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This paper presents a new Lower Palaeolithic station located in the western area of the Cantabrian Sea. The lithic industry was in derived position and included within a soil horizon which laid on a marine terrace assigned to OIS 11. We studied the small lytic series consists of choppers, bifaces, cores and a flake; for their typological characteristics we can fit it into a not evolved Acheulean.

Since its discovery, the rock art of the Côa region has not ceased to increase its numbers, which are reflected at this point in more than 80 sites, with a quantity of engraved rocks that quite exceeds one thousand records. In the first and second parts of this paper we presented a description of the sites scattered along the two main axes of the rock art distribution, the rivers Côa and Douro, respectively. In this third and last part we present an inventory update and the final conclusions, with a review on the knowledge obtained on each of the four chronological periods of the Côa rock art, and also an addendum with the new inventory data obtained in themeantime.

Taking the Passadeiro rock engravings study case as a starting point we will synthetically discuss the chronology of the abstract and subnaturalistic rock art within this region (Northeast of Portugal /Northwest of the Iberian Meseta). At the center of our discussion there are two core questions, they are: i) the chronological and cultural context of “devil claw” type carvings, as well as the other linear and thin motifs graphically associated with them; ii) the fact that, in Passadeiro, those motifs (“devil claw” carvings associated to thin linear risks) are overlapped by asubnaturalistic drawing of a red deer, typologically attributable to the beginnings of the Holocene.Questions will also be brought up concerning the regional prehistoric occupation from the end of the Tardiglaciar period to the middle of the Holocene.

The paper draws a revision of current knowledge and theories about the epigraphy of the Ist Iron age of SW Iberia, with a special focus on the problems related to the development of a script and and our understading of the epigraphy it produces.Proposals are made concernig the identification of the signs of that script and the integration of the related language in the Ist millenium AC.

In recent years we have been making known the existence of pots for the transportation of honey used since early epochs of humankind. In this paper we reveal the existence of a Greek vase of Italiote production from Tarcentum (northeast Italy), which is now part of the collection of the Michigan University Museum and was very probably used to transport this product. We also put forward that these type of containers can go back to the earliest civilizations, namely fromMesopotamia.

The archaeological excavation work carried out in recent years at Braga, the ancient Roman city of Bracara Augusta, have located several remains corresponding to musical instruments. In this article we thoroughly analyze the representations made on a local roman oil lamp terracotta, corresponding to unusual instruments in Hispania, such as organum hydraulicum or hydraulis(water organ) and tibia utricularis (bagpipe). Also we study in context a ceramic fragment of a bucina or tuba and several percussion and wind instruments made of metal, named as cymbala and tintinnabula that inform us about the musical life in ancient Bracara Augusta. In addition to musical instruments, an interesting piece of painted pottery locally produced shows us a dance or ritual dance which refers to specific scenes that happened in the city in close link with the instruments analyzed above.

Through the study of the documentation from the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino de Lisboa, this paper tries to understand the administrative process, the responsibilities and the importance of the royal control over the casting and recasting of Brazilian church bells, as a tool of direct control over the Brazilian Church and the development of territorial occupation. The documentation stands out the roll of the Conselho Ultramarino in the centralization of the kingdom’s bell casting, the weaknesses of this system, the general indifference on behalf of the royal power and the fragilities of the Brazilian church

Despite the neighbourhood, having a common language and belonging to the same ethnic group, the very different physical environments in which farmers and sailors live and work created two opposing worldviews and two radically different ways of living.

Since its discovery, and from its public announcement in late 1994, the rock art of the Côa valley has not ceased to increase its numbers, which are reflected at this point in almost 80 sites, with a quantity of engraved rocks that exceeds one thousand records. In parallel, the diversity of these sites and records has also increased remarkably. In the first part of this paper we presented a description of the Côa rock art sites distributed over the valley of this river. In this second part we present a description of the remaining sites of this huge rock art complex, contemplating now those distributed on the banks of the Douro river, along both sides of the mouth of the Côa.

