Tânia Manuel Casimiro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 925834 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tânia Manuel Casimiro |
| NOMBRES | Tânia Manuel |
| APELLIDO | Casimiro |
| FIRMA | CASIMIRO T M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9471-6194 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Hours Rock Art
This paper explores a unique case of contemporary rock art on a cement wall at Ponta dos Corvos, Portugal. Over 60 years, individuals carved names, dates, symbols, and messages on the wall, transforming it into a palimpsest of personal and collective memory. What began as informal graffiti has become an archaeological record that reflects the identities, emotions and social practices of successive generations. By applying different methods and an…
These Words Are My Own
English is the lingua franca not only for academia but also for almost all international infrastructures and global communications. It comes as no surprise, then, that the dominant and assumed normative voice in archaeology is standard British English (SBE) for narratives of various times and places. This language is ‘majoritarian’—by this we do not mean that it is spoken by most of humanity, but that it is the imposed ‘ideal’ others are measured…
Capturing emotions in the factory
Archaeology, Activism, and Protest
The Weaker Sex? An Archaeology for Gender Empowerment in Twentieth-Century Portugal
Multisensorial Experiences in Early Modern Artefacts
Excavating Alcatrazes, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Excavations at Alcatrazes, the seat of Cape Verde's short-lived second captaincy, have exposed a Portuguese colonial settlement, demonstrating continued occupation after the relocation of its official offices. The results include insights into early Luso-African practices and the presence of West African and local-made pottery, with environmental samples 'clocking' colonial introductions
Excavating Alcatrazes, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Smoking in Portuguese Historical Archaeology. Clay Pipes, Social Habits and Long-Distance Relations
Automatic ceramic identification using machine learning. Lusitanian amphorae and Faience. Two Portuguese case studies
This article presents a novel approach to classifying archaeological artefacts using machine learning, specifically deep learning, rather than relying on traditional, time-consuming human-based methods. By employing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), this approach aims to expedite and enhance the identification process, making it more accessible to a wider audience. The study focuses on two types of artefacts- Roman Lusitanian amphorae (2nd-5t…
Networking Social Behaviours in a 19th-Century Cemetery
This paper aims to study one of Lisbon’s 19th-century cemeteries, Ajuda, from a network theory point of view, joining social organization and network theory from a movement and visibility perspective. We will study movement networks, bearing in mind when applying our method that cemeteries are organized as cities with streets and “houses” (tombs), and try to understand whether the location of these monuments took into consideration the places whe…
Urban Archaeology in Buenos Aires. Excavating an imagined city [Original title
An Archaeometric Study of Lead-Glazed Medieval Ceramics (13th–14th Century) from Santarém, Portugal
Ceramic sherds from approximately 20 samples of lead-glazed tableware, recovered from diverse archaeological sites, including three repurposed storage pits transformed into dumpsters within the medieval city of Santarém (13th–14th century), underwent a meticulous examination. This investigation utilised techniques such as micro-Raman, ground-state diffuse reflectance absorption, and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopies, in addition to X-ray diffract…
Female Microhistorical Archaeology
Microhistory is a part of historical research that focuses on the behaviours, practices, and perceptions of individuals and small communities, locating them in social, economic, and cultural frameworks. Although archaeology has already focused on similar attempts, microarchaeology seldom takes a female perspective. This article aims to discuss how microhistory can be used in historical archaeology, engendering past narratives, those which are usu…
Metal Objects Were Much Desired
During winter storms in 2014 and 2017, strong waves exposed hundreds of timbers and artefacts at the Belinho beach, in the North of Portugal. These ship remains were later discovered to belong to a 16th-century shipwreck, probably originating from Northern Europe. This paper aims to discuss the importance of cargo analysis through the study of the material culture associated with that site, consisting mainly of hundreds of pewter, brass, lead, ir…
Synaesthetic landscapes
In 1781, a book discussing the relationship between cats and dogs was published in Lisbon. Among the illustrations, there is a representation of a palace, more precisely the Marquess of Ponte de Lima palace in Mafra, Portugal. This illustration reveals how this space was lived and felt not only by the observer but also by all the human and non-human agents that circulated and existed in this space. The palace still exists, it is a public building…
