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- The “Ferradeira” individual burial of Herdade do Álamo (Beja): facets of social change in the late 3rd millennium BC in South PortugalPublication . Valera, António Carlos; do Pereiro, Tiago; Nogueira, Sofia; Evangelista, Lucy; Maurer, Anne-France; Barrocas Dias, Cristina; Ribeiro, Sara; Bottaini, CarloThe individual burial of the Herdade do Alamo, located in Beja municipality, South Portugal, is presented along with its bioanthropological study, radiocarbon dating and isotopic approaches on diet and mobility. The results show a male, with a terrestrial diet and youth mobility, dating from the last quarter of the 3rd millennium BC. The archaeometallurgical study of the metal votive assemblage (one tongue dagger and three Palmela points) indicates a copper metallurgy with high values of Arsenic (As), typical of this period of transition. The burial is contextualized in a process of individuation of the funerary practices and in the "Ferradeira Horizon", considered as a facet of the diversified funerary practices and of the complex social changes of the late 3rd millennium BC in the South of Portugal.
- In the bosom of the Earth: a new megalithic monument at the Antequera World Heritage SitePublication . García Sanjuán, Leonardo; Wheatley, David W.; Lozano Rodríguez, José Antonio; Evangelista, Lucy; González García, Antonio César; Cintas-Peña, Marta; Díaz-Guardamino, Marta; Nieto, Verónica Balsera; Montero Artús, Raquel; Kanz, Fabian; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Jiménez Espejo, Francisco J.; Rivera Jiménez, TimoteoAntequera in southern Spain is widely recognised as an outstanding example of the European megalithic phe-nomenon. One of its most remarkable features is the evident relationship between conspicuous natural for-mations and human-built monuments. Here, the authors report the results of their investigation of a tomb newly discovered at the site of Piedras Blancas at the foot of La Pena de los Enamorados, a limestone massif that dominates the Antequera plain. Excavation and multidisciplinary study, including geological, architectural and archaeoastronomical investigations, have revealed a complex funerary monument that is part natural, part built, part hypogeum, part megalith. The results emphasise the centrality of La Pena in the Neolithic worldview and encouragewider investigation of prehistoric place-making.
- Beyond faith: Biomolecular evidence for changing urban economies in multi‐faith medieval PortugalPublication . Toso, Alice; Schifano, Simona; Oxborough, Charlotte; McGrath, Krista; Spindler, Luke; Castro, Anabela; Evangelista, Lucy; Filipe, Vanessa; Gonçalves, Maria João; Marques, Antonio; Mendes da Silva, Inês; Santos, Raquel; Valente, Maria João; McCleery, Iona; Alexander, MichelleDuring the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The implications of changing ruling powers for urban food systems and individual diets in medieval Portugal is poorly understood. This study aimed to elucidate the dietary impact of the Islamic and Christian conquests.