. (2023). Changes in dental wear magnitude in the last ∼8000 years in southwestern Iberia. Archives of Oral Biology, 147, 105626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2023.105626
Assis, S., & Garcia, J. (2023). A rare femoral heterotopic bone formation in a 14th-19th century female skeleton from Constância (Portugal). International Journal of Paleopathology, 40, 93–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.12.004
Schug, G. R., Buikstra, J. E., DeWitte, S. N., Baker, B. J., Berger, E., Buzon, M. R., Davies-Barrett, A. M., Goldstein, L., Grauer, A. L., Gregoricka, L. A., Halcrow, S. E., Knudson, K. J., Larsen, C. S., Martin, D. L., Nystrom, K. C., Perry, M. A., Roberts, C. A., Santos, A. L., Stojanowski, C. M., … Zakrzewski, S. R. (2023). Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(4). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209472120
Bas, M., Kurzmann, C., Willman, J., Pany-Kucera, D., Rebay-Salisbury, K., & Kanz, F. (2023). Dental wear and oral pathology among sex determined Early Bronze-Age children from Franzhausen I, Lower Austria. PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0280769. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280769
Casimiro, T. M., Curate, F., & Antunes-Ferreira, N. (2023). African Presence in Portugal: People and Things Within Material, Social, and Power Relations. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 0(0), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2023.2290811
Sobreira, L. B., Cunha, E., & Curate, F. (2023). Biological sex estimation with femoral dimensions: a study of an adult sample from the osteological collection of Granada (Spain). Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 0(0), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2023.2270648
Rosa, J., Marques, M. P. M., Gonçalves, D., & Ferreira, M. T. (2023). Half a century of systematic research on heat-induced colour changes in bone – A review. Science and Justice, 63(5), 573–580. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2023.07.002
Moots, H. M., Antonio, M., Sawyer, S., Spence, J. P., Oberreiter, V., Weiß, C. L., Lucci, M., Cherifi, Y. M. S., La Pastina, F., Genchi, F., Praxmeier, E., Zagorc, B., Cheronet, O., Özdoğan, K. T., Demetz, L., Amrani, S., Candilio, F., De Angelis, D., Gasperetti, G., … Pinhasi, R. (2023). A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7(9), 1515–1524. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02143-4
Nogueira, Dany Coutinho, Godinho, Ricardo Miguel, Gonçalves, Célia, Cascalheira, João, Bicho, Nuno, & Umbelino, Cláudia. (2023). The anthropological significance of Mesolithic Muge, 160 years of discoveries and challenges. Magos, Cultural Magazine. X, 160 Years of the Discoveries of the Shellmiddens of Muge: 1863-2023, 157–170. https://www.calameo.com/books/0074533361bae6e537429?fbclid=IwAR3YdyluBFnwOfETxhr-8JqsH7vAbesD3pLxb8nlndSeJsTvtvjOTp1TN7Q
Antunes-Ferreira, N., Curate, F., Prates, C., Bertrand, B., & Marques, C. (2023). The rarest among the rare? Acrometastases and disability in the past and beyond. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3258
Magalhães, B. M., Mays, S., Stark, S., & Santos, A. L. (2023). A biocultural study of nasal fracture, violence, and gender using 19th–20th century skeletal remains from Portugal. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3233
Wolska, B., Vassalo, A. R., Marques, M. P. M., Esteves Batista de Carvalho, L., & Gonçalves, D. (2023). Reaching new heights: Testing the performance of metric approaches to estimate stature from burned skeletal remains. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 68(1), 252–256. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15175
Rosa, J., Vassalo, A. R., Amarante, A., Batista de Carvalho, L. A. E., Marques, M. P. M., Ferreira, M. T., & Gonçalves, D. (2023). Burned and buried: A vibrational spectroscopy analysis of burial-related diagenetic changes of heat-altered human bones. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 180(3), 534–547. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24691
Curate, Francisco, & Olaio, Ana. (2023). Os ossos humanos do Sítio Arqueológico da Quinta do Almaraz (Almada): breve descrição antropológica. Al-Madan, 26(1), 85–91. https://issuu.com/almadan
Pérez-Aguilar, L.-G., & Agulla, S. O. (2022). El asentamiento rural romano de la Venta El Parrao (Alcalá de Guadaíra, España): Nuevos datos arqueológicos. Ophiussa. Revista do Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, 6. https://doi.org/10.51679/ophiussa.2022.97
Silva, S. F. A. da. (2022). Associação entre osteoartrose e osteoporose na Coleção de Esqueletos Identificados da Universidade de Coimbra. Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra. [Orientação: Ana Maria Gama da Silva, Coorientação: Francisco Curate]. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/103143
Alves, J. C. C. (2022). Análise da dieta consumida por uma amostra populacional de indivíduos provenientes da Necrópole Cristã da Alcáçova do Castelo, de Mértola, através do estudo dos grãos de amido presentes no tártaro dentário. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra [Orientadora: Cláudia Isabel Soares Umbelino]. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/102882
Pandiani, C. D., Santos, A. L., & Suby, J. A. (2022). Procesos infecciosos en cazadores-recolectores de Patagonia Austral: Evidencias en restos óseos del Holoceno medio y tardío (ca. 5200-100 años aP). Latin American Antiquity, 33(2), 376–394. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2021.64
Lopes, C., & Fernandes, T. (2022). The Identified Skeleton Collection of Évora: importance for forensic science and bioarchaeology in the southern inland of Portugal. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 136(3), 955–962. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-021-02725-6
Bernáldez Sánchez, E., Veas, A., García-Viñas, E., Ubera, J., Trillo, C., García, M., & Frei, K. (2022). El patrimonio arqueológico orgánico de la necrópolis de la Joya (Huelva). Fauna, flora y movilidad. In TEJERA , ANTONIO & TOSCANO-PÉREZ , CLARA (Eds.), La necrópolis tartésica de La Joya (Huelva) 50 años después (pp. 107–142).
