This paper outlines the results of strontium isotopic analyses from cattle recovered at the Chalcolithic fortified settlement sites of Castro do Zambujal and Leceia (Estremadura, Portugal). The Portuguese Chalcolithic (c. 3000/2900–1900 BC) was a pivotal time of social and economic change with evidence of increasing social complexity resulting in the formation of hierarchical settlements. With these changes cam...
This paper outlines the results of strontium isotopic analyses from cattle recovered at the Chalcolithic fortified settlement sites of Castro do Zambujal and Leceia (Estremadura, Portugal). The Portuguese Chalcolithic (c. 3000/2900–1900 BC) was a pivotal time of social and economic change with evidence of increasing social complexity resulting in the formation of hierarchical settlements. With these changes cam...
Agriculture first reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in different geographic areas of Iberia. In our study, we focus on the maternal genetic makeup of the Neolithic (~ 5500-3000 BCE), Chalcolithic (~ 3000-2200 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (~ 2200-1500 BCE). We report ancient mitochondrial DNA results of 213 indi...
Agriculture first reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in different geographic areas of Iberia. In our study, we focus on the maternal genetic makeup of the Neolithic (~ 5500-3000 BCE), Chalcolithic (~ 3000-2200 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (~ 2200-1500 BCE). We report ancient mitochondrial DNA results of 213 indi...
Agriculture frst reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in diferent geographic areas of Iberia. In our study, we focus on the maternal genetic makeup of the Neolithic (~ 5500–3000 BCE), Chalcolithic (~ 3000–2200 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (~ 2200–1500 BCE). We report ancient mitochondrial DNA results of 213 indivi...
O presente artigo apresenta os resultados preliminares do projeto de inventário, conservação, digitalização e divulgação do acervo epistolar do Arquivo Leisner, subsidiado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2012–2013). Georg Leisner (1870–1957) e Vera Leisner (1885–1972) constituem o objeto central deste arquivo, em estreita ligação com um número alargado de instituições e arqueológos portugueses e estrangeiros...
ln this paper, human skeletal remains from two prominent settlement sites in the Estremadura region of Portugal (Leceia and Zambujal) were examined in order to investigate how settlement burials may relate to individual identity, and/or temporal and spatial aspects of community life. Our findings have been that, at both Zambujal and Leceia, the contexts in which the human remains are recovered are diverse and c...
O sítio foi descoberto no ano de 1932 por L. de Freitas Sampaio Trindade. Este procedeu à primeira escavação de sondagem em 1944, a qual levou a que o sítio fosse declarado monumento nacional em 1946. No entanto, foi preciso esperar até 1959-61 para que L. Trindade, acompanhado pelo então director do Museu de Torres Vedras, o médico A. Ricardo Belo desenvolvesse as primeiras grandes escavações. A convite de L. ...