Fábio Silva
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3606080 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fábio Silva |
| PRENOMES | Fábio |
| SOBRENOME | Silva |
| ASSINATURA | SILVA F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9872-7117 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 156 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A Memoração Onírica Dos Mortos Na Poesia De Wisława Szymborska
This article aims to explore, through the analysis of the poems “Vida difícil com a memória” (Um amor feliz, 2016), “Enfim a memória” and “Conchavos com os mortos” (Para o meu coração num domingo, 2020), the memoration of the dead and its dreamlike features in the poetry of Polish writer Wisława Szymborska. The analysis is based on different concepts and studies about memory and on the contributions of Jungian analytical psychology focused on the…
A memória do império colonial. Identidades indígenas e híbridas
Este ensaio propõe uma análise crítica das representações de comunidades afrodescendentes no cinema português, partindo do estudo dos arquivos fílmicos coloniais e culminando na análise aprofundada do documentário Li Kê Terra (2010), de Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra e Nuno Baptista. Numa primeira parte, examina-se a forma como o cinema colonial português operou como dispositivo ideológico, contribuindo para a construção de um imaginário raciali…
Swansong Reflections
The present issue is the last issue of JSA the current editorial team will have the pleasure of publishing. This was a difficult decision, but a necessary one. After years trying to increase our team to make this a sustainable effort, with Liz Henty retiring as editor in early 2024, and with increased work commitments of the two remaining editors, it became impossible to maintain the standard, timeliness and support that we have endeavoured to pr…
No easy way from the earth to the stars
The Maltese Temples, built between 3800 and 2400 BC, are unique structures among the prehistoric monuments of Europe. Their consistent architectural style is characterised by straight entrance corridors leading to open courtyards. This led scholars to ask whether there may have been some intention to orientate their entrances in specific, meaningful ways. Previous attempts to answer this question have either proposed explanations without any form…
Think positive! Resolving human motion ambiguity in the presence of disease threat
Recently, approach-avoidance tendencies and visual perception biases have been increasingly studied using bistable point-light walkers (PLWs). Prior studies have found a facing-the-viewer bias when one is primed with general threat stimuli (e.g. angry faces), explained by the "error management theory", as failing to detect a threat as approaching is riskier than the opposite. Importantly, no study has explored how disease threat - linked to the b…
Understanding long-term human ecodynamics through the lens of ecosystem collapse
Most research on long-term human ecodynamics examines changes in the size and structure of human populations, often in relation to climate change. Here we offer an alternative perspective that draws on recent progress in conservation science, examining the causes and consequences of ecosystem collapse. We identify human actions that can cause abrupt transformation of ecosystems, in relation to key mechanisms and underlying theory. Such ecosystem …
Marguerite Duras e a espessura de bruma
O presente manuscrito pretende abordar as múltiplas dimensões da linguagem que comparecem às obras de Marguerite Duras, e como, por meio desse hibridismo de forças constituintes sugerimos a fabricação da composição de planos de experimentação literários forjados no limite do impossível da língua - liame transformador, seu ponto de esgotamento e passagem. É aí que a obra acontece, na afirmação de uma espécie de estética de travessia, realizada atr…
Rock Art and Skyscapes
Rock art is a global phenomenon that serves as a portal into the ancient past.It comes in many forms, ranging from large and spectacular displays of carved or painted rock to single small cupmarks, and, because of its importance, many of the sites where examples occur have been given UNESCO World Heritage listing (for full list see UNESCO 2022, search term "rock art").Whatever its scale, rock art offers glimpses of its prehistoric artists' percep…
Software
Resolution and the detection of cultural dispersals
Inferring episodes of expansion, admixture, diffusion, and/or migration in prehistory is undergoing a resurgence in macro-scale archaeological interpretation. In parallel to this renewed popularity, access to computational tools among archaeologists has seen the use of aggregated radiocarbon datasets for the study of dispersals also increasing. This paper advocates for developing reflexive practice in the application of radiocarbon dates to prehi…
As Mulheres E O Romantismo a Autocrítica De Ana Plácido
