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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 2016-20017 the archeological intervention in Campo das Cebolas, in Lisbon, revealed the remains of 8 Tagus river traditional boats from the 19th century. After the intervention all timbers were maintained in tanks with appropriate conservation environmental conditions. In 2020, during pandemic quarantine a team of four...
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...
The Ribeira Velha of Lisbon and the Requalification of Lisbon Water Front. Archaeological Excavations in a Nautical Context. (2018)
During more than one year (2016-2017) public works at Campo das Cebolas, in downtown Lisbon, have exposed archaeological complexes related with his waterfront. This central node of the city and harbor was essential since the Portuguese maritime expansion which spans a period of 500 years, gathering mercantile and daily life activities, buildings, small shipyards, and ships connecting water and land. This paper presents a summary of the finds and a comment of the interest of this excavation,...
Tagus: the Ribeira das Naus (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout times historiography has put the centre of attention of Ribeira das Naus, the company responsible for Portugal's expansion, on its warehouses at Terreiro do Paço and surrounding neighbourhoods. In fact, Ribeira das Naus was but the visible face of an enormous chain of production along the Tagus River that, between the XVI...