Life on Board Portuguese Ships in the 16th–18th Centuries
Recognizing and defining behaviors is among the most challenging objectives of writing narratives about the past, especially when direct testimony and the evidence of agents’ actions are long lost. Typically, archaeologists look at material remains to reconstruct daily activities, while historians read and interpret documents that articulate how agents interacted with their surroundings. Following an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeolo…
Living by the Sea
Mid-19th century maps of Tróia Peninsula (Grândola) indicated the existence of a site named “Fishermen’s huts” on the beach. The site was partially excavated in 2019 and presents the characteristics of a village where around a dozen vernacular architecture shacks accommodated people who lived there between approximately 1860 and 1920. The architecture, material culture, and settlement location reveal the presence of a population with specific soc…
The “San Giacomo di Galizia” Warship Galleon (1597)—Building Narratives through an Archaeological and Historical Reading of the Ribadeo I Shipwreck
Early November 1597. After an intense combat with four enemy ships, San Giacomo di Galizia (also known as Santiago), a just over 1000-ton galleon, enters the Ribadeo harbour in a terrible state, where it wrecks. This war vessel had been built in Naples in 1590 and sailed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic until it sank. In late November 2011, during an archaeological survey of the dredge area to improve the navigation of the ports in Galicia, a l…
Ship Archaeology and Material Culture
This Special Issue is a compilation of studies on underwater and maritime sites related to Early Modern ships and shipwrecks. [...]
Circulation in Seventeenth-Century Lisbon (Portugal)
By the 17th century, Lisbon was a large and complex city—the capital of a large empire in which thousands of people and goods originating from different places around the world circulated. Yet the city was still organized according to its medieval footprint, one consequence of which was numerous documented traffic problems. In 1686, King Pedro II decreed that places in Lisbon where the problems were most recurrent should be marked with signs esta…
Wealth in Religious and Secular Contexts
Wealth differentials in archaeological sites are a frequently studied topic, but social differentiation approaches are rarely applied to different contexts within a wider territory, especially in Portugal. In this article, the authors discuss the differences in wealth and inequality through the consumption of tablewares from fifteen sites across Portugal dated from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries ad . The archaeological evidence derives…
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th-20th centuries)
African Presence in Portugal
The first reference to the presence of sub-Saharan Africans in Portugal was made in 1444 CE when several enslaved individuals entered the country through Lagos, Portugal. From that moment onward the amount of people and things arriving to the country originating in sub-Saharan Africa increased. Burials, ivories, and pottery provide evidence of the cultural contacts between Europeans and Africans in Portugal. This article analyzes the available in…
Formas e sabores
A cultura material associada à produção e consumo de alimentos, nomeadamente a cerâmica, representa o maior volume dos conjuntos arqueológicos exumados em contextos portugueses de Idade Moderna. Panelas, tachos, frigideiras, pratos, tigelas ou salseiras, produzidos em cerâmica comum ou vidrada, testemunham tanto os distintos processos de preparação dos alimentos ou modos de apresentação destes à mesa, como as tecnologias de produção cerâmica disp…
Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde
After the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde Islands in AD 1456 they divided its main island, Santiago, into two governing captaincies. The founding settlement in the south-west, Cidade Velha, soon became the Islands' capital and a thriving trade centre; in contrast, that in the east, Alcatrazes, only lasted as an official seat from 1484-1516 and is held to have 'failed' (see Richter 2015
Custom-Made Ceramics, Trans-Atlantic Business Partnerships and Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early Modern Newfoundland
Globalization, trade, and material culture
In the Early Modern age, Portugal was among the first European countries to engage in overseas trade and colonial ventures. The influx of new people and things rapidly transformed it into a multicultural country in permanent contact with the rest of Europe and the wider world. While we possess a vast amount of knowledge describing the overseas contacts and acquisition of goods from historical documents, in recent years archaeological excavations …
Afro-Portuguese Ivories from Sierra Leone and Nigeria (Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms) in Archaeological Contexts from Southern Portugal
