Research group: Past cultures and populations
Institutional Address:
Lab2PT, Universidade do Minho
CIAS, Universidade de Coimbra
Email: alexandrina.amorim@gmail.com
Research interests:
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: Human Biology, Health and Societ
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
E-mail: martaroriz2006@gmail.com
Research interests:
Marta Roriz has a Master’s degree in Medical Anthropology, and is currently a PhD candidate at CIAS, with the project “A genealogy of obesity: From Biopolitics to a Hospital Ethnography”. Her research dwelves on ethnographic methods applied to science and medicine, and the broader theory fields of medical anthropology and STS’s.
Personal URL:
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=7974325643015439
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0399-113X
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:
