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- Comunidades islâmicas e medievais-cristãs do Castelo de Paderne: continuidade e mudança. Perspectiva zooarqueológicaPublication . Pereira, VeraJá vários estudos foram publicados sobre o Castelo de Paderne, suas estruturas defensivas e habitacionais, organização espacial intra-muralhas — no que concerne à implantação de casas, arruamentos e canalizações — e espólio mais significativo. O presente artigo pretende abordar as populações que habitaram o Castelo de Paderne em duas épocas distintas, a islâmica e a medieval-cristã, através da Zooarqueologia. Embora seja fruto de um estudo preliminar, que revela limitações inerentes à sua realização como trabalho introdutório de uma cadeira de mestrado, ambiciona pois conhecer um pouco melhor as populações da fortaleza nas suas dimensões económica, social e cultural, através da análise morfológica dos restos faunísticos.
- Immortality of the soul as an intuitive idea: towards a psychological explanation of the origins of afterlife beliefsPublication . Pereira, Vera; Faísca, Luís; Sá-Saraiva, RodrigoThis study tried to investigate if intuitive ideas about the continuation of the Self after death determine the way people represent the state of being dead, and, in this way, investigate possible psychological origins of afterlife beliefs, which constitute a recurrent cultural phenomenon. A semi-structured interview and a self-report questionnaire were used to obtain information on the experience of imagining oneself as dead and the representation of the dead-I of young adults. he results suggest that (1) there is a tendency to imagine the state of being dead as a continuation of the I, even in the absence of explicit afterlife beliefs; (2) perceptual, emotional, epistemic and desire experiences are associated to the dead-I; (3) the representation of the dead-I seems to be determined by an interaction between cognitive processes related to self-awareness and theory of mind, and the cultural afterlife beliefs explicitly learned. A previous alternative hypothesis, suggesting that simulation constraints were responsible for the emergence of non-reflective afterlife concepts (Bering, 2002, 2006) is not completely supported by our results. he data presented here suggest that immortality of the soul might be an intuitive religious concept, connected to the experience of the Self and to the implicit theorization that the experienced Self is independent from the body. Future studies should focus on the collection of cross-cultural and developmental data.
- Neolithic archaeology at the Penedo dos Mouros rock-shelter (Gouveia, Portugal) and the issue of primitive transhumance parctices in the Estrela mountain rangePublication . Carvalho, Antonio Faustino; Pereira, Vera; Duarte, Carlos; Tente, CatarinaLocated in the foothills of the north-western sector of the Estrela Mountain (Beira Alta province in central-north Portugal), Penedo dos Mouros Rock-shelter revealed a succession of three distinct archaeological horizons datable to the evolved Early Neolithic and initial Middle Neolithic, thus partially coinciding with the onset of the regional Megalithism. The find of a few caprine remains at least one possible sheep, among a large spectrum of species - swine, rabbit, hare, Iberian lynx and toad-, makes this site the oldest in the region to provide direct evidence for herding practices. Small-sized pots, expedient use of local lithic raw materials together with curated use of exogenous flint, and low density of artefacts indicate a strategy of residential mobility in line with similar evidence observed elsewhere in Beira Alta. Given previous claims of Neolithic vertical transhumance between montane plateaux -in the summer- and lowland plains -in the winter-, this hypothesis is here discussed -and refuted- based on spatial analysis of Neolithic sites, economic characterization of the period and local orographic and bioclimatic constraints.