a proposta do nosso trabalho é refletir como a estética romântica comparece na obra de Ana Plácido (1831-1895). Contudo, antes apresentaremos uma pequena reflexão sobre as teorias do Romantismo. Por fim, demonstraremos porque Ana Plácido, apesar de adotar em sua escrita esse estilo muito em voga no século XIX, acaba por tecer uma autocrítica a esse tipo de literatura, a qual estaria muito distante da realidade feminina na altura
História, Ensino E Tempo Presente
O texto aqui apresentado busca discutir a importância da memória para o atual contexto do Ensino de História. Desse modo, essa análise está ancorada na perspectiva de que, apesar de não sermos os únicos fiadores do passado, somos os violadores de memória atravessados pela intenção da verdade, ainda que esta, esteja para nós, singularizada na nossa forma de reinvindicação. Para tanto, buscamos discutir a importância da memória para a compreensão d…
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Chris Scarre and Luiz Oosterbeek, Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia
Chris Scarre and Luiz Oosterbeek, Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia: Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2020. Hardback, 242 pp. ISBN 978-1-78570-980-7. £45.00
Skyscapes in the Academy
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Whither Skyscape Archaeology
Whither Skyscape Archaeology
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A probabilistic framework and significance test for the analysis of structural orientations in skyscape archaeology
The assessment of the orientation of built structures is often hampered by the lack of historical or ethnographic records that could be used to support claims of alignments to celestial events such as the rising and settings of sun, moon or stars. This has led to an obsession with surveying large numbers of structures in order to identify patterns in orientation that might betray intentionality - however, no first-principles framework has ever be…
Looking Beyond the Surface
High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography (HRXCT) offers a powerful 3-dimensional, nondestructive and non-invasive diagnostic tool for imaging the external and internal structures of a range of specimens of interest including archaeobotanical remains. HRXCT offers new possibilities in terms of the research questions which may be asked of fragile and valuable archaeological and specifically archaeobotanical material. This technology, although curr…
Unconscious influence over executive control
Recently Published and Forthcoming Books
Skyscapes Beyond the Horizon
Skyscapes Beyond the Horizon
Forthcoming Conferences
Neolithic Connections: Britain, The Channel Islands and FranceThe Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 201914-16th June, 2019, Pomme d'Or Hotel in St Helier, Jerseyhttp://www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/event/europa_conference_2019/ Dark and Light: The role of sunlight and shadow in cultureSeventeenth Annual Sophia Centre Conference13th July, 2019, Lampeter, UKhttp://sophia-project.net/conferences/conference2019/index.php Cultural Astronomy be…
Between China and South Asia
The period from the late third millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD witnesses the first steps towards food globalization in which a significant number of important crops and animals, independently domesticated within China, India, Africa and West Asia, traversed Central Asia greatly increasing Eurasian agricultural diversity. This paper utilizes an archaeobotanical database (AsCAD), to explore evidence for these crop translocatio…
New methods for reconstructing geographical effects on dispersal rates and routes from large-scale radiocarbon databases
We introduce a methodology for reconstructing geographical effects on dispersal and diffusion patterns, using georeferenced archaeological radiocarbon databases. Fast Marching methods for modelling front propagation enable geographical scenarios to be explored regarding barriers, corridors, and favoured and unfavoured habitat types. The use of genetic algorithms as optimal search tools also enables the derivation of new geographical scenarios, an…
Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition
A probabilistic framework and significance test for the analysis of structural orientations in skyscape archaeology
The assessment of the orientation of built structures is often hampered by the lack of historical or ethnographic records that could be used to support claims of alignments to celestial events such as the rising and settings of sun, moon or stars. This has led to an obsession with surveying large numbers of structures in order to identify patterns in orientation that might betray intentionality - however, no first-principles framework has ever be…
A tale of two rice varieties
We model the prehistoric dispersals of two rice varieties, japonica and proto- indica, across Asia using empirical evidence drawn from an archaeobotanical dataset of 400 sites from mainland East, Southeast and South Asia. The approach is based on regression modelling wherein goodness of fit is obtained from log–log quantile regressions of the archaeologically inferred age versus a least-cost distance from the origin(s) of dispersal. The Fast Marc…
Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia
A Tomb with a View
The orientations of European prehistoric structures have been studied independently by landscape archaeologists and archaeoastronomers. Despite their similar interests, the two fields have failed to converge primarily because of their differing epistemologies. This paper argues that archaeology has much to gain by integrating the two fields to provide a fuller and more balanced exploration and understanding of the location and orientation of the …
Understanding long-term human ecodynamics through the lens of ecosystem collapse
Most research on long-term human ecodynamics examines changes in the size and structure of human populations, often in relation to climate change. Here we offer an alternative perspective that draws on recent progress in conservation science, examining the causes and consequences of ecosystem collapse. We identify human actions that can cause abrupt transformation of ecosystems, in relation to key mechanisms and underlying theory. Such ecosystem …
Software
Modeling Spatial Innovation Diffusion from Radiocarbon Dates and Regression Residuals
This article introduces a method of exploratory analysis of the geographical factors influencing large-scale innovation diffusion, and illustrates its application to the case of early pottery dispersal in the Old World. Regression techniques are used to identify broad-scale spatiotemporal trends in the innovation's first occurrence, and regression residuals are then analyzed to identify geographical variation (climate, biomes) that may have influ…
Looking Beyond the Surface
High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography (HRXCT) offers a powerful 3-dimensional, nondestructive and non-invasive diagnostic tool for imaging the external and internal structures of a range of specimens of interest including archaeobotanical remains. HRXCT offers new possibilities in terms of the research questions which may be asked of fragile and valuable archaeological and specifically archaeobotanical material. This technology, although curr…
The Planning and Orientation of the Rego da Murta Dolmens (Alvaiázere, Portugal)
During the excavation of Rego da Murta Dolmen I, a structure belonging to a megalithic cluster in central Portugal, a number of small sub-quadrangular quartzite stones were found embedded within a layer below that of the deepest orthostat. In this paper, we report on these findings and highlight three key features of these small stones, namely their location relative to the dolmen’s plan, the distances between them, and their orientations. We sug…
Inferring Alignments I
Using computer simulations, this paper explores and quantifies the accuracy and precision of two approaches to the statistical inference of the most likely targets of a set of structural orientations. It discusses the curvigram method (also known as kernel density estimation or summed probability distribution) in wide currency in archaeoastronomy, and introduces the largely unutilised maximum likelihood (ML) method, which has popularity in other …
A Tomb with a View
The orientations of European prehistoric structures have been studied independently by landscape archaeologists and archaeoastronomers. Despite their similar interests, the two fields have failed to converge primarily because of their differing epistemologies. This paper argues that archaeology has much to gain by integrating the two fields to provide a fuller and more balanced exploration and understanding of the location and orientation of the …
New methods for reconstructing geographical effects on dispersal rates and routes from large-scale radiocarbon databases
We introduce a methodology for reconstructing geographical effects on dispersal and diffusion patterns, using georeferenced archaeological radiocarbon databases. Fast Marching methods for modelling front propagation enable geographical scenarios to be explored regarding barriers, corridors, and favoured and unfavoured habitat types. The use of genetic algorithms as optimal search tools also enables the derivation of new geographical scenarios, an…
Modeling Spatial Innovation Diffusion from Radiocarbon Dates and Regression Residuals
This article introduces a method of exploratory analysis of the geographical factors influencing large-scale innovation diffusion, and illustrates its application to the case of early pottery dispersal in the Old World. Regression techniques are used to identify broad-scale spatiotemporal trends in the innovation's first occurrence, and regression residuals are then analyzed to identify geographical variation (climate, biomes) that may have influ…
"Once Upon a Time…"
This paper addresses the issue of congruence between archaeological narrative and folktale, and tentatively explores its implications for our understanding of the deep past, as well as of present-day folklore. Similarities between a folktale that explains the name of Serra da Estrela, a mountain range in central Portugal, and the material record of Neolithic Iberian dolmen builders of the nearby Mondego valley suggest that the prehistoric reality…
