Archaeological data and historical research suggest that the Medieval Islamic Period (711-1249 A.D.) in Iberia was associated with conditions more favourable for child growth than the post-Islamic Christian Period (1249-1650 A.D.). This is due to agricultural prosperity, greater medical knowledge, and better hygienic practices of the former. As child growth is a sensitive indicator of environmental insults, it ...
Num mundo globalizado, em que se vive ao ritmo da (des)informação, a comunicação em arqueologia torna-se cada vez mais relevante para a divulgação científica dirigida ao público não especializado. No caso do grupo de estudo CIGA, que tem por objetivo estudar cerâmica islâmica, esta questão reveste-se de especial importância. Entre a comunicação científica e a divulgação para o público em geral, faz-se o balanço...
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Os últimos anos foram decisivos nos estudos sobre a cerâmica islâmica em Portugal, não apenas pelo volume de materiais descobertos como pela quantidade de publicações disponíveis. Embora as lacunas ainda sejam significativas, em especial no que diz respeito aos períodos mais recuados, o tema adquiriu uma grande abrangência territorial, com um considerável número de sítios a permitir um enquadramento cronológico...
This paper intends to advance with a first analysis to the logics of continuity between the Islamic period and the moments after the Christian conquest, detectable in the ceramics produced in several cities and regions of nowadays Portuguese territory. Although the preliminary nature of this approach, an interpretation of confirmed regional differences is attempted, based on factors such as latitude, temporal s...
This paper is aimed to clarify the beginnings of the glaze technology in the far west Islamic world, the garb al-Andalus. The scarcity of glazed ceramics for the early Islamic period suggests that they were not local productions, but imports. Five glazed ceramics found in the present-day south of Portugal have been analysed in order to determine their provenances
Since its inception in 2008, the Islamic Ceramics from Gharb al-Andalus Study Group (CIGA) has been particularly concerned with the terminology employed to designate ceramic forms in academic literature, in particular to create consensus within the scientific community. Given the lack of standardization, a thesaurus is proposed here. A separate problem is to determine which terms to adopt in other languages, a ...
Since pottery became an object of everyday with a utilitarian use, the kitchen containers have been present in the archaeological record, and it is those of culinary use, especially the pans, which appear in greater percentage. That is why this type of kitchen utensils has been chosen by the Garb al-Andalus Islamic Ceramics Research Group (CIGA) for this communication. Although this is a very common and, appare...
This paper is aimed to clarify the beginnings of the glaze technology in the far west Islamic world, the garb al-Andalus. The scarcity of glazed ceramics for the early Islamic period suggests that they were not local productions, but imports. Five glazed ceramics found in the present-day south of Portugal have been analysed in order to determine their provenances.