October 01 2020 Afro-Portuguese Ivories from Sierra Leone and Nigeria (Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms) in Archaeological Contexts from Southern Portugal Mário Varela Gomes, Mário Varela Gomes Mário Varela Gomes is an archaeologist and retired professor at NOVA University of Lisbon, a member of the Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes and Academia Portuguesa da História, and sub-director of the Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociěncias NOVA University of Li…
Mobility and Identities
Material Culture from the Al Hallaniyah Island Early 16th‐Century Portuguese Indiaman Wreck‐site
Excavation of an underwater site on Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman, conducted from 2013 to 2015, confirmed the presence of at least one early 16th-century shipwreck. The location is believed to be where Vincente and Brás de Sodré’s Esmeralda and the São Pedro, both part of Vasco de Gama's second voyage to India, were wrecked in 1503. This article describes the ceramic and other domestic material assemblage. It is a study of the objects used by sailor…
Wealth in Religious and Secular Contexts
Wealth differentials in archaeological sites are a frequently studied topic, but social differentiation approaches are rarely applied to different contexts within a wider territory, especially in Portugal. In this article, the authors discuss the differences in wealth and inequality through the consumption of tablewares from fifteen sites across Portugal dated from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries ad . The archaeological evidence derives…
Post-medieval archaeology in Portugal
Portuguese post-medieval archaeology corresponds to the period between the early 16th century and the late 18th century, identified in the archaeological record through several distinct artefact categories, of which ceramics are the most abundant. New products such as thin-walled moulded coarsewares and faience are found together with imports from different European countries, China and other Eastern lands. Although sites and finds are mentioned …
An Archaeometric Study of Lead-Glazed Medieval Ceramics (13th–14th Century) from Santarém, Portugal
Ceramic sherds from approximately 20 samples of lead-glazed tableware, recovered from diverse archaeological sites, including three repurposed storage pits transformed into dumpsters within the medieval city of Santarém (13th–14th century), underwent a meticulous examination. This investigation utilised techniques such as micro-Raman, ground-state diffuse reflectance absorption, and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopies, in addition to X-ray diffract…
Synaesthetic landscapes
In 1781, a book discussing the relationship between cats and dogs was published in Lisbon. Among the illustrations, there is a representation of a palace, more precisely the Marquess of Ponte de Lima palace in Mafra, Portugal. This illustration reveals how this space was lived and felt not only by the observer but also by all the human and non-human agents that circulated and existed in this space. The palace still exists, it is a public building…
Spectroscopic characterization of amphorae from the 8th to the 7th c. BCE found at the Almaraz settlement in Almada, Portugal
A Late 17th‐Century Trade Cargo from Ponta do Leme Velho, Sal Island, Cape Verde
In 1973, while recovering copper cargo from a 20th-century ship wrecked off the Ponta do Leme Velho on the south-east side of Sal Island, Cape Verde, explosives revealed an earlier ship cargo with dozens of Portuguese faience plates and bowls, glass beads and metal objects, including buckles, ammunition and copper manillas. The assemblage, including the ceramics and a marked silver tastevin, provide a site date between 1680 and 1700. The research…
Excavating Alcatrazes, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Excavations at Alcatrazes, the seat of Cape Verde's short-lived second captaincy, have exposed a Portuguese colonial settlement, demonstrating continued occupation after the relocation of its official offices. The results include insights into early Luso-African practices and the presence of West African and local-made pottery, with environmental samples 'clocking' colonial introductions
Female Microhistorical Archaeology
Microhistory is a part of historical research that focuses on the behaviours, practices, and perceptions of individuals and small communities, locating them in social, economic, and cultural frameworks. Although archaeology has already focused on similar attempts, microarchaeology seldom takes a female perspective. This article aims to discuss how microhistory can be used in historical archaeology, engendering past narratives, those which are usu…
Metal Objects Were Much Desired
During winter storms in 2014 and 2017, strong waves exposed hundreds of timbers and artefacts at the Belinho beach, in the North of Portugal. These ship remains were later discovered to belong to a 16th-century shipwreck, probably originating from Northern Europe. This paper aims to discuss the importance of cargo analysis through the study of the material culture associated with that site, consisting mainly of hundreds of pewter, brass, lead, ir…
