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In 1998, a team from Centro Nacional de Arqueologia Náutica e Subaquática (CNANS) undertook the rescue excavation of Angra D, a probable 16th or 17th century Iberian shipwreck located in the construction area of a dock in Angra Bay (Terceira Island, Azores). The study of the site was never completed. In 2011, a team from CHAM continued the study of Angra D, reassessing the archaeological archive, the ship timbers and the artefacts. This study suggests that Angra D is probably a small merchant...
The Influence of the Slave Trade on Atlantic Shipbuilding (2016)
Although the history and archaeology of slavery has been well researched, relatively few studies have focused on the design, construction, and use of slave ships. The slave trade introduced new social elements and cultural exchange and created networks of global communication which, after the abolition of slavery, grew into complex international trade systems. The study of slave ships allows us to not only better understand the mechanisms behind this social phenomena, but also brings to light a...
Inquiry into the Origins of Modern Human Distributions
Since their discovery over 150 years ago, Neanderthals have captured the imagination of scientists and the general public. Researchers have been trying to understand their life ways and the processes through which they disappeared. Archaeology and the earth sciences are particularly well placed to address this dilemma because both investigate processes that act over deep time. Within this broad context, Dr. Jonathan Haws (University of Louisville) and Dr. Michael Benedetti (University of North...
The "ivory wreck": a probable 18th century British shipwreck in Faial Island (Azores, Portugal) (2013)
The reorganization of the maritime waterfront of Horta, in Faial Island (Azores), began in June 2009, and was preceded by an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study, which resulted in the development of several mitigation measures implemented before and during the construction works. This included the monitoring of the dredging works, but also the survey, excavation and removal of any archaeological materials discovered. This approach allowed us to identify and preserve remains related to...
Maritime Cultural Landscapes of the Slave Trade in Lagos, Portugal (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The LAqua Project - Salvaguarda e divulgação do património cultural subaquático do Concelho de Lagos - aims to locate the underwater archaeological finds that have been reported to the DGPC/CNANS, but that still lack georeferencing. It is also intended to evaluate its characteristics and the...
Material Culture from an early 16th century Portuguese Indiaman wreck site (Oman) (2018)
In early 1502 Vasco da Gama left Lisbon commanding an India Armada. During the voyage, the group of ships stopped in different locations along the West and East African coasts, such as Mozambique, finally sailing to India where they stayed until early 1503. Before departing back to Portugal, some of these ships remained on the Indian Ocean to disrupt maritime trade between India and the Red Sea. Two of those vessels, the Esmeralda and the São Pedro, wrecked off the coast of Oman in 1503. The...
Metal Objects Were Much Desired. A 16th Century Shipwreck Cargo off Esposende (Portugal) (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the winter of 2014 the Belinho beach (Esposende, Portugal) was surprisingly filled with wooden parts belonging to a ship, stone shots and metals objects. Everytime the sea was rough new objects would appear on the beach suggesting that a ship was wrecked close to the shore. The confirmation came in 2017 when the shipwreck site was found. Hundreds of objects have been found...
The naval dockyard at Praça D. Luís I, Lisbon (Portugal): an insight into a structure from the Age of Discovery (2013)
The construction of a car park near the river front of the Tagus River in Lisbon has enabled the spectacular discovery of a 17th century naval dockyard with few known parallels in Western Europe. The archaeological excavation, conducted by an interdisciplinary team of land, nautical and underwater archaeologists, paleobotanists, dendochronologists and geomorphologists, revealed a robust 300 square meter structure of three layers of timber frames, the third being composed of about 70 pieces of...
Oriental Ceramics and Chinese Porcelain from a Portuguese Indiamen – the presumable Nossa Senhora dos Mártires (Tagus River, Portugal) (2013)
During the Ming dynasty the first connections were established between occidental and oriental communities. Through the hands of captains, merchants and missioners, for nearly a century the Portuguese had almost the exclusive trade with Asia, ensuring the Chinese porcelain trade. In general, the rare and exotic goods from the orient, in particular the Chinese porcelains, were a vast area of trade that inspired the artistic sensibility of the Portuguese society; a fashion trend that endured...
Para que serve a Escola? (1st edition: 1992, París) (1995)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
Parque Arqueológico do Vale do Côa: entre os dados da experimentação arqueológica e o público (2011)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
Plan of Lapa do Picareiro (2015)
Site plan based on 1x1 m alphanumeric grid system.
Plastic Adrift: Archaeology, Relations And Multiple Contexts (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For three decades now we have been noticing the presence of plastic in Portuguese beaches, a mixture of things forgotten by seasonal visitors and plastics that are adrift until washed ashore. While most archaeologists would only consider it an archaeological commodity once it is deposited in the beach we aim to go further and...