Dias, V., Encarnação, G., Carvalho, Liliana, Yuliet Quintino Arias, Fernandes, D., Franco, F., Pinhasi, R., Conejo Delgado, N., & Oliveira, C. (2022). “Dar rosto à Villa” - Projecto de aproximação facial em torno de um esqueleto da Necrópole Romana do Moinho do Castelinho (Amadora, Portugal). In Lisboa Romana - A morte no Ager olisiponensis. Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. https://dspace.uevora.pt/rdpc/handle/10174/33607
González-Garrido, L., Gómez-González, S., Gonzalo-Orden, J. M., & Wasterlain, S. N. (2022). Multi-headed (bifid and trifid) mandibular condyles in archaeological contexts: Two posttraumatic cases. Archives of Oral Biology, 134, 105326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2021.105326
Calleja, Á. M. M. (2022). FINAIS DE VIDA PRECOCES: Estudo paleopatológico (macroscópico, microscópico e documental) das causas de morte infantis com especial interesse na porosidade extracortical. Universidade de Coimbra [Orientação Professora Ana Luísa Santos e Maria Antónia Lopes]. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/99272
Cuzzullin, M. C., Curate, F., Freire, A. R., Costa, S. T., Prado, F. B., Daruge Junior, E., Cunha, E., & Rossi, A. C. (2022). Validation of anthropological measures of the human femur for sex estimation in Brazilians. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 54(1), 61–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2020.1729411
Emslie, S. D., Silva, A. M., Valera, A., Vijande Vila, E., Melo, L., Curate, F., Fidalgo, D., Inácio, N., Molina Moreno, M., Cambra-Moo, O., González Martín, A., Barroso-Bermejo, R., Montero Artús, R., & García Sanjuán, L. (2022). The use and abuse of cinnabar in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 32(1), 202–214. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3056
Mascarenhas, J. (2022). Preservação Diferencial Óssea e Tafonomia de Uma Amostra Osteológica do Convento de Na Sra de Aracoelli. Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra. [Orientação: Ana Maria Gama da Silva, Coorientação: Francisco Curate]. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/103114
Santos, A.L. (2022). Bernardino Machado e a Seção de Antropologia do Museu de História Natural da Universidade de Coimbra. In «Abraço vivamente a sua ideia» Bernardino Machado, José Leite de Vasconcelos e os Museus em Portugal. Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda.
Pérez-Aguilar, L.-G., & Mateos-Orozco, A. (2022). Control de movimientos de tierras en el Cerro del Castillo de Alcalá de Guadaíra (Sevilla): Nuevos datos arqueológicos para las épocas romana, medieval y postmedieval. Fundación Nuestra Señora del Águila (Alcalá de Guadaira). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/279873
Pérez-Aguilar, L.-G., Caballero Márquez, P., Gordillo Salguero, D., & Nieto Domínguez, V. (2022). Cambios climáticos, crisis de subsistencia y poblamiento humano en el SW Hispano entre la Prehistoria reciente y la Edad Media: las comarcas del Bajo Guadalquivir (Andalucía) y Tierra de Barros (Extremadura). In J.J. Martínez García & P.D. Conesa Navarro (Eds.), Crisis y muerte en la Antigüedad: reflexiones desde la historia y la arqueología (pp. 39–58). Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=8652152
Matos, V. M. J, Santos, A. L., & Deps, P. D. (2022). Paleopatologia da Hanseníase: O que revelam os esqueletos. In Deps, P. (Ed.), Hanseníase na prática clínica (pp. 369–378). Editora dos editores.
Marques, C., Compton, Z., & Boddy, A. (2022). Connecting paleopathology and evolutionary medicine to cancer research: past and present. In Plomp, K., Roberts, C., Elton, S., & Bentley, G. (Eds.), Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine. Oxford University Press.

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