Coordinator: 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
Personal URL:
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=9241316088281773
https://coimbra.academia.edu/vmatos
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vitor_Matos3?
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2620-7352
Researchers

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:
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/F114-E8BE-5FEC
http://www.uc.pt/fctuc/dcv/pessoas/docentes/a_santos/index
http://orcid.org/0000-0001- 6073-1532
http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=13204856100
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pzdUetYAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Luisa_Santos
https://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaLuisaSantos
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
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1912-6581
ResearcherID: E-6281-2015
Scorpus Author ID: 55939389400

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Email: bruno.miguel.silva.magalhaes@gmail.com
Research interests:
Paleopathology; Funerary Anthropology; Archeology; Human Evolution.
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1596-5193
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/D810-E6D9-65E8
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruno_M_Magalhaes2?

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
CIAS – Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: anac@ci.uc.pt
Research interests:
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Excavation
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Diagnosis
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Paleopathology
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Osteology
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Bioarchaeology
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Physical Anthropology
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Skeletal Biology
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Forensic Anthropology
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Epidemiology
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Archaeology
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Pathology
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Dental Caries
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Epidemiological Surveys
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Radiocarbon Dating
Personal URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carina_Marques/info
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/691C-63F3-A4C4

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
ISCSP, Campus Universitário do Alto da Ajuda, Rua Almerindo Lessa, 1300-663 Lisboa
Email: ccasanova2009@gmail.com
Research interests:
My research areas are on primate behaviour, ecology and conservation. I also conduct research on human/non-human interface (animal studies) and multi-species ethnography.
Personal URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catarina_Casanova
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/111E-626B-89DC

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:
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7408-680X
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
Institutional Address: CIAS – Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
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.

- Paleodiets
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Osteology
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Prehistory
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Bioarchaeology
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Paleoanthropology
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Archaeology
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Paleopathology
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Physical Anthropology
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Excavation
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Anthropology
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Forensic Anthropology
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Prehistoric Archaeology
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Skeletal Biology
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Human Evolution
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Forensic Archaeology
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Taphonomy
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Dental Anthropology
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Evolutionary Anthropology
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Odontology
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Archaeological Chemistry

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Email: dany.coutinhonogueira@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Paleoanthropology and Human Evolution
- Modern humans and Neanderthals paleobiology
- Bioarchaeology of hunter-gatherers
- Paleopathology and taphonomy (ante-mortem vs post-mortem bone modifications)
- Paleoimaging (X-ray, CT-scan, μCT scan)
Post-Doc researcher funded by the Fyssen Foundation to study the cranial diversity of Mesolithic individuals from Muge and Sado estuary, using paleoimaging.
Personal URL:
Ciência ID: 7F1F-FFA7-445F
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
Ciência Vitae: https://www.
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/
Publons/Web of Science Researcher ID: L-2199-2019

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Email: filipa.cortesao@gmail.com
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:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1615-3242
https://coimbra.academia.edu/FilipaSilva

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:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0480-209X
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=7872612291835339
https://coimbra.academia.edu/FranciscoCurate

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Laboratory of Prehistory, CIAS – Centro de Investigação em Antropologia
Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidad de Coimbra
Calçada Martim de Freitas, Edifício de São Bento
3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
Email: john.willman@uc.pt
Research interests:
- Paleoanthropology and Paleolithic archaeology
- Neandertal and early modern human paleobiology and functional morphology
- Bioarchaeology of hunter-gatherers and early food producers (e.g., social identities, body modification, dietary reconstruction, paleopathology and health, and burial)
- Dental anthropology
- Internal and external dental morphology
- Biological distance and prehistoric population dynamics
- Dental wear (e.g., dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), dental topography, environmental/scanning electron microscopy, gigapixel-like imaging strategies, non-masticatory behavior/”teeth-as-tools”, experimental approaches)
- Evolutionary perspectives on human biological variation, nutrition, medicine, and dentistry
- Hunter-gatherer socioeconomic variation
Personal URL:

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Adress: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: luismarado@gmail.com
Research interests: Culture; Excavation; Prehistory Archaeology; Archaeology; Human Biology; Anthropology
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.
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-9433
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luis_Miguel_Marado
https://uc-pt.academia.edu/Lu%C3%ADsMiguelMarado/CurriculumVitae

