In this paper, I explore the relationship between an artifact's biography and the raw material from which it was made. Specifically, I discuss the biographies of groundstone tools from five Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic (3500-2000 BC) sites in lowland Portugal. An analysis of the formal and material characteristics of tools (totalling over 1300) from these sites indicates that the raw material from which a tool was made not only constrained the form and function of that tool, but also determined, to a large extent, whether that tool would be recycled and the context (settlement V5. burial) in which that tool would be ultimately deposited. I suggest that both the material properties and the socio-symbolic associations of different raw mate...
The present dissertation generates a new data corpus which makes it possible to resize and widen the...
This paper presents some preliminary readings about the procurement of raw materials for the product...
Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only it...
This paper has two aims: first, it seeks to bring together the varied and rich series of autochthono...
This study focuses on the economic organization of bifacial flaked stone industries of the Late Neol...
Micro-wear analysis has been applied to one of the characteristic flint tools types (foicinhas) of t...
Upper Paleolithic lithic assemblages have traditionally been considered a paramount example of the h...
[EN] This paper deals with the functionality of the flaked stone assemblages from several Neolithic ...
El análisis funcional ha reconocido rastros de uso en artefactos de sílex (foicinhas)que caracte...
Geological raw materials are an important component of the archaeological record in the Prehistory (...
This work presents the archaeometallurgical study of a group of metallic artefacts found in Moinhos ...
O objetivo do presente trabalho é, através do estudo do material lítico polido do interior de Minas ...
Entre el 10 y 12 de marzo de 2016, se celebró en la Universidad de Algarve (Portugal) el Congreso Ra...
Tese de doutoramento, História (História Regional e Local), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Let...
[EN] The authors of this paper has been investigating for years the Neolithic funerary contexts of t...
The present dissertation generates a new data corpus which makes it possible to resize and widen the...
This paper presents some preliminary readings about the procurement of raw materials for the product...
Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only it...
This paper has two aims: first, it seeks to bring together the varied and rich series of autochthono...
This study focuses on the economic organization of bifacial flaked stone industries of the Late Neol...
Micro-wear analysis has been applied to one of the characteristic flint tools types (foicinhas) of t...
Upper Paleolithic lithic assemblages have traditionally been considered a paramount example of the h...
[EN] This paper deals with the functionality of the flaked stone assemblages from several Neolithic ...
El análisis funcional ha reconocido rastros de uso en artefactos de sílex (foicinhas)que caracte...
Geological raw materials are an important component of the archaeological record in the Prehistory (...
This work presents the archaeometallurgical study of a group of metallic artefacts found in Moinhos ...
O objetivo do presente trabalho é, através do estudo do material lítico polido do interior de Minas ...
Entre el 10 y 12 de marzo de 2016, se celebró en la Universidad de Algarve (Portugal) el Congreso Ra...
Tese de doutoramento, História (História Regional e Local), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Let...
[EN] The authors of this paper has been investigating for years the Neolithic funerary contexts of t...
The present dissertation generates a new data corpus which makes it possible to resize and widen the...
This paper presents some preliminary readings about the procurement of raw materials for the product...
Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only it...