The “San Giacomo di Galizia” Warship Galleon (1597)—Building Narratives through an Archaeological and Historical Reading of the Ribadeo I Shipwreck
Early November 1597. After an intense combat with four enemy ships, San Giacomo di Galizia (also known as Santiago), a just over 1000-ton galleon, enters the Ribadeo harbour in a terrible state, where it wrecks. This war vessel had been built in Naples in 1590 and sailed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic until it sank. In late November 2011, during an archaeological survey of the dredge area to improve the navigation of the ports in Galicia, a l…
A world of beads from the Island of Mozambique (16th-20th centuries)
African Presence in Portugal
The first reference to the presence of sub-Saharan Africans in Portugal was made in 1444 CE when several enslaved individuals entered the country through Lagos, Portugal. From that moment onward the amount of people and things arriving to the country originating in sub-Saharan Africa increased. Burials, ivories, and pottery provide evidence of the cultural contacts between Europeans and Africans in Portugal. This article analyzes the available in…
What's that smell? New directions for materials studies
Smellscapes' have become an increasingly popular concept in recent years. Here, the authors argue for a new direction in sensorial archaeology by focusing on the 'smell of things' or the potential information held in the odours of archaeological objects. They offer a case study using early modern earthenware ceramics from Portugal-renowned for the distinctive smell and taste imparted to their contents-to explore the possibility of developing stan…
Portable Steam Engines and Traction Engines and Their Use in Rural Areas
In the second half of the 19th century, the area known as Lezíria, in Portugal, started to use portable steam and traction engines in agricultural production. Out of more than a hundred original examples, all of them manufactured in England, little more than a dozen survive today, with different levels of preservation. This article studies these for the first time through an archaeological perspective, identifying their use and importance in diff…
Post-medieval archaeology in Portugal
Portuguese post-medieval archaeology corresponds to the period between the early 16th century and the late 18th century, identified in the archaeological record through several distinct artefact categories, of which ceramics are the most abundant. New products such as thin-walled moulded coarsewares and faience are found together with imports from different European countries, China and other Eastern lands. Although sites and finds are mentioned …
A Medieval Boat Graffito from Silves, Algarve, Portugal
A Late 17th‐Century Trade Cargo from Ponta do Leme Velho, Sal Island, Cape Verde
In 1973, while recovering copper cargo from a 20th-century ship wrecked off the Ponta do Leme Velho on the south-east side of Sal Island, Cape Verde, explosives revealed an earlier ship cargo with dozens of Portuguese faience plates and bowls, glass beads and metal objects, including buckles, ammunition and copper manillas. The assemblage, including the ceramics and a marked silver tastevin, provide a site date between 1680 and 1700. The research…
Custom-Made Ceramics, Trans-Atlantic Business Partnerships and Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early Modern Newfoundland
West Country Households, 1500-1700
Essays on the development of the post-medieval house, its contents and decoration. During the last forty years, South-West England has been the focus of some of the most significant work on the early modern house and household in Britain. Its remarkable wealth of vernacular buildings has been the object of muchattention, while the area has also seen productive excavations of early modern household goods, shedding new light on domestic history. Th…
Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde
After the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde Islands in AD 1456 they divided its main island, Santiago, into two governing captaincies. The founding settlement in the south-west, Cidade Velha, soon became the Islands' capital and a thriving trade centre; in contrast, that in the east, Alcatrazes, only lasted as an official seat from 1484-1516 and is held to have 'failed' (see Richter 2015
Spectroscopic characterization of amphorae from the 8th to the 7th c. BCE found at the Almaraz settlement in Almada, Portugal
Material Culture from the Al Hallaniyah Island Early 16th‐Century Portuguese Indiaman Wreck‐site
Excavation of an underwater site on Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman, conducted from 2013 to 2015, confirmed the presence of at least one early 16th-century shipwreck. The location is believed to be where Vincente and Brás de Sodré’s Esmeralda and the São Pedro, both part of Vasco de Gama's second voyage to India, were wrecked in 1503. This article describes the ceramic and other domestic material assemblage. It is a study of the objects used by sailor…
Portable Steam Engines and Traction Engines and Their Use in Rural Areas
