José Antonio Bettencourt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1684705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Antonio Bettencourt |
| GIVEN NAMES | José Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Bettencourt |
| SIGNATURE | BETTENCOURT J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7722-5115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fragments of Trade and Consumption
Archaeological interventions along Lisbon's riverside have revealed critical insights into the city's transformation from a maritime beach to an industrialized port zone. Excavations at the former Praia da Boa Vista revealed three ships (Boa Vista 1, 2, and 5), probably abandoned on the old Boa Vista beach between the last half of the seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth century. These contexts, linked to the Atlantic trade and in…
Lisbon, Britain’s Main Supply Port during the Napoleonic Wars
Miguel Martins, University of Lisbon Augusto Salgado, University of Lisbon and Portuguese Navy Research Centre José Bettencourt, nova lisbon University Jorge Freire, nova lisbon University In under
Shipwrecks in the Azores and Global Navigation (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
The strategic importance of the Azores Islands resulted in the formation of a vast post-medieval underwater cultural heritage, consisting of shipwrecks and anchorages. This paper will discuss the scientific potential of this heritage through a presentation of the main shipwreck sites, specifically focusing on two historic ports of the archipelago’s central group where archaeological activity has been particularly intense: Angra, on Terceira Islan…
A gestão do Patrimônio Cultural Subaquático no Atlântico Afro-ibero-americano
Ao longo dos últimos 20 anos, a arqueologia subaquática tem sofrido, enquanto disciplina científica, uma grande evolução, refletindo o despertar das diferentes sociedades para a necessidade de salvaguardar o seu Patrimônio Cultural Subaquático (PCS). Contudo, as conjunturas políticas dos diferentes estados têm levado à definição de políticas de gestão e salvaguarda que nem sempre refletem as necessidades ideais do PCS. Refletindo sumariamente sob…
Spatial Statistical Analysis of Shipwreck Sites
Spatial statistical analysis is almost absent from research on underwater archaeological contexts. However, the information obtained using this approach would allow the reconstruction of depositional dynamics and the exploration of distribution patterns related to the ships’ on-board organization. This paper proposes a six-step methodology that will contribute to reducing the current gap in the use of spatial statistical analysis of shipwreck sit…
Boa Vista 1
Archaeological excavations carried out in the riverside area of Lisbon in 2012 and 2013 revealed the remains of two ships: Boa Vista 1 and Boa Vista 2. Both were found in a wide anchorage used since Roman times, where they were deposited at some point between the mid-17th and the mid-18th centuries.This paper will present a preliminary analysis of the Boa Vista 1 construction. Some features are common in the Mediterranean, for example, a composit…
Early modern reused ship timbers from Boqueirão do Duro, Lisbon, Portugal
Archaeological excavations conducted at the riverside area of Lisbon (Boqueirão do Duro, Santos) in 2016 revealed archaeological remains from the 18th to the 19th centuries, including the remains of a late 19th-century factory named Vulcano e Colares built on top of an ancient beach and later port.The waterfront archaeological contexts were wide-ranging. There were several timbers from a large ship dismantled on the beach, port structures that re…
Early Modern Age Ships and Ship Finds in Lisbon’s Riverfront
Submerged and reused
Ria de Aveiro F
The Ria de Aveiro F site was discovered during preventive archaeological works carried out in the scope of the 2002 expansion of Aveiro’s harbour into the Ria de Aveiro, a lagoon system located in northern Portugal which played a great role in the salt trade of the Early Modern period. Despite the global destruction of the context caused by the dredging works, several well preserved structural elements were recovered. They belonged to two ships, …
Hit and sunk
A set of 34 archaeological ceramics, including olive jars, transparent green lead glazed, tin-lead glazed and unglazed ceramics, from seventeenth century Angra D shipwreck found at Terceira Island (Azores Archipelago, Portugal) was archaeometrically characterized by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Ceramic provenance has been established by statistical explorati…
Single events and century-scale evolution of the northern margin of the Tagus River before the Boavista landfill
In this work we present preliminary results of the study of one sediment core (EDP1), collected near Cais do Sodré, Lisbon downtown, close to the present day Tagus riverfront. The results allowed differentiation of 4 major sediment units that present a signature of increasing anthropic influence over time. The lowermost unit (Unit 1) corresponds to a subtidal flat accreting in low energy and brackish conditions. This sedimentation pattern is inte…
The Atlantic Expansion and the Portuguese Material Culture in the Early Modern Age
Hit and sunk
A set of 34 archaeological ceramics, including olive jars, transparent green lead glazed, tin-lead glazed and unglazed ceramics, from seventeenth century Angra D shipwreck found at Terceira Island (Azores Archipelago, Portugal) was archaeometrically characterized by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Ceramic provenance has been established by statistical explorati…
Submerged and reused
Spatial Statistical Analysis of Shipwreck Sites