Two black-figured Greek vases and two other with red-figures from the collection of D. Manuel Lancastre, already published in Vasos Gregos em Portugal. Aquém das Colunas de Hércules (2007), are the subject of this paper. The authors confirm the assignment of a cup type B to Oltos painter and identify the respective painters from the other three vases.

In this paper we will analyze a new kind of administration created by emperor Augustus in some provinces of the Empire, the conventus iuridici. It is one of the most original innovations that best expresses the depth of his reforms, although it has been little valued by some researchers. Taking as an example the conuentus Lucensis and especially its capital city, Lucus Augusti, we can understand the complexity and diversity of their functions. They were used as an original and thoughtful instrument for indigenous control, cohesion and unity and as thebest example of Roman power through the iuris dictio, a concept which, as it will be seen, has been incorrectly interpreted by most researchers

The study of the amphorae found in an excavation in the city of Porto (Aljube) and in the hill fort of Monte Castêlo (Castro de Guifões), in Matosinhos, allows us to make some observations on two important coastal nuclei in the Peninsular Northwest. In Roman times these nuclei, situated in the banks of the Douro and Leça Rivers, acquired a privileged status in the context of the Atlantic navigation and in the transport and redistribution of goods at a local and regional level. In this perspective, the study of the amphorae proved to be very interesting because the ones found in Aljube matched a landfill of material dated fromthe change of the Era while the ones found in Monte Castêlo came from a settlement with a long diachronic occupation throughout all the Imperial period. Moreover, they have an interesting fact in common: they hold one of the largest quantities of Haltern 70 amphorae documented so far in places on consumption. Throughout this study we will put forward the possibility that a hybrid system of market might have existed in Roman times. This system would have been related to the trade of Haltern 70 amphorae and would have been based on a close relationship between the variables costs of transportation/ ethnicity of the populations.

Rodrigo Sanches, bastard son of king Sancho I, died in 1245 in the first battle of the Civil War of 1245-48. His monument was commissioned by his sister, D. Constança Sanches, and executed in Coimbra c. 1263-64. The cenotaph was removed, in 1626, to the Cloister of the monastery of Grijó, and placed in an arcosolium, which only allowed the reading of the lid and the left side of the sarcophagus. Recently, it was removed to a chapel in the Cloister. For the first time in nearly 400 years, we can now analyze the iconography of the four faces of the monument. We present, here, our first reflection.

We study a set of 190 portuguese silver coins (Cruzados Novos), minted between 1750 and 1836, presumably found in the area of Guimarães at an earlier date to 1951, analyzing its composition and comparing it with a similar hoard discovered in Régua (Vila Real).

In a time of great decline of public funding in archaeological investigation, it was formed in 2012 the research project “História do Povoamento de Picote”, proposed by Associação para o Desenvolvimento Integrado de Picote (Frauga) to the University of Porto (UP). This project was created with the main objective of carrying out excavations in the archaeological site of Puio, as well as the recovery of other information’s regarding the past human settlement of Picote village

Ibn Maruán e al-Surunbáqi foram muladis que, nos finais do séc. IX e no contexto de uma grave crise do emirato omíada, se revoltaram contra Muhâmmad (852-886). O autor pretende reconstituir os movimentos dos dois caudilhos e identificar os lugares por onde andaram e onde se fixaram e sugere a sua participação na defesa de Coimbra nos anos imediatamente posteriores à reconquista da cidade em 878.

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Since its discovery, and from its public announcement in late 1994, the rock art of the Côa valley has not ceased to increase its numbers, which are reflected at this point in more than 70 sites, with a quantity of engraved rocks that now exceeds one thousand records. In parallel, the diversity of these sites and records has also increased remarkably. This paper presents a description of each site of the Côa rock art, pointing out its topographical features, the history of the evolution of the discoveries and the current state of archaeological survey, the quantity and chronology of the known records and their characteristics, highlighting the main rocks and motifs.