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Universidade de Coimbra
Casa Costa Alemão, Polo II, Rua Dom Francisco de Lemos, 3030-789 Coimbra, Portugal
Email: maria.neves@uc.pt
Research interests:
Currently I’m a Science manager (Health) at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of the University de Coimbra and a researcher of CIAS. My research focuses on Biological Anthropology, mainly on past life conditions of hunter-gatherers/ first agricultural communities. I’m interested in topics related to subsistence, health status and funerary practices in pre-history. My main areas of expertise are Field Archaeology, Archaeothanatology and Paleopathology.
Personal URL:
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/A31C-C704-9546
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-8565

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.
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2913-3037
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/1B14-9DD5-39E2
http://www.uc.pt/fctuc/dcv/pessoas/docentes/s_wasterlain/index
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sofia_Wasterlain?
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=2927829615239474

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Research interests: Humans/Other Animals relation (at its sociological, anthropological and multispecies ethnographical dimensions), namely its anthropocentric features and the way it contributes to the establishment of greener habits and efficient environment conservation programmes.
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2766-0135
https://stir.academia.edu/SusanaCosta

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Laboratório de Antropologia Biológica
Departamento de Biologia, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Évora
E-mail: tmf@uevora.pt
Research interests:
Human Paleopathology; human past populations
Paleopatologia Humana; Populações Humanas do Passado
Personal URL:
Researchers (PhD Students)

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Lab2PT, Universidade do Minho
CIAS, Universidade de Coimbra
Email: alexandrina.amorim@gmail.com
Research interests:
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Ancient DNA; Archaeological Chemistry; Archaeological Theory; Archaeology; Bioarchaeology; Biological Anthropology; Burial; Cemeteries; Evolutionary Anthropology; Forensic Anthropology; Forensic Archaeology; Funeral Rites; Historical Anthropology; Osteology; Palaeolithic; Paleoanthropology; Paleopathology; Prehistoric Archaeology
PhD Project:
O presente projeto pretende estudar a evolução dos espaços e rituais funerários praticados na vila fortificada de Valença desde a sua fundação medieval até ao século XIX, explorando os resultados dos trabalhos arqueológicos aí realizados nos últimos 15 anos.
Pretende-se, por um lado, clarificar a organização espacial das áreas sepulcrais associadas a cada edifício religioso, atendendo às identidades individuais, sociais e religiosas, balizando a cronologia das fases de ocupação. Por outro lado, o estudo paleoantropológico das amostras ósseas exumadas proporcionará dados sobre o modo de vida destas populações, sobre a evolução demográfica e a mobilidade da população. Procurar-se-á, ainda, correlacionar o uso funerário dos espaços com a evolução urbanística da fortificação, no sentido de identificar eventuais condicionalismos e pressões sobre os espaços funerários ao longo dos tempos e a influência nas suas organizações. Pretende-se, assim, recriar toda uma dinâmica urbanística, demográfica, funerária e de vivências de um meio militarizado.
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandrina_Alves/info

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
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:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3721-8313

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address: Núcleo de Pesquisa e Estudos Arqueológicos e Históricos (NUPEAH) da Universidade Federal de Alagoas and Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: danubia.rodrigues2@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Oral paleopathology
- Paleodiets
- Funerary practices
Personal URL:
https://www.escavador.com/sobre/6349504/danubia-valeria-rodrigues-de-lima
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4231688A2

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Email:
fabi_ribeiro95@hotmail.com
Research interests:
Genomics, Ancient DNA, Co-evolution, Population health, Paleopathology, Tuberculosis
Fabiana is currently doing her PhD thesis: “Tuberculosis in Portugal through time: A multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of TB” – Human history has been afflicted by epidemic episodes caused by infectious agents that shaped human diversity. Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of death from an infectious agent worldwide. The introduction of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques and advances in ancient DNA (aDNA) allow us to learn more from past episodes. In this project, skeletons with compatible TB’s lesions dated from the Bronze age to the 19th century, will be analyzed, using aDNA extraction and genomic analysis of ancient Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), comparing them to contemporaneous data. Also, diverse documentary resources will be used to infer the health status, demographic and, cultural aspects of these past populations and past selective pressures. The aim is to study the coevolution of Mtb and humans in Portugal by using past and modern host and pathogen populations, using a multidisciplinary framework to understand current events and even prevent new episodes of TB disease.
Personal URL:

