Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Lisbon became a major maritime centre during the Early Modern Age, functioning as a commercial, political and military platform. A considerable number of vessels used in ocean navigation, of different European flags, were common in their ports. Moreover, historical research has revealed a pre-industrial belt along the Tagus River, connected by river navigation.
Archaeological research has revealed this maritime dimension. At the river mouth, several shipwrecks covering the period between the 16th and 20th centuries were documented. Since the 1990s, more or less structured remains of boats and ships, with dates between the 16th and 19th centuries, have frequently been unearthed in the riverine area of Lisbon. The same excavations have revealed several port structures, piers, jetties and shipyards. On the south bank, pottery kilns, biscuit ovens and tidal mills were studied. This session provides contributions from terrestrial and underwater archeology on these topics.
Other Keywords
Tagus •
Maritime Archaeology •
Lisbon •
Urban Archaeology •
Embankment •
Nautical Archaeology •
Anchors •
conflict archaeology •
Portugal •
17th century
Geographic Keywords
Lisbon •
PORTUGAL •
Portuguese Republic (Country) •
Portalegre (State / Territory) •
Castelo Branco (State / Territory) •
Braganca (State / Territory) •
Guarda (State / Territory) •
Vila Real (State / Territory) •
Braga (State / Territory) •
Beja (State / Territory)
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Campo das Cebolas nautical contexts. Study results (2023)
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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...
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Grand Principessa Di Toscana – Story And Archaeology Of A 17th Century Shipwreck In Cabo Raso (Cascais) (2023)
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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. In the 1960s, a set of bronze cannons was discovered by an amateur diver in the Cabo Raso area of Cascais. In the years that followed, the archaeological site was the target of several "well-intentioned" lootings or recoveries. It was only in the 1980s that pioneering underwater archaeological work was carried out, promoted by the...
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Lançar Ferro em Lisboa: A Study Of Anchors In The Lisbon Waterfront (2023)
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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. The following paper intends to disclose the results of the study of some anchors sets found in archaeological contexts, datable from the 15th century onwards in the Lisbon waterfront. Through the study of these archaeological materials of various sizes and appearances, we hope both to provide some useful data for the research on...
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A Last Life: The Reuse of Ship Timbers on the Construction of River Waterfronts on Rua D. Luís I (Lisbon) (2023)
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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. The archaeological intervention of the Rua Dom Luís I, 1-18 A / Rua da Boavista, 51-59 site, gave us the opportunity to record new data related to the evolution and use of the west part of Lisbon riverfront, between the 17th and 20th centuries. The most relevant finds recorded during this intervention are related to the...
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The Potential of Reutilized Ship Timbers for Shipbuilding Studies: the Case of Boqueirão do Duro (Lisbon, Portugal) (2023)
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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. The urban requalification works on the Lisbon waterfront have frequently exposed traces of vessels and port structures or containment structures on the banks of the Tagus River. Many of these structures incorporate reused ship timbers. Archaeological excavations carried at the Boqueirão do Duro, Santos, in 2016 revealed several...
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Steel And Steam At The Entrance Of The River Tagus.A Different Reality And New Fields Of Research (2023)
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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. 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...
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Sunk – First Results of a Research Project on Tagus Mouth Early Modern Shipwrecks (2023)
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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. 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...
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Tagus: the Ribeira das Naus (2023)
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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. 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...