Spatial statistical analysis is almost absent from research on underwater archaeological contexts. However, the information obtained using this approach would allow the reconstruction of depositional dynamics and the exploration of distribution patterns related to the ships’ on-board organization. This paper proposes a six-step methodology that will contribute to reducing the current gap in the use of spatial statistical analysis of shipwreck sit…
Early Modern Age Ships and Ship Finds in Lisbon’s Riverfront
Ria de Aveiro F
The Ria de Aveiro F site was discovered during preventive archaeological works carried out in the scope of the 2002 expansion of Aveiro’s harbour into the Ria de Aveiro, a lagoon system located in northern Portugal which played a great role in the salt trade of the Early Modern period. Despite the global destruction of the context caused by the dredging works, several well preserved structural elements were recovered. They belonged to two ships, …
The Atlantic Expansion and the Portuguese Material Culture in the Early Modern Age
Single events and century-scale evolution of the northern margin of the Tagus River before the Boavista landfill
In this work we present preliminary results of the study of one sediment core (EDP1), collected near Cais do Sodré, Lisbon downtown, close to the present day Tagus riverfront. The results allowed differentiation of 4 major sediment units that present a signature of increasing anthropic influence over time. The lowermost unit (Unit 1) corresponds to a subtidal flat accreting in low energy and brackish conditions. This sedimentation pattern is inte…
Submerged and reused
Ria de Aveiro F
The Ria de Aveiro F site was discovered during preventive archaeological works carried out in the scope of the 2002 expansion of Aveiro’s harbour into the Ria de Aveiro, a lagoon system located in northern Portugal which played a great role in the salt trade of the Early Modern period. Despite the global destruction of the context caused by the dredging works, several well preserved structural elements were recovered. They belonged to two ships, …
Hit and sunk
A set of 34 archaeological ceramics, including olive jars, transparent green lead glazed, tin-lead glazed and unglazed ceramics, from seventeenth century Angra D shipwreck found at Terceira Island (Azores Archipelago, Portugal) was archaeometrically characterized by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Ceramic provenance has been established by statistical explorati…
Boa Vista 1
Archaeological excavations carried out in the riverside area of Lisbon in 2012 and 2013 revealed the remains of two ships: Boa Vista 1 and Boa Vista 2. Both were found in a wide anchorage used since Roman times, where they were deposited at some point between the mid-17th and the mid-18th centuries.This paper will present a preliminary analysis of the Boa Vista 1 construction. Some features are common in the Mediterranean, for example, a composit…
Early modern reused ship timbers from Boqueirão do Duro, Lisbon, Portugal
Archaeological excavations conducted at the riverside area of Lisbon (Boqueirão do Duro, Santos) in 2016 revealed archaeological remains from the 18th to the 19th centuries, including the remains of a late 19th-century factory named Vulcano e Colares built on top of an ancient beach and later port.The waterfront archaeological contexts were wide-ranging. There were several timbers from a large ship dismantled on the beach, port structures that re…
Early Modern Age Ships and Ship Finds in Lisbon’s Riverfront
Spatial Statistical Analysis of Shipwreck Sites
Spatial statistical analysis is almost absent from research on underwater archaeological contexts. However, the information obtained using this approach would allow the reconstruction of depositional dynamics and the exploration of distribution patterns related to the ships’ on-board organization. This paper proposes a six-step methodology that will contribute to reducing the current gap in the use of spatial statistical analysis of shipwreck sit…
Shipwrecks in the Azores and Global Navigation (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
The strategic importance of the Azores Islands resulted in the formation of a vast post-medieval underwater cultural heritage, consisting of shipwrecks and anchorages. This paper will discuss the scientific potential of this heritage through a presentation of the main shipwreck sites, specifically focusing on two historic ports of the archipelago’s central group where archaeological activity has been particularly intense: Angra, on Terceira Islan…
A gestão do Patrimônio Cultural Subaquático no Atlântico Afro-ibero-americano
Ao longo dos últimos 20 anos, a arqueologia subaquática tem sofrido, enquanto disciplina científica, uma grande evolução, refletindo o despertar das diferentes sociedades para a necessidade de salvaguardar o seu Patrimônio Cultural Subaquático (PCS). Contudo, as conjunturas políticas dos diferentes estados têm levado à definição de políticas de gestão e salvaguarda que nem sempre refletem as necessidades ideais do PCS. Refletindo sumariamente sob…
Lisbon, Britain’s Main Supply Port during the Napoleonic Wars
Miguel Martins, University of Lisbon Augusto Salgado, University of Lisbon and Portuguese Navy Research Centre José Bettencourt, nova lisbon University Jorge Freire, nova lisbon University In under
Fragments of Trade and Consumption
Archaeological interventions along Lisbon's riverside have revealed critical insights into the city's transformation from a maritime beach to an industrialized port zone. Excavations at the former Praia da Boa Vista revealed three ships (Boa Vista 1, 2, and 5), probably abandoned on the old Boa Vista beach between the last half of the seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth century. These contexts, linked to the Atlantic trade and in…
Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (6 works) · Geology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (3 works) · Historical Studies on Spain (3 works) · History (3 works)