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: Fatty.almeida@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Paleopathology

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address: Universidade Federal de Alagoas – UFAL-Campus do Sertão and Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: flavioaguiarac@gmail.com
Research Interests:
- Funerary practices
- Cultural Anthropology
- Archeology
- Paleodemography
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1053-4693
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4732488Y0#FormacaoAcademicaTitulacao

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde
Email: inesleandro@hotmail.com
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:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4727-3909
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ines_Leandro/info
https://coimbra.academia.edu/In%C3%AAsLeandro

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
CIAS, CFE, QFM
Email: anaoj.rosa@gmail.com
Research interests:
Forensic Anthropology, Human Taphonomy, Burned Bones, Traumatic Lesions in bone, Vibrational Spectroscopy, X-ray Fluorescence
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1556-8390

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
CIAS - Research Centre for Anthropology and Health Department of Life Sciences University of Coimbra
3000-056 Coimbra
Email: liliana.carvalho@student.uc.pt;
Research interests:
- Dental Anthropology
- Paleopathology
- Gender studies
- Alimentation studies
- Medieval studies
- Pre and proto-historic archaeology and anthropology
- Childhood stress and the DOAhD theory
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/
https://coimbra.academia.edu/LilianaMatiasCarvalho

Research Group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde (CIAS),
Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Email: linda_melo@hotmail.com
Research Interests:
- Physical Anthropology
- Bioarchaeology
- Paleopathology
- Dental Anthropology
- Taphonomy
- Funerary Practices
- Archaeology
- Prehistory-Protohistory
- Diet and Mobility
- Stable Isotope Analyses
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8521-6059
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/FF10-7AEB-BB5B
https://independent.academia.edu/LindaMelo
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Linda_Melo2/contributions

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Laboratory of Prehistory, Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
University of Coimbra
Email: nestor.hernandezc.93@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Dental Anthropology
- Biological Anthropology
- Bioarchaeology
Personal URL:
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/
Ciencia Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//871D-F181-D204
Ciência ID: 871D-F181-D204
Orcid: 0000-0002-4293-4560

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS) and Laboratório de Arqueociências (Larc)
Email: raagranja@gmail.com
Research interests:
- paleopathology,
- biological anthropology,
- Pre-history
- Neolithic
- dental anthropology
- funerary practices
- archaeology
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0096-0453
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/pt/A212-C9AC-6489
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raquel_Granja
https://independent.academia.edu/RaquelGranja

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: rafonsodemelo@gmail.com
Research interests:
- paleopathology,
- human skeletal biology,
- x-ray fluorescence,
- biological and forensic anthropology
Personal URL:

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Email: rosa.cristina.ramos@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Radiology in anthropology
- Paleopathology and radiology
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: Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Research interests:
Biological Anthropology;
Paleodiets;
Paleopathology;
Forensic Anthropology
Personal URL:

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Research interests:
- Archaeology
- Anthropological and Forensic Sciences
- Paleopathology
- Physical Anthropology
- Bioarchaeology
- Osteology
- Stable Isotope Analyses
- Funerary practices
Personal URL:

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Mestrado em Evolução e Biologia Humanas
Research interests:
- biological anthropology
- paleopathology
- archeology
Personal URL:

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
UNIARQ-Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa
CIAS-Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde da Universidade de Coimbra
Email: delicadocs@gmail.com
Research interests:
- Funerary Archaeology
- Isotope analysis
- aDNA
- Archaeothanatology
Personal URL:
Academia: https://independent.
Researchgate: https://www.


