Universidade do Porto

Faculty Member, DCTP

Professor

Faculty of Arts

About

Born in Lisbon, January 1948.
Degree in History – Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon – July 1972 – matter of the degree thesis: Lower and Middle Paleolithic pebble tools of the South of Portugal
Lecturer of the University of Luanda (Lubango): 1973 – 1974
Lecturer of the University of Porto: 1974 - 1982
Doctor in Prehistory and Archaeology – Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto – October 1982 - matter of Ph. D dissertation: Megalithic passage graves of Northern Portugal
Auxiliary professor, Associate professor of the University of Porto – Faculty of Arts – 1982-1990
Aggregation in History (Prehistory) – Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto – June 1989 – matter of public lesson: Passage grave necropolis in Atlantic Europe
Professor of Archaeology – Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto – May 1990
Professor of Heritage Sciences and Techniques - Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto – since February 2001





Research interests

Period: Late Prehistory (Neolithic, Copper Age, Bronze Age)
Kind of societies: post-palaeolithic societies without an organization based on the State (processes of social complexification and of construction of social coesion with no formal state apparatus).
Kinds of subjects: organization of space; architecture; “art”(graphic expression, markimng of the landscape); mental representations of the world in connection with social and economic conditions; role of archaeology and heritage in a postmodern world; connection between archaeology and anthropology of non-European, non-state societies.



Teaching

Graduation courses:
History  and Theory of Archaeology
Archaeology  and  Heritage
Post-graduation  courses  or research  coordination  fields:
Preparation  of Ph.D’s in
Late  Prehistoric  Archaeology (Neolithic, Copper  and  Bronze Age architectures);  Heritage  issues and  social  role of Archaeology  in contemporary  society


Other activities

- President  of the  Portuguese  Society  of Anthropology  and  Ethnology (SPAE) (since 1990)
- Founder and President  of ADECAP – Association  for the Improvement  of Copperation  in Iberian  Archaeology  (since 1997)
- Secretary-General  (Portugal) of the 1rst (Porto) and 3rd (Vila Real) Congresses  of Iberian  Archaeology .
- General  editor  of Trabalhos  de  Antropologia  e  Etnologia  (journal of SPAE, published since 1919 – thematic  area since 1997: social sciences)
- Founder and general  editor  of Journal of Iberian  Archaeology  (journal of ADECAP, published  since 1998 – thematic  area:  Iberian archaeology)
- C. 300 titles  published  (papers, books, etc.)
- Co-direction  of archaeological  excavations  since 1970
- Literary production: c. 20 books of poems published

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