Virtual Anthropology of Prehistoric Portugal (Duration: 2020-2022)

by diogo.santos | Feb 17, 2020 | Projects

Duration: 2020-2022 Abstract: The primary goal of the VAPP Project is to document and interpret patterns of external and internal dental morphological variation among prehistoric humans spanning the Upper Paleolithic to Bronze Age of Portugal. A biocultural...

Mobility, Subsistence Patterns and Kinship from the Late Neolithic until the Iron Age in Southwest Iberia (Duration: 2020-2021)

by diogo.santos | Jan 17, 2020 | Projects

Duration: 2020-2021 Abstract: O objectivo deste projeto é abordar as mudanças culturais ocorridas entre o Neolítico final e a Idade do Ferro (4º e 1º milénios a.n.e.) na região do Sudoeste da Península Ibérica recorrendo à análise da mobilidade, dieta e...

New dimensions in forensic profiling: imaging burned human bones at IMAT (Duration: 2020)

by CIAS Gestão | Jan 16, 2020 | Projects

Duration: 2020 Abstract: Neutron imaging at IMAT will be applied to the study of burned human skeletal remains, for assessing heat-induced changes associated to alterations in bone ́s microcrystallinity. This work follows successful experiments on MAPS, TOSCA and GEM...

Shining the beam on bones: characterisation of burned and fossilised skeletal remains in MAPS (Duration: 2020)

by CIAS Gestão | Jan 15, 2020 | Projects

Duration: 2020 Abstract: Neutron spectroscopy is applied to study bones exposed to anaerobic burning. The results will complement previous data on skeletal remains burned in an aerobic setting, through INS, FTIR and Raman, and neutron diffraction, with a view to...

Bioarqueologia como ferramenta de compreensão da adaptação humana e história populacional no Nordeste Brasileiro (Duration: 2019-2022)

by diogo.santos | Apr 17, 2019 | Projects

Duration: 2019-2022 Abstract: Apresenta-se aqui um projeto de pesquisa em Bioarqueologia, eminentemente interdisciplinar a ser implementado pela proponente na região foco do interesse de pesquisa da Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI): a Região Nordeste do Brasil....

Análise paleobiológica dos restos humanos recuperados do Sítio LagoaCercada, Colônia do Gurgueia, Piauí (Duration: 2019-2022)

by diogo.santos | Mar 17, 2019 | Projects

Duration: 2019-2022 Abstract: Os materiais biológicos que serão intervencionados no Laboratório de Arqueologia e Estudos de Tecnologia (LATEC) da Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI) consistem em remanescentes humanos e itens de cultura material que compunham...