Coordenadora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Arqueologia
Centro de Ciências da Natureza – Universidade Federal do Piauí
Centro de Antropologia e Saúde, Universidade de Coimbra
- Prehistory; Neolithic Archaeology; Chalcolithic; Chalcolithic populations; Bronze Age
- Bioarchaeology; Paleoanthropology; Osteology; Dental Anthropology; Anthropology; Osteoarchaeology; Archaeology; Paleopathology; Taphonomy; Physical Anthropology
- Mummies; Burial; Cemeteries; Cremation; Ceremonial Behaviour
- Age Determination by Teeth; Non-dietary use of teeth
- Industry on human bones; Skeletal Development; anatomical landmarks
- Heritage; Culture
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5073-1704

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Research interests:
The study of the human past is my broadest professional interest. Specifically, I focus on the genomics of ancient human populations by directly accessing their DNA. The main questions I research about are migrations, population affinities, and trait selection, with an interest in the Neolithic and Bronze population movements in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean islands. Methodological experimentation, protocols development, and optimization of existing ones for ancient DNA is also a topic I work on extensively.
Personal URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Fernandes9
https://at.linkedin.com/in/daniel-fernandes-5a932a44
http://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/research/phd/daniel_fernandes/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7434-6552

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), Department of Life Sciences
Email: danielfidalgo15@gmail.com
Research interests:
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Physical Anthropology
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Palaeolithic
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Paleopathology
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Prehistoric Archaeology
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Archaeology
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Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Experimental Archaeology
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Forensic Archaeology
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Landscape Archaeology
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Archaeological Prospection
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Excavation
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Theoretical Archaeology
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-1686
https://coimbra.academia.edu/DanielFidalgo
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:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6112-3181
http://personal.us.es/
http://us.academia.edu/

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Addresses:
Email: davidmiguelgoncalves@gmail.com
Research interests:
I have a special interest in Human Bioarchaoelogy, Forensic Anthropology and Chemical 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.
Personal URL:
https://cibio.up.pt/people/details/davidgonc
https://coimbra.academia.edu/DGon%C3%A7alves
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Goncalves
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=5597260311810934
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-5631
https://publons.com/researcher/520124/david-goncalves/
Researcher ID: I-8816-2012
CIENCIA ID: 4A15-E556-7CDF

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional address: Department of Life Sciences
Research interests:
- Biological and forensic anthropology;
- Dental anthropology;
- Funerary anthropology;
- Paleopathology;
- History of diseases
Personal URL:

Research Group: Past Cultures and Populations

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Research Team Ciencias del Pasado y Patrimonio: Paleobiología y arqueología.
Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico.
Email: garciav.esteban@gmail.com
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:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Esteban_Garcia_Vinas

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology
Centre for Functional Ecology – CFE • Department of Life Sciences • University of Coimbra
Phone number: +351 239 240 711
Fax: +351 239 240 701
Email: cunhae@ci.uc.pt
Research interests:
- Forensic Anthropology;
- Human Evolution
Personal URL:
http://lfa.uc.pt/member/eugenia-cunha

Research Group: Past Cultures and Populations

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Município de Penela – Museu da Villa Romana do Rabaçal
Research Interests:
- Populações e culturas do passado

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Universidade Lusófona, Escola de Psicologia e Ciências da Vida,
Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa
Research interests:
- behavioural ecology of primates
- conservation
- evolutionary biology
Currently working on:
the ecology of primates and other large mammals in the Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria
Personal URL:
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/BC13-6451-C949
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Goncalo_Jesus2/publications?sorting=recentlyAdded&editMode=1
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6469-1520

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
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Biological Anthropology
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Forensic Anthropology
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Physical Anthropology
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Osteology
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Skeletal Biology
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Age Determination by Skeleton
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Forensics
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Investigation
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Paleopathology
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Paleoanthropology
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Bioarchaeology
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Human Evolution
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Dental Anthropology
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Excavation
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6732-4347

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Organisms and Environment Division, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
CIBIO-InBIO, University of Porto, Portugal
CIAS, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Research interests:
- Primatology,
- Ethnobiology,
- Conservation Biology,
- Conservation Genetics and Genomics
Personal URL:
Ciência Vitae: https://www.
Research Gate: https://www.

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
- Biological Anthropology,
- Funerary Anthropology,
- Paleopathology,
- Taphonomy

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:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-9124
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura_Gonzalez-Garrido
unileon.academia.edu/

Research group: Past 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.

