Main Researcher: Vítor M. J. Matos
The present unit focuses on the relevance of skeletal remains to the study of the human condition and human behavior in general. Human bone is the basis of the work here undertaken. Therefore, in this unit several analysis of past populations, from the Mesolithic to the Modern Era are being carried out with the aim of revealing life history at both the individual and the population levels. Since this analysis starts on the field, we are involved with several excavations of human bones from archaeological contexts. Their paleobiological study is done on the Laboratory of Paleodemography and Paleopathology in the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Coimbra University, which is collaborating both with the Service of Imagiology of the Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra and with the National Institute of Forensic Medicine.
The items analysed varied from sex diagnoses, age at death, morphological aspects, paleopathology, such as infectious and rheumatic diseases, stress indicators and dietary behavior. Many of this topics are being researched as masters and Phd thesis. For these researches the potential of the well documented, large and identified skeletal collections of Museu Antropológico of the University of Coimbra has been fundamental.
Coordinator
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations (Group Coordinator) 
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: vmatos@antrop.uc.pt
Researchers (PhD)
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: alsantos@antrop.uc.pt
Phone number: +351 239 240 718
Research interests:
Biological Anthropology; Paleopathology, History of diseases, Funerary Anthropology.
Skeletal Biology, Age-at- death, Paleodemography.
Pre-Columbian Caribbean.
Multidisciplinary approach to the study of human skeletal remains, articulating data
obtained directly from macroscopic and radiological observations with information
from secondary sources, such as documents, archives and iconographies.
The study of health in past populations in particular the spread of infectious diseases, as
a consequence of migration, socioeconomic changes and wars.
Evolution of diagnosis, therapeutic and prevention of diseases in the last millennia such
as the changes of behaviours and exclusion of patients from society.
Personal URL:
http://www.uc.pt/fctuc/dcv/pessoas/docentes/a_santos/index
Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001- 6073-1532
Scopus: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=13204856100
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pzdUetYAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Luisa_Santos
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaLuisaSantos
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=3477900544307421
Researcher ID: A-1128- 2010
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: amgsilva@antrop.uc.pt
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Silva44
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaMariaSilva
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=8719481131162428
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS)
Department of Life Sciences
Email: lopesc@ci.uc.pt
Research interests:
The main research interest focuses on:
- the study of populations of the past;
- paleopathology, in particular the spread of infectious diseases and their impact on human skeleton;
- History of diseases, evolution of diagnosis, therapeutic and prevention;
- Funerary Anthropology.
Ongoing Projects:
“A transição epidemiológica no interior de Portugal continental contada através dos ossos. Estudo demográfico e paleopatológico da coleção identificada de Évora.” – Investigação de pós-doutoramento financiada pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/117128/2016)
Personal URL:
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=9747598328292698
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Celia_Lopes2
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/C%C3%A9liaLopes
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Phone number:
Email: c.y.henderson@uc.pt
Research interests:
My research interests focus on occupational disease and injury in past populations, predominantly in terms of their identification, but also their impact on the individual and the societies in which they lived.
This research focus stems from my studies of entheseal changes, widely used to study occupation in past societies. I continue to work on recording methods and the interpretation of data for these. I am also the leader of the working group on methodology set up after the Workshop on MSM, Coimbra 2009.
Ongoing Projects:
2012 – now. Postdoctoral research funding: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) SFRH/BPD/82559/2011. Title. Identifying occupation: a test using identified skeletal collections.
March 2013 – October 2013. Wenner-Gren Workshop Grant CONF-632. Grant to organise a workshop in Coimbra in July 2013 for the working groups on entheseal changes. Investigators: Dr S. Villotte, Dr C. Henderson, Dr F. Alves Cardoso and Dr G Perreard-Lopreno. Title. “Entheseal changes and reconstruction of human behavior: towards standardization”. Budget $11 397.January 2013 – October 2013. Wolfson Research Institute Small Grant. Exploratory grant for 9 months with start date January 2013. Principal Investigator. Dr G. King and co-investigators Dr
C Henderson and Dr R Gowland. Title. “The ecology of disease: using ELISA to test for seronegative spondyloarthropathies and their triggers in an archaeological context.” Budget £1000.
