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Women Archaeologists. A Long Fight Against Invisibility: Dorothy Garrod, Gertru...
Melo, Ana Ávila deGender Studies in Archaeology and other scientific domains have stressed, over the last three decades, that Women, as much as men, have also developed an important role in all scientific subjects, but the awareness of this fact is far from having the same impact and recognition as the achievements of their male colleagues. This article wants to emphasize the important work of two Women Archaeologists from the U...
Contribution to the metallic artefactual 'corpus' of Late Bronze Age in portugu...
Melo, Ana Ávila de; Cardoso, João LuísIn this article the authors present for the first time two types of nails with long stems from two Late Bronze Age sites in Estremadura, western Portugal. More recently another nail with long stem and a gold conic head was found in a site in southern Portugal of the same age. The rarity of this type of artifacts justified its characterization, which has now been realized.
Contributo para o corpus artefactual metálico do Bronze Final em território por...
Melo, Ana Ávila de; Cardoso, João LuísIn this article the authors present for the first time two types of nails with long stems from two Late Bronze Age sites in Estremadura, western Portugal. More recently another nail with long stem and a gold conic head was found in a site in southern Portugal of the same age. The rarity of this type of artifacts justified its characterization, which has now been realized.
Pins from the Bronze Age and the transition to the Iron Age in Portuguese terri...
Melo, Ana Ávila de; Vilaça, Raquel; Cardoso, João LuísBronze Age pins are rare in the Portuguese territory. Most of these artefacts were recovered during the 19th and early 20th century and the majority were find in settlements without any known archaeological context, or were random surface finds in the vicinity of archaeological sites. In the two last decades of the 20th century two Bronze Age pins (Alegrios, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal and Tapada da Ajuda, Lisbon, ...
Alfinetes da Idade do Bronze e da transição para a Idade do Ferro no território...
Melo, Ana Ávila de; Vilaça, Raquel; Cardoso, João LuísBronze Age pins are rare in the Portuguese territory. Most of these artefacts were recovered during the 19th and early 20th century and the majority were find in settlements without any known archaeological context, or were random surface finds in the vicinity of archaeological sites. In the two last decades of the 20th century two Bronze Age pins (Alegrios, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal and Tapada da Ajuda, Lisbon, ...
A new approach of the recovered artefacts during Leite de Vasconcelos archaeolo...
Melo, Ana Ávila de; Pimenta, JoãoIn this article the authors present a set of several Iron Age artifacts, mostly unpublished, from Pragança settlement. Since the late nineteenth century, this collection has been part of the National Archaeological Museum and the artefacts were recovered during archaeological excavations conducted by the founder of the National Archaeological Museum, José Leite de Vasconcelos in this archaeological site. This s...
Uma nova leitura do espólio das escavações de Leite de Vasconcelos no "Castro" ...
Melo, Ana Ávila de; Pimenta, JoãoIn this article the authors present a set of several Iron Age artifacts, mostly unpublished, from Pragança settlement. Since the late nineteenth century, this collection has been part of the National Archaeological Museum and the artefacts were recovered during archaeological excavations conducted by the founder of the National Archaeological Museum, José Leite de Vasconcelos in this archaeological site.This si...
An englishwoman in the Alentejo Edith Guest and the study of megalithism in Por...
Melo, Ana Ávila de; Cardoso, João LuísIn 1934 English archaeologist Edith Guest (1873–1942) visited the Alentejo region in south-central Portugal. Though not of the first rank of famous archaeologists, Guest made a contribution to archaeology in the first half of the twentieth century, assisting such luminaries as Margaret Murray (1863–1963) and Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888–1985) in their excavations in the Mediterranean. But why did Guest visit t...
Inside the Sierra: the case study of Late Bronze Age Sword of Venda das Raparig...
Bettencourt, Ana M. S.; Castro, Fernando; Melo, Ana Ávila de; Torres, Vítor; Sampaio, Hugo Teotónio Pinho Aluai GonçalvesThe features of this sword locates it into the Late Bronze Age and, once again, demonstrates the creaPve ability of bronzists of this period in Iberia. Although we do not know if the piece was associated with other artefacts or human remains, its deposiPonal character within a cavity, isolated from housing contexts, is undoubted. It is a bronze binary alloy sword with interesPng features, namely: (1) higher % o...
Diz-me o que comes... Alimentação antes e depois da cidade
Senna-Martinez, João Carlos; Martins, Ana Cristina; Melo, Ana Ávila de; Caessa, Ana; Cameira, IsabelCom Lisboa transformada no “maior sítio arqueológico” do país, seja pelo número de intervenções nela efectuadas nos últimos anos, pela dimensão das mesmas, ou pelos resultados conseguidos e potencial informativo revelado, importa trazer as realidades históricas e patrimoniais assim obtidas ao conhecimento de um público alargado. É assim que, em boa hora, o protocolo assinado entre a Autarquia e a Sociedade de G...