I am a Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Coimbra, currently studying the human remains from Mesolithic Muge. I hold a Ph.D. degree from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University Paris. To date, my research has focused on two chronological and geographical contexts: 1) Southwestern Asia, a region of human population confluences during the Late Pleistocene, and 2) the Iberian Peninsula, the last point of contact between the foraging peoples and migrating waves of food-producing peoples during the Holocene. Coincidentally, the human skeletal remains from these two contexts underwent severe post-mortem alterations (e.g., crushing, compaction, concretion) that have limited previous studies and their conclusions. I am involved in the analysis of several fossils and individuals including the early modern humans from Qafzeh cave (Middle Palaeolithic, Mediterranean Levant) and Dar-es-Soltane II (Middle Palaeolithic, Morocco), the Neanderthal remains from Regourdou (Middle Palaeolithic, France) and of the 1812 soldiers from the Napoleonic Grande Armée, (Kaliningrad, Russia).
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Dany Coutinho Nogueira
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Research Interests |
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Paleoanthropology and Human Evolution |
Bioarchaeology of hunter-gatherers |
Modern humans and Neanderthals paleobiology |
Paleopathology and taphonomy (ante-mortem vs post-mortem bone modifications) |
Paleoimaging (X-ray, CT-scan, μCT scan) |
Teaching |
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Mousterian populations of the Levant (220 000 – 45 000 B.P.), invited seminars gave at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, the University of Bordeaux and the University of Coimbra |
Main Publications |
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Coutinho Nogueira D., Coqueugniot H., Dutour O., Hublin J.-J. 2022. Inner ear modifications in Dar-es-Soltane II H5 (Morocco): a case of Labyrinthitis ossificans, International Journal of Paleopathology, 38, pp. 41-44 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.06.004 |
Coutinho Nogueira, D., Coqueugniot, H., & Tillier, A-m. 2021. Qafzeh 9 Early Modern Human from Southwest Asia: age at death and sex estimation re-assessed. Homo: Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 72, 4, pp. 293 – 305. https://doi.org/10.1127/homo/2021/1513 |
Coutinho Nogueira, D., Coqueugniot, H., Santos, F., & Tillier, A-m. 2021. Qafzeh 25 bony labyrinth and the morphometric variability in the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13, 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01377-2 |
Coutinho Nogueira D., Dutour O., Coqueugniot H, Tillier, A-m. 2019 Qafzeh 9 mandible (ca 90–100 kyrs BP, Israel) revisited: μ-CT and 3D reveal new pathological conditions, International Journal of Paleopathology, Vol 26, pp.104-110 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.06.002 |
Coutinho Nogueira D., Dutailly B., Comte F., Vasil’iev A., Khokhlov A., Shvedchikova T., Berezina N., Buzhilova A., Dutour O., Coqueugniot H., 2019 “Gueule cassée” (facial injuries): a 3D paleotraumatology study and facial approximation of a Napoleonic soldier who died in 1812 at Königsberg during the Russian Campaign. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Vol 29, Issue 2, pp.191-197 https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2728 |
Research Projects |
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Bioarcheology of the Late Mesolithic, the last HUnter-Gatherers of Europe (PI, ERA fellowship, European Commission, 2023-2025) |
The last hunter-gatherers of Portugal. Virtual paleoanthropological study of the populations from Muge (PI, Fyssen Foundation, 2021-2023) |
Tridimensional reconstruction and morphometric analysis of the human fossils from Qafzeh Cave (Middle Palaeolithic, Lower Galilee, Israel), part I and II (PI, Irene Sala Levi CARE archaeological Foundation, 2016-2018) |