Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde - CIAS - Research Centre for 

Anthropology and Health

O principal objectivo do CIAS é a investigação da saúde, doença e bem-estar humano, numa perspectiva biocultural, quer nas populações actuais quer nas do passado.

The main goal of "Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde" is the study of human health, disease and well-being, in past and living populations, from a bio-cultural perspective.

I&D Units Avaliation, 2007 - CIAS obtained the classification of "Excelent" / Avaliação de Unidades de I&D, 2007 - CIAS com classificação de "Excelente"
Comments from the evaluation panel/Comentários do painel de avaliação

Notícias do CIAS - CIAS nas notícias/ News from CIAS - CIAS at news

Prizes won by CIAS's members in international meetings

Filipa Cortesão Silva
The work entitled Anthropological analysis of Roman cremation burials from Augusta Emerita, Merida, Spain, co-authored by Joana Márquez and Ana Luísa Santos, won the best post-graduate oral presentation prize at the Ancient cremations workshop: “Ancient cremation: re-igniting the debate”, Cardiff University, School of History and Archaeology, UK (9-10 October 2009). Information here
Photo: Filipa Cortesão Silva receiving the prize from Jacqueline McKinley
David Gonçalves
Won the best student poster presentation with the work entitled Lateral angle of the petrous bone as sex predictor for cremated human remains presented at the 11th Annual Conference of BABAO, Bradford, UK (18-20 September 2009). Information here
Francisco Curate
Won the best student oral presentation prize with the work entitled Fracturas del femur proximal en dos colecciones osteológicas identificadas Portuguesas at the X Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (3-5 September 2009) Information here

New volume of Antropologia Portuguesa and call for papers

A team including Susana Carvalho (CIAS's member) publishes in Nature about  Primate archaeology

More details here.

See additional information at Science News.

Recent cover of American Journal of Human Biology featuring CIAS research

Guinea-Bissau, March, 2009

For the third time, Prof. Eugénia Cunha directed a forensic anthropology mission in Gabu, Guinea-Bissau, where CIAS's members Maria Luís Carvalho e Teresa Ferreira also participated. This mission at the news.

Workshop in Jamaica, January, 2009

Invited by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, a CIAS's member taught at the Workshop in Human Osteology, entitled The Bone man Connection, January 2009.

Ateliers pedagógicos: Museu Antropológico - MHNUC e GEEvH

Notícia do Diário de Coimbra, 18 Fev 2009

Actividades pedagógicas de membros do GEEvH/CIAS - 2009

- Serviço Educativo do Museu D. Diogo de Sousa, Braga (4 de Abril)

- Museu da Ciência, Coimbra (6 de Março, 2009)

- Escola de Seringbara, uma aldeia dos montes Nimba, Guiné Conakry (Fevereiro, 2009)

More news (here...)

Eventos passados/ Past events

Workshop in Musculoskeletal Stress Marker (MSM) 2nd-3rd, July, 2009

Ateliers Sobre as pegadas do passado, Museu Antropológico - MHNUC, FCTUC - 2.ª edição (Janeiro a Julho de 2009)

Mais eventos passados/ More past events - aqui/here