Ports and port systems in the Modern and Contemporary periods within a comparative study of the Portuguese and British maritime empires. (2013)
Islands and ports, as structural elements, have often been essential to the building of empires, so we aim to understand the different solutions used for the transformation of the occupied island and port landscapes, and how this occupation ordered or helped the definition of expansion models. Using both archaeological interpretation and cartographic and documentary sources, the intent is to show how the construction of structures proceeded, and how the creation of administrative systems worked...
Portuguese ceramics in Plymouth (UK) (2013)
Although Portuguese ceramics are present in many cities across England, Plymouth is an extraordinary case of quantity and quality. Thousands of fragments of red coarsewares and tin glaze wares were identified across the city. One of the most extraordinary aspects is related to the type of these artefacts which are very similar to what Portuguese populations would use in Portugal. This aspect motivated the search for people and ships taking such cargo from Portugal and there is evidence of a...
Portuguese Faience and its worldwide distribution (2013)
The project "Portuguese Faience (PF) across the world (16th to 18th centuries )", sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia aims to study the distribution of PF across the world. Not that well recognized outside Portugal, the PF production started in middle 16th century in Lisbon and in the early 17th century it was already being made in other workshops across the country. The huge development of this ware was in part related to Portuguese commercial intensification, namely in its...
Portuguese Faience in Brazil’s 17th century Capital (2013)
The colonial Brazilian territory, organized and structured following the metropolitan model of society and administration, suffers an economic convulsion after the dynastic union in 1580 that modifies a major part of its social and cultural structure. The Portuguese faience fragments collected in the Praça da Sé, Colégio dos Jesuítas and in the remains of the shipwreck Galeão Santíssimo Sacramento (all in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil), are testimonies of the social and economic matrix...
Portuguese finds in Velha Goa (2013)
As the former capital of the Estado da Índia, the Portuguese influence on Goa is evident throughout the region—in its architecture, cuisine, music, religious practices, etc. In Velha Goa (or Old Goa), perhaps the most striking example of this influence is the well-preserved Catholic churches that dominate the landscape. However, beyond the few excavations in Velha Goa that centered on these churches, there is a limited archaeological understanding of material culture outside of ecclesiastical...
Portuguese fine red coarsewares (2013)
Known outside Portugal as "Merida type red micaceous wares" or "Portuguese Merida-type ware", and believed to have originated in the Western Castilla and latter from Alentejo, called "terra sigillata from Estremoz", "redware", "feldspar inlaid redware", or modelled ceramics, these ceramics originated in southern Portugal. The production presents very diverse but elegant shapes crossing Classic, Islamic and Baroque influences with specific characteristics such as clean red fabrics, plastic...
Portuguese olive jars. Production and distribution (2018)
For many years, archaeologists believed that the type of jar known as an 'olive jar' was exclusively made in Southern Spain. The possibility that Portuguese kilns also produced these jars was not considered, despite these botijas, being frequent references in Portuguese documents, particularly in reference to ships' cargos. Until recently only a few olive jar sherds had been recovered in Portugal and, although we suspected a possible production due to the similarities between some olive jar...
Portuguese settlement in Mumbai region, India: territorial occupation throughout structural remains (16th-18th centuries) (2013)
Most parts of Greater Mumbai belonged to Portugal between 1534 and 1739, except for the island of Bombay, handed over to the British in 1665. The territory of Bassein, the ancient capital of this region, was the first settlement of Estado da Índia to occupy a significant area. The Portuguese enjoyed territorial stability during its first century in Bassein. This favoured the Portuguese annexation of land through the incorporation of pre-existing structures, the application of solutions used in...
Projecto Andakatu: Didáctica da Pré-História attravés da Experimentação (2008)
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Remote sensing and coastal site management of the Underwater Cultural Heritage of Cascais and Oeiras (Portugal): The case of the São Julião da Barra site. (2013)
Portuguese coastal supervision system has used Underwater Cultural Heritage Chart programs for the understanding and management of the coastline from maritime cultural evidence. Within these programs, geophysics tools and techniques are utilized to rebuild submerged archaeological landscapes. With this paper we present the methods and results of this type of partnership regarding the research of the archaeological complex São Julião da Barra, a site under view by the current program of...
Restitución formal y funcional de un horno romano de la alfarería de Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal, Portugal): arqueología experimental, control de condiciones de cocción y análisis del material cerámico (2011)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
Revisiting Ria de Aveiro A (Portugal): a new approach to early modern Atlantic shipbuilding and maritime trade (2013)
In 1992 the remains of an early-modern vessel were found in the Ria de Aveiro (Portugal). This discovery led to the development of an interdisciplinary research project between 1996 and 2005 that allowed the study of the site formation processes, of Atlantic shipbuilding, and the earthenware production in the Aveiro-Ovar region and their commercial circulation. In this paper, we present the last archaeological research about the ship and the new data concerning the maritime trade of the...