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Charlotte_Henderson
Academia: www.coimbra.academia.edu/CharlotteHenderson
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=6204914931789926
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS)
Department of Life Sciences
Email: fcurate@uc.pt
Personal URL:
DeGois: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=7872612291835339
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/FranciscoCurate
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Universidade de Coimbra
Email: sofiawas@antrop.uc.pt
Phone number: + 351 239 240 717
Research interests:
The main research interest focuses on the study of populations of the past, paleopathology, dental anthropology, the development and testing methodologies of sexual diagnosis, estimation of height and age-at- death.
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Institutional Address:
E-mail: tmf@uevora.pt
Research interests:
Human Paleopathology; human past populations
Paleopatologia Humana; Populações Humanas do Passado
Personal URL:
Researchers (Non PhD)
Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email: manu_alvaro16@hotmail.com
Research interests:
Physical Anthropology; Osteology; Bioarchaeology; Forensic Anthropology; Skeletal Biology; Paleopathology; Paleoanthropology; Forensic Archaeology; Human Anatomy; Forensics; Bone Biology; Skeletal Development; Anthropology; Skeleton; Osteoarchaeology
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
CIAS – Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email: anaisabelrufino@gmail.com
Research interests:
Dental Anthropology
Paleopathology
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: bruno.miguel.silva.magalhaes@gmail.com
Phone number:
Research interests:
Paleopathology; Funerary Anthropology; Archeology; Human Evolution.
Ongoing Projects:
“Nasal and sinonasal diseases and conditions of the human skull in identified Portuguese osteological collections”. Fellowship reference SFRH/BD/102980/2014, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).
Personal URL:
https://coimbra.academia.edu/BrunoMagalh%C3%A3es
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
CIAS – Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email:
Research interests:
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carina_Marques/info
Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/CarinaMarques2
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1539318097523970
Research group: Past cultures and populations 
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email:
Research interests:
- Osteology
- Prehistory
- Bioarchaeology
- Physical Anthropology
- Skeletal Biology
- Paleopathology
- Paleoanthropology
- Anthropology
- Biological Anthropology
- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Taphonomy
- Dental Anthropology
- Isotopes
- Stable Isotope Analysis
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
CIAS – Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email: mjoao.neves@dryas.pt; maria.neves@ci.uc.pt
Research interests:
My main interest is focused on the study of past funerary practices throughout an archaeothanatological approach. I have also a special interest in excavation and digital recording (using ArcGIS, digital planning and 3D documentation) of funerary/mortuary contexts.
Ongoing Projects:
Currently I’m finishing my Doctoral Thesis based on an anthropological and archaeological approach of three collective Late Neolithic tombs from southern Portugal. This approach is based on Archaeothanatological principles and GIS tools use.
I participate also in the project “Caçadores-Recolectores e Sociedades Agro-Pastoris: territórios e paisagens culturais no Vale do Sado, na primeira metade do Holocénico – SADO-MESO II”.
DGPC project. Coord. Pablo Arias Cabal (Univerdidad de Cantabria) and Mariana Diniz; (Universidade de Lisboa).
