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- Words of the seaPublication . Falcato, Diogo; Brito, Cristina; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Departamento de História (DH)Historically, the Atlantic was appropriated by a romantic nationalistic view and reduced to the means by which a supposed “golden age” of Portugal was achieved in the Early Modern Period. In this way, the ocean has been ingrained by generations of historians as a ”mere pathway” with its historical agency, as well as of the (non-human) species who populate it, being largely stripped away. This has also led to the marginalization of different links that the Portuguese have longer held towards the sea, a place of nourishment and beauty but also of fear and danger. Even if historical records have proved difficult to obtain an insight into the minds of the people, oral traditions, specifically proverbs are still an underused tool for approaching the forgotten people. The sea and its inhabitants have been a common theme in Portuguese proverbial speech, many of which have survived into current vocabulary. In many cases, we find the same proverbs in sources dating back to the 16 th and 17 th centuries. This survival is evidence of the power of the sea and its imagery in the way people perceive and understand the world, as well as its central importance in Portuguese culture.
- ERC Synergy Grant 4-OCEANSPublication . Brito, Cristina; Baço, Joana; Carvalho, Patrícia; Vieira, Nina; Abrantes Garcia, Ana Catarina; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Departamento de História (DH)
- Shaping Images of/by the seaPublication . Gomes de Almeida, Isabel; Brito, Cristina; Silva, Jaime; Departamento de História (DH); CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
- Study of historical mortars from the Roman Villa of Frielas (Loures, Portugal)Publication . Ahmmed, T.; Galacho, C.; Silva, A. R.; Quaresma, J.; Moita, P.; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Departamento de História (DH)The Roman villa of Frielas is an archaeological site from 3rd – 6th century AD located in Loures, Portugal. The villa is on excavation since 1997. A total of eighteen mortar samples were collected from the different structures of the villa with different functional uses (render, filler, and floor) and analyzed by a multi-analytical approach. The results revealed a similar composition of binder, while differences in aggregates allowed to establish several groups. The information was analyzed to understand if historic recipes from ancient Roman treatises as described by Vitruvius were followed in the manufacturing process, or if traditional formulae were adjusted and adapted to meet a specific demand or due to resource constraints.
- A Last LifePublication . Mateus, Mariana; Bettencourt, José António; Lopes, Gonçalo Correia; Neto, Nuno; Santos, Raquel; Reis, Luís; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Departamento de História (DH)The archaeological intervention between Dom Luís Street I and Boavista Street was an opportunity to document the west Lisbon riverfront, between the 17th and 20th centuries. Most of the relevant features recorded are related to the transformation of this space throughout the 19th century, including three wooden structures, revetments built to protect this area from the river. They were made by reusing ship timbers; one of these structures seems to correspond to the dismantling of a single ship. They can be related to what is known as clandestine embankments, made by private owners. A intervenção arqueológica entre a Rua Dom Luís I e a Rua da Boavista constituiu uma oportunidade para documentar a frente ribeirinha ocidental de Lisboa, entre os séculos XVII e XX. A maior parte dos elementos registados estão relacionados com a transformação deste espaço ao longo do século XIX, incluindo três estruturas de madeira, cofragens construídas para proteger esta área do rio. Estas foram feitas através da reutilização de madeiras náuticas; uma destas estruturas parece corresponder ao desmantelamento de um único navio. As estruturas poderão estar relacionadas com aterros clandestinos, efetuados por proprietários privados. L'intervention archéologique entre la rue Dom Luís I et la rue Boavista a été l'occasion de documenter le secteur riverain ouest de Lisbonne, entre les 17e et 20e siècles. La plupart des caractéristiques pertinentes enregistrées sont liées à la transformation de cet espace tout au long du 19e siècle, y compris trois structures en bois, des revêtements construits pour protéger cette zone de la rivière. Ils ont été fabriqués en réutilisant des bois de navire; l'une de ces structures semble correspondre au démantèlement d'un seul navire. Ils peuvent être liés à ce qu'on appelle des remblais clandestins, fabriqués par des propriétaires privés.