Skyscapes
Books
Books
Forthcoming Conferences
Between China and South Asia
The period from the late third millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD witnesses the first steps towards food globalization in which a significant number of important crops and animals, independently domesticated within China, India, Africa and West Asia, traversed Central Asia greatly increasing Eurasian agricultural diversity. This paper utilizes an archaeobotanical database (AsCAD), to explore evidence for these crop translocatio…
Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition
Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia
Inferring Alignments I
Using computer simulations, this paper explores and quantifies the accuracy and precision of two approaches to the statistical inference of the most likely targets of a set of structural orientations. It discusses the curvigram method (also known as kernel density estimation or summed probability distribution) in wide currency in archaeoastronomy, and introduces the largely unutilised maximum likelihood (ML) method, which has popularity in other …
Supporting Information for Inferring Alignments I
Inferring Alignments I
Using computer simulations, this paper explores and quantifies the accuracy and precision of two approaches to the statistical inference of the most likely targets of a set of structural orientations. It discusses the curvigram method (also known as kernel density estimation or summed probability distribution) in wide currency in archaeoastronomy, and introduces the largely unutilised maximum likelihood (ML) method, which has popularity in other …
Unconscious influence over executive control
Recently Published and Forthcoming Books
Skyscapes Beyond the Horizon
Skyscapes Beyond the Horizon
Forthcoming Conferences
Neolithic Connections: Britain, The Channel Islands and FranceThe Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 201914-16th June, 2019, Pomme d'Or Hotel in St Helier, Jerseyhttp://www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/event/europa_conference_2019/ Dark and Light: The role of sunlight and shadow in cultureSeventeenth Annual Sophia Centre Conference13th July, 2019, Lampeter, UKhttp://sophia-project.net/conferences/conference2019/index.php Cultural Astronomy be…
A tale of two rice varieties
We model the prehistoric dispersals of two rice varieties, japonica and proto- indica, across Asia using empirical evidence drawn from an archaeobotanical dataset of 400 sites from mainland East, Southeast and South Asia. The approach is based on regression modelling wherein goodness of fit is obtained from log–log quantile regressions of the archaeologically inferred age versus a least-cost distance from the origin(s) of dispersal. The Fast Marc…
The Planning and Orientation of the Rego da Murta Dolmens (Alvaiázere, Portugal)
During the excavation of Rego da Murta Dolmen I, a structure belonging to a megalithic cluster in central Portugal, a number of small sub-quadrangular quartzite stones were found embedded within a layer below that of the deepest orthostat. In this paper, we report on these findings and highlight three key features of these small stones, namely their location relative to the dolmen’s plan, the distances between them, and their orientations. We sug…
Looking Beyond the Surface
High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography (HRXCT) offers a powerful 3-dimensional, nondestructive and non-invasive diagnostic tool for imaging the external and internal structures of a range of specimens of interest including archaeobotanical remains. HRXCT offers new possibilities in terms of the research questions which may be asked of fragile and valuable archaeological and specifically archaeobotanical material. This technology, although curr…
Whither Skyscape Archaeology
Whither Skyscape Archaeology
Books
A probabilistic framework and significance test for the analysis of structural orientations in skyscape archaeology
The assessment of the orientation of built structures is often hampered by the lack of historical or ethnographic records that could be used to support claims of alignments to celestial events such as the rising and settings of sun, moon or stars. This has led to an obsession with surveying large numbers of structures in order to identify patterns in orientation that might betray intentionality - however, no first-principles framework has ever be…
Resolution and the detection of cultural dispersals
Inferring episodes of expansion, admixture, diffusion, and/or migration in prehistory is undergoing a resurgence in macro-scale archaeological interpretation. In parallel to this renewed popularity, access to computational tools among archaeologists has seen the use of aggregated radiocarbon datasets for the study of dispersals also increasing. This paper advocates for developing reflexive practice in the application of radiocarbon dates to prehi…
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