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DOCUMENT Citation Only Augusto A. Salgado. Jorge Russo. Pedro Caleja. Jorge Freire. Marta Neres.

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. Traditionally, Portugal, and Lisbon, are mainly linked with the Age of Discoveries, and Portuguese scholars tend to forget the sea tragedies that occurred in the contemporary period, including those during the World Wars. Strangely, information about those recent disasters and their “cultural footprint”, has proven difficult to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José Bettencourt. Jorge Freire. Augusto Salgado. António Fialho.

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. On early modern age Tagus bar became an important transition point between river and ocean navigation for ships coming from all parts of the world. The research carried out there since 2018 included the monitoring of Bugio 1 (c. 1700) and the prospection of a large area. This work allowed us to record other contexts, with a material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Inês Mendes da Silva.

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...