The history of death is entangled with the history of changing social values, meaning that a
shift in attitudes to death will be consistent with changes in a society's world view. Late …

For most of human history, funerary burial has been unusual. Archaeology shows a shift in
funerary practices in postglacial hunter-gatherers, in parts of Europe during the Late …

Evidence for the first Neolithic population in central Portugal dates to as early as c. 7600 cal
BP. These first farmers were exogenous groups arriving to the Atlantic coast from the …

We investigated the genetic composition of six Canis remains from western Iberia, directly
radiocarbon dated to 7,903–7,570 years (cal BP). They were identified as dogs via their …

Shell midden formation is largely controlled by anthropogenic processes, resulting from
human exploitation of aquatic resources. This makes shell middens archives of both human …

This paper presents the results of an application of geophysical surveying methods to
Mesolithic sites in Portugal. Magnetic gradiometry maps have been produced at the sites of …

The analysis of plant macroremains from Poças de São Bento, a shell-midden in the Sado
Valley (Portugal), has provided interesting insights into the shell-midden formation …

Domesticated dogs have been present in the Iberian Peninsula long before other
domesticated species, back to the late Palaeolithic period. Their origin is still uncertain, but …

In this paper we present the results of a multidisciplinary study performed in the
Carrasqueira valley, a tributary of the River Sado (SW Portugal), aimed at characterising the …

The aim of this thesis was to create databases of funerary remains dating from the Upper
Palaeolithic to the Early Neolithic from an extensive area of Western Europe (Portugal …