Introduction Identified skeletal and skull collections are centrepiece for research in biological anthropology. However, until recently, the same relevance has not been placed on dental cast collections. This perspective evolved, mainly, with the research on population variation and human identification through dental characteristics. While dental collections exist throughout the world, their reports and docume...
Os contextos funerários até ao momento conhecidos nos Perdigões relativos à fase neolítica resumem-se ainda a apenas duas fossas (Fossas 7 e 11), já objecto de várias publicações (Valera 2008; Godinho 2008; Valera, Godinho 2009; Valera et al. 2014, Silva et al. 2015), a que se somam alguns restos humanos desarticulados depositados no interior de fossos (5, 8 e 13c) e fossas (62), e que não se enquadram dentro d...
This study presents for the first time the diet of a Late Antiquity population in southern Portugal (Civitas of Pax Julia), from the Roman villa of Monte da Cegonha (predominantly 7th century CE). Stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr) of human and faunal bone collagen and apatite was conducted in order to understand the influence of Roman subsistence strategies on the way of life of rural inhabi...
This study presents for the first time the diet of a Late Antiquity population in southern Portugal (Civitas of Pax Julia), from the Roman villa of Monte da Cegonha (predominantly 7th century CE). Stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, 87Sr/86Sr) of human and faunal bone collagen and apatite was conducted in order to understand the influence of Roman subsistence strategies on the way of life of rural inhabi...
Tomb 2 belongs to a tholos-type necropolis built in the eastern side of Perdigões enclosure during the Chalcolithic period. The exhaustive analysis of the human remains allowed to obtained various insights about the way this tomb was used during the third millennium BC and data about the individuals found here. In the present study, the samples exhumed from the Atrium and the Chamber of this tomb were considere...