Research projects: 2007-2010

The James Lee Collection

Duration: 2001 – ongoing

The Hospital-Colony Rovisco Pais: anthropology and history in context

Duration: 2005-2008

Farming Communities in the 1st millennium b. C in Central Alentejo

Duration: 2006 – ongoing

Applying the Concept of Chaîne Opératoire to Nut-cracking – An Approach Based on Studying Communities of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Bossou and Diecké (Republic of Guinea)

Duration: 2006 – 2007

Diachrony of neoplasia: contribute of human osteologic remains

Duration: 2007 – 2011

Living the death in Portugal: the scientific potential of anthropological field reports (from 1994 to 2007)

Duration: 2007 – 2011

The last hunter-gatherers in the Tagus Valley - the Muge shell middens

Duration: 11/1/2007 – 3/31/2011

Chimpanzee Archaeology: Seeking the Evolutionary Origins of Technology

Duration: 2007 – 2012

The paleodemographic and paleopathological study of the pre-Columbian human remains from Cambridge Hill (Jamaica)

Duration: 2008- ongoing

Pounding Tool Working Group Research

Duration: 2008 – ongoing

Cremains: the value of quantitative analysis for the bioanthropological research of burned human skeletal remains

Duration: 2008 – 2011

Requalification of the Leiria Castle

Duration: July 10, 2009 – December 31, 2011

An Investigation into the Microscopic and Macroscopic Heat-induced Changes in Bone and their Application to the Archaeological Context.

Duration: 2010 – 2011

TB or not TB: using histology to diagnose rib lesions in past human populations

Duration: 2010 – 2011

The last hunter- gatherers of Muge (Portugal): the origins of social complexity”

Duration: 4/1/2010 – 3/31/2012

The clinical archive of the sanatorium Carlos Vasconcelos Porto: contribution to the history of tuberculosis and its paleopathological diagnosis

Duration: 2010-2013

Death management in Recent Prehistory: funerary practices in Perdigões enclosure.

Duration: 06/01/2010 – 05/31/2013

Antropization of Spaces – Natural resource adaptation and human occupation continuity in the Pre and Proto-History of Estremadura (Portugal)

Duration: 2010 – 2014

Characterization of Dental Morphology in Middle Guadiana River in the Final Neolithic-Early Chalcolithic: Fundaments for Morphological Mapping of Local Populations in Recent Prehistory

Duration: 2010 – 2014

Dental Morphology in a dental sample from 19th / 20th centuries Central Portugal

Duration: 2010 – 2014

Projecto ESTELA: Investigação em Torno da Escrita do Sudoeste.

Duration: 2010 – 2014

Algar do Bom Santo: a research project on the Neolithic populations of Portuguese Estremadura (6th-4th millenia BC)

Duration: 01/04/2010 - 31-03-2013

Study of an Identified Collection of Skulls and its Importance to the Knowledge of Syphilis in the Population of Coimbra in the Passage of the 19th to 20th  Centuries

Duration: 2008-2011

The retrospective diagnosis of leprosy: clinical and paleopathological complementarities in the medical archive of the Hospital-Colónia Rovisco Pais (HCRP), Tocha, Portugal, and in the skeletal collection from the medieval leprosarium of St. Jørgen’s, Odense, Denmark

Duration: 2004-2008