In the second half of the 19th century, the area known as Lezíria, in Portugal, started to use portable steam and traction engines in agricultural production. Out of more than a hundred original examples, all of them manufactured in England, little more than a dozen survive today, with different levels of preservation. This article studies these for the first time through an archaeological perspective, identifying their use and importance in diff…
Portuguese Blue‐on‐Blue 16th–17th Century Pottery
Blue‐on‐blue (‘ berettino ’) sherds have appeared in numerous production and consumption archaeological excavations in Lisbon and other archaeological sites in Portugal (dated from the mid‐16th century to the beginning of the 17th century). The abundance of this interesting faience led us to compare it with similar pottery from other well‐known production centres in Italy, namely Liguria (Savona and Albisola), Spain (the Triana kilns) and the Low…
Portuguese Tiles (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century)
Pottery Use and Social Inequality in Mid-18th Century Lisbon
Global post-medieval/historical archaeology
sub-discipline is not only growing, but is maturing, becoming valued by researchers, legislators and the public alike; particularly in the pan-European world
Mobility and Identities
Portuguese Faience and Historical Archaeology
Gomes, Mário Varela
Historical Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula
Portuguese Redwares and Coarse Wares in Historical Archaeology
Globalization, trade, and material culture
In the Early Modern age, Portugal was among the first European countries to engage in overseas trade and colonial ventures. The influx of new people and things rapidly transformed it into a multicultural country in permanent contact with the rest of Europe and the wider world. While we possess a vast amount of knowledge describing the overseas contacts and acquisition of goods from historical documents, in recent years archaeological excavations …
Afro-Portuguese Ivories from Sierra Leone and Nigeria (Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms) in Archaeological Contexts from Southern Portugal
October 01 2020 Afro-Portuguese Ivories from Sierra Leone and Nigeria (Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms) in Archaeological Contexts from Southern Portugal Mário Varela Gomes, Mário Varela Gomes Mário Varela Gomes is an archaeologist and retired professor at NOVA University of Lisbon, a member of the Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes and Academia Portuguesa da História, and sub-director of the Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociěncias NOVA University of Li…
What's that smell? New directions for materials studies
Smellscapes' have become an increasingly popular concept in recent years. Here, the authors argue for a new direction in sensorial archaeology by focusing on the 'smell of things' or the potential information held in the odours of archaeological objects. They offer a case study using early modern earthenware ceramics from Portugal-renowned for the distinctive smell and taste imparted to their contents-to explore the possibility of developing stan…
Cerâmica estampada britânica em Portugal (1780‐1920). Identidade, domesticidade e relações
A cerâmica estampa britânica, cuja produção se iniciou em meados do século XVIII, surge nos contextos arqueológicos portugueses por volta de 1780. A partir daí a sua presença é constante, ainda que de formas diferentes, em diversos sítios. O propósito deste artigo é a realização de uma primeira abordagem ao tema, não só debatendo sobre um tipo de produção que é comum nos contextos arqueológicos em Portugal, mas como ele reflecte quotidianos, comp…
Years of Water Consumption
This paper aims to provide an analysis of the production and consumption of drinking cups in Portugal examining their productive and decorative characteristics and establishing their relation with the ingestion of water between the 15th and 18th centuries. Although drinking cups started to be used much earlier, during the early modern age an international demand for such objects emerges. This fame will take them to places from Northern Europe to …
Formas e sabores
A cultura material associada à produção e consumo de alimentos, nomeadamente a cerâmica, representa o maior volume dos conjuntos arqueológicos exumados em contextos portugueses de Idade Moderna. Panelas, tachos, frigideiras, pratos, tigelas ou salseiras, produzidos em cerâmica comum ou vidrada, testemunham tanto os distintos processos de preparação dos alimentos ou modos de apresentação destes à mesa, como as tecnologias de produção cerâmica disp…
Life on Board Portuguese Ships in the 16th–18th Centuries
Recognizing and defining behaviors is among the most challenging objectives of writing narratives about the past, especially when direct testimony and the evidence of agents’ actions are long lost. Typically, archaeologists look at material remains to reconstruct daily activities, while historians read and interpret documents that articulate how agents interacted with their surroundings. Following an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeolo…
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