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra
Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB), University of the Algarve
Research interests:
- Study of populations of the past
- Bio-Archaeology
- Funerary practices and architectures amongst the societies of LatePrehistoric Iberia
Personal URL:

Post-Doc Researcher
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Instituto de Arqueología-Mérida (CSIC-Junta de Extremadura). Plaza de España, 15.
06800, Mérida (Badajoz), Spain
Email: Lgpa@iam.csic.es
Research interests:
- Archaeology;
- Cultural Evolution;
- Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics;
- Roman Period;
- Middle Ages.
Personal URL:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6732-5753
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1060416614647552
https://us.academia.edu/LPérez
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luis_Gethsemani_Perez-Aguilar

Research Group: Past Cultures and Populations
Research Interests:
- AncientMedicine
- Roman Surgical Instruments
- Ancient Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Woman Doctors
- History of pharmacological use of drugs, especially minerals
Personal URL
https://uc-pt.academia.edu/MariadoSameiroBarroso/CurriculumVitae

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Email: mferreira@uc.pt
Research interests:
- Forensic Anthropology;
- Taphonomy;
- Trauma;
- Funerary Anthropology
Personal URL:
https://www.uc.pt/fctuc/dcv/pessoas/docentes/t_ferreira
http://lfa.uc.pt/member/maria-teresa-ferreira/
http://cfe.uc.pt/profile/members/1649
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2437-7780
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=SgwjQWgAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Research Group: Past Cultures and Populations

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Muséum des Sciences Naturelles d’Angers, 43 rue Jules Guitton, 49100 Angers, France
Email: ampproa@gmail.com
Research interests:
• Comparative anatomy
• 3D imaging
• Vertebrate evolution
• Museum collections
Currently an Assistant Collections Manager at the Muséum des Sciences Naturelles d’Angers, France, I am a biologist specialising in skeletal anatomy and functional morphology, using imaging technology, 3D modelling and quantitative methods to investigate vertebrate variation and evolution. I have experience of complex data handling, managing volunteers, teaching, supervision, and public outreach.
Personal URL:
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/C918-E150-079D
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-pr%C3%B4a-27729895/?locale=en_US

Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address: Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología
Email: ruth.taylor@hotmail.com
Research interests:
- Archaeology;
- Archaeometry;
- Ancient trade;
- Ceramic analysis
Personal URL:

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
Personal URL:
https://ielt.academia.edu/SandraAssis
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=9704195177851295
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Assishttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Assis

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:

Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Email: tiagotome@gmail.com
Research interests:
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Bioarqueologia
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Análise espacial em Arqueologia
Ongoing Projects:
“Bioarqueologia Amazônica – Construção de uma abordagem integrada em contextos funerários pré-coloniais”
Personal URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tiago_Tome