- The faunal assemblage from the Ateneu Artístico Vilafranquense site, Vila Franca de Xira (15th-16th centuries)Publication . Pires, Eva; Gabriel , Sónia; CHAM - Centro de HumanidadesThe archaeological intervention in the Ateneu Artístico Vilafranquense site in 2007, in the context of preventive archaeology, revealed data about the urban center of Vila Franca de Xira during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. This site consists of various negative structures filled with materials whose analysis allowed us to define several occupation phases situated between the town’s founding in the 13th century and the present. The study of the entire set of materials from the intervention, made up of ceramics, faunal remains, glass, metals and lithic materials, allowed us to infer the domestic nature of this context formed by the urban population’s consumption remains. We present the final results of the faunal assemblage analysis, composed by a total of 1070 remains mostly associated with 15th and 16th century levels. The study of these materials denotes the predominance of mammals, mainly cattle and sheep/goat, which would have been the most important sources of meat for this population. Their subsistence would have been complemented by birds, fishes and mollusks, beyond other mammals like suids, leporids and, possibly, cervids. Although most identified species belong to domestic animals, the presence of wild species was detected, marking the practice of hunting and fishing. Other domestic species are associated with the population’s daily life, namely the cat and the horse. In the marine species, the presence of sardine can be highlighted in the fish assemblage, while the mollusks are mainly represented by cockle and mussels. Chicken and ducks makeup most of the avian assemblage. These results can be compared to others obtained in Lisbon and Santarém.
- Resistência e decolonialidade na obra "De risos & lágrimas" de Vera DuartePublication . da Luz, Hilarino; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
- Só cabo tcham morrê” (Renato Cardoso)Publication . da Luz, Hilarino; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
- Shellfish consumption in a late medieval coastal town (Almada, Portugal)Publication . Pires, Eva; Araújo, João Gonçalves; Rosa, Sérgio; Teixeira, André; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Departamento de História (DH); Centro de Humanidades (CHAM - pólo U. Açores)
- WATERSPublication . Gonçalves, Vera; Gomes de Almeida, Isabel; Rosa, Maria Fátima; Brito, Cristina; Vieira, Nina; Silva, Jaime; Satiro, Ana Cristina Laranjinha; CHAM - Centro de Humanidades; Departamento de História (DH)The ancient Mesopotamian religious system found its roots in a human emotional response to experiences within physical reality, whose raison d’être was attributed to numinous entities. The human anxieties before this extraordinary divine power were appeased by the elaboration of mythical-ritual discourses that explained the experiences within a reality controlled by deities. Given that the natural elements were used as “raw material” to create symbolic motifs and metaphors, these religious discourses also constituted a system of knowledge about the reality they were drawn upon. When one investigates Lower Mesopotamia (modern southern Iraq), it becomes obvious the strong impact that changes within its aquatic environment had in the different dimensions of its inhabitants’ everyday life. The abundance but also the menaces within the natural rhythms of fluvial courses, lakes, marshes and of the coastal area of the Arab-Persian Gulf inspired many of the motifs one finds in the above-mentioned religious discourses. The “ever-flowing water”, for instance, was mentioned in literature as an attribute of aquatic deities, who controlled the rivers and the sea; as an iconographic motif to evoke the abundancy within streams; and even applied to cultic objects used in several rituals. The diversity of aquatic motifs can thus allow us to evaluate the importance of Nature to its inhabitant’s emotional/religious constructions in ancient times. Hence, tracing and analyzing Lower Mesopotamian aquatic symbols and metaphors through an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines the theoretical and methodological apparatus of History of Religions and Environmental History, has a profound potentiality to further the knowledge on this civilization. WATERS, an exploratory project that we have recently elaborated, is thus the materialization of the interdisciplinary work we have been developing together. With this paper, we aim to present the outline of this project, thus contributing to the discussion on nature-culture systems.