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 …
V Aldeias, N Bicho - Geoarchaeology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Shellmound formation processes are greatly influenced by human inputs associated with an intensive exploitation of marine and estuarine resources. The complex stratigraphy of …
Located on the Iberian Mediterranean coast, El Collado is an open-air site where a rescue excavation was conducted over two seasons in 1987 and 1988. The archaeological work …
N Bicho, E Esteves - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coastal prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Iberia were particularly important to understanding Paleolithic human innovation and resilience. This study will focus on Middle …
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 …
The aurochs (Bos primigenius) was an important animal to humans, during prehistory when it was widely hunted, and in some areas also during historical periods. It is generally agreed …
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 …
R Dias, C Detry, N Bicho - The Holocene, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The Pleistocene–Holocene transition c. 11.5 ka cal. BP is associated with dramatic climatic changes. These events led to fundamental shifts in landscape and have, therefore, been …
CD Simões, V Aldeias - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The archaeological visibility of hearths related to shellfish cooking methods is limited, particularly in pre-ceramic shell midden contexts. Important evidence for use of fire is the …