Research interests:
- Cultural heritage
- Archaeology
- Tourism and leisure

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:
The James Lee Collection
Duration: 2001 – ongoing
The Hospital‐Colony Rovisco Pais: anthropology and history in context
Duration: 2005 – 2008
Applying the Concept of Chaîne Opératoire to Nut-cracking – An Approach Based on Studying Communities of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Bossou and Diecké (Republic of Guinea)
Duration: 2006 – 2007
Osteoporosis and Fragility Fractures in the Portuguese Identified Skeletal Collections
Duration: 2006 – 2010
Farming Communities in the 1st millennium BC in Central Alentejo
Duration: 2006 – ongoing
Diachrony of neoplasia: the contribute of human osteologic remains
Duration: 2007 – 2011
Living the death in Portugal: the scientific potential of anthropological field reports (from 1994 to 2007)
Duration: 2007 – 2011
The last hunter-gatherers in the Tagus Valley ‐ the Muge shell middens
Duration: 2007 – 2011
Chimpanzee Archaeology: Seeking the Evolutionary Origins of Technology
Duration: 2007 – 2012
Tales from the Dead: Funerary Practices in the Late Neolithic Hypogeum of Monte Canelas I (Alcalar, Algarve, Portugal)
Duration: 2008 – 2010
Cremains: the value of quantitative analysis for the bioanthropological research of burned human skeletal remains
Duration: 2008 – 2011
The paleodemographic and paleopathological study of the pre-Columbian human remains from Cambridge Hill (Jamaica)
Duration: 2008 – ongoing
Pounding Tool Working Group Research
Duration: 2008 – ongoing
Requalification of the Leiria Castle
Duration: 2009 – 2011
An Investigation into the Microscopic and Macroscopic Heat-induced Changes in Bone and their Application to the Archaeological Context
Duration: 2010 – 2011
TB or not TB: using histology to diagnose rib lesions in past human populations
Duration: 2010 – 2011
The “slave pit” of Lagos (Portugal): contribution to the understanding of funerary treatment of African slaves in the 15th and 16th centuries
Duration: 2010 – 2012
The last hunter-gatherers of Muge (Portugal): the origins of social complexity
Duration: 2010 – 2012
Algar do Bom Santo: A research project on the Neolithic populations of Portuguese Estremadura (6th-4th millenia BC)
Duration: 2010 – 2013
iLab.Arq: Geoarchaeology methodological research applied to cultural heritage protocols
Duration: 2010 – 2013
The clinical archive of the sanatorium Carlos Vasconcelos Porto: contribution to the history of tuberculosis and its paleopathological diagnosis
Duration: 2010 – 2013
Death management in Recent Prehistory: funerary practices in Perdigões enclosure
Duration: 2010 – 2013
Anthropization of Spaces – Natural resource adaptation and human occupation continuity in the Pre and Proto-History of Estremadura (Portugal)
Duration: 2010 – 2014
Characterization of Dental Morphology in Middle Guadiana River in the Final Neolithic-Early Chalcolithic: Fundaments for Morphological Mapping of Local Populations in Recent Prehistory
Duration: 2010 – 2014
Dental Morphology in a dental sample from 19th / 20th centuries Central Portugal
Duration: 2010 – 2014
Projecto ESTELA: Investigação em Torno da Escrita do Sudoeste
Duration: 2010 – 2014
AgEstimation Project
Duration: 2011 – 2012
Funerary practices in the recent Prehistory of Baixo Alentejo and social economic feedback of heritage promotion program
Duration: 2011 – 2014
Morphometric Analysis of the Proximal Femur in H. sapiens, H. neanderthalensis and H. heidelbergensis: Taxonomic, Eco-morphological and Biomechanical Considerations
Duration: 2011 – 2014
Paleoepidemiology of osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures in Portugal since the Mesolithic: a transdisciplinary study
Duration: 2012 – ongoing
Primate Archaeology: Investigating Chimpanzee Stone Age
Duration: 2012 – 2013
Costal transitions: a comparative approach to the processes of neolithization in Atlantic Europe
Duration: 2012 – 2013
HEROICA: Health and Diet in the Roman Iberia – a Case-study in Archaeometry
Duration: 2012 – 2015
WebGIS.Arch: a Web3 (Wiki, GIS and social-web) Portal on historical and archaeological heritage
Duration: 2012 – 2015
Global History of Health Project (European module)
Duration: 2005 – ongoing
Middle Stone Age archaeology and the origins of modern humans in Southern Mozambique
Duration: 2012
Entheseal Changes and Reconstruction of Human Behavior: Towards Standardization
Duration: 2013
Duration: 2015-2016
Duration: 2015-2017
Duration: 2015–2021
Duration: 2015–2020
Duration: 2016
Duration: 2016-2018
Mobilidade e interacção na Pré-História Recente do sul de Portugal: o papel dos centros de agregação
Duration: 2016-2019
Duration: 2016‐2019
Es.Ter.Tejo – Estratégias de Ocupação do Território no Holocénico no Médio Tejo
Duration: 2016‐2019
Duration: 2016-2020
Heat-induced changes in human bone probed by neutron vibrational spectroscopy
Duration: 2017
Duration: 2017-2020
Widening the frontiers in forensic profiling: probing burned human bones with neutron diffraction
Duration: 2018
The Muge Shellmiddens Project: A new portal to the last hunter-gatherers the Tagus valley, Portugal
Duration: 2018-2021
Duration: 2018-2021
Duration: 2018-2021
Duration: 2019-2020
SAND – Sarilhos Grandes Between Two Worlds
Duration: 2019-2021
Duration: 2019-2022
Duration: 2019-2022
Duration: 2020-2021
Virtual Anthropology of Prehistoric Portugal
Duration: 2020-2022
Phaleron Bioarchaeological Project
Duration: 2015-ongoing
Duration: 2021-2023
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.