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS)
Department of Life Sciences
Email: sofiatereso@gmail.com
Ongoing Projects:
“Da capital dos Zoelas a Brigantia”. Projeto financiado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
“Intervención Arqueolóxica, Documentación Fotogramétrica e Dinamización Cultural da necrópole de Medeiros (Monterrei, Ourense; Xuño, 2016)
Personal URL:
Collaborators
Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email:
Research interests:
Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Email:
Research interests:
Physical Anthropology; Osteology; Paleopathology; Bioarchaeology; Excavation; Bone biology; Osteoarchaeology; Skeleton; Isotope analysis; Skeletal Biology; Evolution; Forensic Anthropology
Academia: https://kent.academia.edu/AnaCurto
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Curto/info
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1749353569657031
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Email: asbr73@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Anthropological databases and preservation of anthropological field reports and information
- Terminology in Bioarchaeology
- Mortuary practices of Past Populations
- Paleobiology
Personal URL:
Avenida Perimetral, 1901
Terra Firme
66077830 – Belém, PA – Brasil
- Prehistory
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Bioarchaeology
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Paleoanthropology
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Osteology
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Dental Anthropology
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Mummies
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Anthropology
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Osteoarchaeology
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Excavation
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Neolithic Archaeology
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Paleobiology
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Archaeology
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Age Determination by Teeth
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Paleopathology
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Non-dietary use of teeth
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industry on human bones
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Physical Anthropology
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Taphonomy
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Burial
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Cemeteries
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Skeletal Development
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Cremation
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Sexual Dimorphism
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Paleodontology
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Age Determination by Skeleton
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Chalcolithic
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Funerary Archaeology
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Protection Of Cultural Heritage
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Monasteries
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paleodemography
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Funeral Rites
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Iron Age
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Rock Art
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Human Evolution
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Cultural History
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anatomical landmarks
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Human Biology
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Facial Bones
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Mandible
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Maxilla
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Strontium Isotopes
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Bronze Age
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Early Bronze Age
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Skeletal sexual diagnosis
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Dental Pathology
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Dental Morphology
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Chalcolithic populations
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Forensic Odontology (Forensic Dentistry)
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Ceremonial Behaviour
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Discrete dental Traits
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Heritage
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Culture
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Forensic Archaeology
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Forensic Anthropology
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Chronology
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Department of Biology
Paleobiology, Human Biology, Evolutionary Biology
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Identified-Skeletal-Collection-of-Evora-Portugal
Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
UCD School of Archaeology
Newman Building, University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Email: daniel.fernandes@ucdconnect.ie
Research interests:
Applying new and innovative technologies to study the past is my broadest professional interest. Specifically speaking, I focus on the genomics of prehistoric human populations by directly accessing ancient DNA of Mesolithic and Neolithic individuals. The main questions I research about are migrations and trait selection, with an interest in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean islands, during the Neolithic expansions into Europe. I also have some interest in the Bronze and Iron age periods. Methodological experimentation and protocol optimizations for ancient DNA is also a topic that I work on.
Personal URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Fernandes9
http://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/research/phd/daniel_fernandes/
Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS)
Department of Life Sciences
Email:
Research interests:
Personal URL:
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/DanielFidalgo
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Fidalgo/info
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Department of Prehistory and Archaeology,
C/ Doña María de Padilla, s/n,
41004, Seville (Spain)
Email: garciarivero@us.es
Research interests:
Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural evolution, Prehistory, Systematics
Personal URL:
http://personal.us.es/
http://us.academia.edu/
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Institutional Addresses:
1) Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
2) Laboratório de Arqueociências, DGPC and LARC/CIBIO/InBIO
Email: davidmiguelgoncalves@gmail.com
Phone number: +351 213626328 (LARC)
Research interests:
I have a special interest in Forensic Anthropology, Human Osteology, Bioanthropological Methods and Funerary Anthropology with a special focus on ancient cremations and burned bones. I am currently coordinating the HOT Project. The main objectives are to improve our understanding of heat-induced changes to bone and teeth and to improve analytical methods that are specific to burned skeletal remains.
Ongoing Projects:
-Compilation of the first worldwide collection of experimentally semi-burned human skeletons. (Postdoc grant – SFRH / BPD / 84268 / 2012) – 54,030.00€ (FCT).[PI]
-HOT Project ResearcH PrOject of the CEI/XXI Burned SkeleTons
PI: David Gonçalves (CIAS/InBIO)
Other members: check http://www.hotresearch.wix.com/main
State: ongoing
Funded by: not funded
Dates: 2013-∞
Participant Institutions: Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology (U. Coimbra/PT); Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (PT); LARC/Cibio/InBio (PT); University of Teesside (UK); University of Sassari (IT); University of Cambridge (UK); Unidade de I&D Química-Física Molecular (U. Coimbra/PT); University of Leicester (UK)
-IRonBONE – Returning ‘metrics’ to osteometrics in burned human skeletal remains: estimating heat-induced dimensional change through spectroscopy
PI: David Gonçalves (CIAS/InBIO)
Other members: Luís Batista de Carvalho; Maria Paula Marques; Stewart Parker; Maria Teresa Ferreira; Angela Gonçalves.
Proponent Institution: University of Coimbra
Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PTDC/IVC-ANT/1201/2014) – 54,514.00€*
Dates: 2015-2017
Participant Institutions: ISIS Facility – CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; Research Centre for Anthropology and Health; University of Cambridge; Unidade de I&D Química-Física
Molecular (UC)
-ESTELA Project: systematization of the archaeological data associated to the South-Western script (Iron Age, South of Portugal)
PI: P. Barros (IGESPAR, IP); S. Melro (IGESPAR, IP)
Other members: Susana Estrela
State: ongoing
Funded by: Algarve Archaeological Association – 1,200.00€ (ongoing)
Dates: 2010-2018
Closed Projects:
– The peasant societies of the 1st millenium BC in Central Alentejo.[collaborator]
– The Algar do Bom Santo and the Neolithic societies of the Portuguese Estremadura
(6th-4th millenia BC). PTDC/HIS-ARQ/098633/2008 – 105,000.00€ (FCT).[collaborator]
Personal URL:
http://hotresearch.wix.com/main
https://coimbra.academia.edu/DGon%C3%A7alves
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Goncalves
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=5597260311810934
Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Research Team Ciencias del Pasado y Patrimonio: Paleobiología y arqueología.
Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico.
Research interests:
I work in Archaezoology of Holocene archaeological sites. I am interested in the relationship between human and environment along the time. I also work in archaeometry analyzing ancient pollution throught the bioaccumulation of heavy metals in bones and in biostratinomy (experimental archaeology) to obtain current criteria to understand fossil assemblages.
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
Phone number: +351 239 240 711
Fax: +351 239 240 701
Email: cunhae@ci.uc.pt
Research interests:
Forensic Anthropology; Human Evolution
Personal URL:
Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS)
Department of Life Sciences
Email:
Research interests:
- Cremation; Roman Funerary Practices; Bioarchaeology, Biological Anthropology, Archaeology; Studying funerary rituals about inhumation and cremation; Death and Burial (Archaeology); Paleopathology; Roman Lusitania; Anthropology; Roman Necropolis; Roman burial practices
Personal URL:
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/FilipaSilva
Research group: Past cultures and populations 
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email: ines.olsantos@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Forensic Archaeology
Personal URL:
Research group: Past cultures and populations 
Institutional Address:
Área de Antropología Física.
Departamento de Biodiversidad y Gestión Ambiental, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales.
Universidad de León.
Campus de Vegazana s/n, E-24071 León, Spain
Email: lgonzg08@estudiantes.unileon.es
Research interests:
- Dental Anthropology
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida,
Universidade de Coimbra, 3000-056 Coimbra
Email: liliana.carvalho@student.uc.pt;
Research interests:
– Dental Anthropology
– Peleopathology
– Gender studies
– Alimentation studies
– Medieval studies
– Pre and proto-historic archaeology and anthropology
Personal URL:
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/LilianaMatiasCarvalho
Research Group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Research Interests: Human Biology; Past Populations; Pre and Protohistory; Isotopic analysis
Research group: Pa
st Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública.
Rua Leopoldo Bulhões 1480, DENSP Bonsucesso
21041210 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brasil
Email: lucianasianto@gmail.com
Research interests:
Conducts research in the areas of Parasitology and Ecology, on the following topics: Paleoparasitology, Paleoepidemiology, Paleoecology, Paleopathology, parasitism and host-parasite-environment relationships, origin and evolution of parasitic infections.
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luciana_Sianto
Research group: Past cultures and populations 
Institutional Address:
Nia – Era Arqueologia S.A
Email:
Research interests:
- Prehistory
- Bioarchaeology
- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Excavation
- Funerary Archaeology
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Biological Anthropology
- Neolithic Archaeology
- Physical Anthropology
- Neoltihic Archaeology
- Stratigraphy
- Copper Age
- Taphonomy
- Osteology
Personal URL:
Luís Miguel Marado is a Portuguese bioarchaeologist who specializes in biological anthropology. He graduated in Archaeology in 2007 (University of Minho, Portugal). His further training focused in biological anthropology, since he obtained an MSc in Human Biology and Evolution (2010) and a PhD in Anthropology (2015) from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He collaborates in several research projects related to biological anthropology and archaeology.
Institutional Adress: Unidade de Arqueologia – Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal & Lab2PT
Research interests: Culture; Excavation; Prehistory Archaeology; Archaeology; Human Biology; Anthropology
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Personal Email: ampproa@gmail.com
Research interests:
My research theme is the evolution of phenotypic variation, particularly shape (using morphometrics), the relationship between form and function, and the computer modelling of phenotypic evolution.
O meu tema de investigação é a evolução da variação fenotípica, sobretudo da forma (usando a morfometria), das relações entre a forma e a função, e a modelação computacional da evolução fenotípica.
Mon thème de recherche est l'évolution de la variation phénotypique, surtout de la forme (avec de la morphometrie), des liens entre la forme et la fonction, et la modéllisation de l’évolution phénotypique.
Personal URL:
https://inra.academia.edu/MiguelPr%C3%B4a
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel_Proa
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Email: rosa.cristina.ramos@gmail.com
Research interests:
Radiology in anthropology
paleopathology and radiology
Institutional Address: Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología
Research interests: Archaeology; Archaeometry; Ancient trade; Ceramic analysis
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: CRIA – Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia,
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Edifício ID, Av. Berna, 26, sala 3.09, 1069-061 Lisboa, Portugal
Research interests:
Biological anthropology; Paleopathology and Paleohistopathology; Human evolution; Bone tissue; Infectious conditions; Trauma; Science outreach
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas
Rua Almerindo Lessa, 1300-663 Lisboa, Portugal
Phone number: +351213600452
Email: msgarcia@iscsp.ulisboa.pt
Research interests:
Research interests include stress indicators and paleopathology of medieval and early modern Portuguese populations.
Ongoing Projects:
Urbanization and health in the transition between medieval and modern ages in Portugal: An assessment of indicators of morbidity and mortality of skeletal remains from different Portuguese cemeteries. [Non-financed project submitted to CAPP].
Personal URL:
https://lisboa.academia.edu/SusanaGarcia
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55611770500
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: 
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia, Universidade Federal do Pará – Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
Cidade Universitária Prof. José da Silveira Netto, Av. Augusto Correa, no 1
CEP 66075-110 Belém – Pará (Brasil)
Email: tiagotome@gmail.com
Research interests:
Funerary practices of past societies
Bioarchaeology
Computer applications in Archaeology and Bioanthropology
Ongoing Projects:
“Bioarqueologia Amazônica – Construção de uma abordagem integrada em contextos funerários pré-coloniais”
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tiago_Tome
Academia: https://ppga-ufpa.academia.edu/TiagoTomé
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: vcampanacho@gmail.com
Research interests:
I received my Bachelors Degree in Anthropology, from Faculty of Social and Humanities Sciences, New University of Lisbon in 2008, and my Masters degree in Evolution and Human Biology, from the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra in 2010. My Masters dissertation consisted in determining if occupation and physical activity influenced the bone degeneration rate at the pubic symphysis and iliac auricular surface in 19th and 20th centuries male Portuguese of known age. I received my PhD from the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield (U.K.) in 2016. My PhD research consisted in determining if body size influenced the bone degeneration rate at the pelvic joints.
I have a keen interest at the field of age at death estimation, especially determining which factors influence bone degeneration in adults, in order to understand bone metamorphosis and how that may influence age at death estimation by skeletal remains. I also have been involved on the study of age estimation of immature individuals; cremated remains’ analysis; and the establishment of sex diagnosis methods. Currently, I am also involved in Paleopatological and epidemiological studies of past populations; and on the investigation of secular trends on femoral sexual dimorphism in Portuguese individuals since the 19th century.
Personal URL:
Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email: vitoria.duarte.ltn@gmail.com
Research interests:
Advanced formation on human evolution and skeletal biology. In particular: 1) natural history of man 2) man as a Primate 3) human adaptative capacity 4) human paleontology changes 5) brain evolution 6) interdisciplinary view of human evolution 7) interpretation of skeletal remains from archaeological contexts 8) human genetics 9) human ethology and ecology.
Personal URL:
Past Cultures and Populations is a new research group, created in January 2011, which resulted from the fusion of the groups: Anthropology of Past Populations and Studies in Material Culture.