Maria João Valente
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 91308 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maria João Valente |
| PRENOMES | Maria João |
| SOBRENOME | Valente |
| ASSINATURA | VALENTE M J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Algarve |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6137-5995 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Animal husbandry and hunting in the Roman vicus maritimus of Cerro da Vila (Southern Portugal)
This study presents a zooarchaeological analysis of the vertebrate faunal assemblage from the Roman vicus maritimus of Cerro da Vila, southern Lusitania (modern Algarve, Portugal), with occupation spanning the 1st to 5th centuries CE. The site functioned as a diversified coastal hub integrating intensive fish-processing, agricultural production, and maritime trade, yet the role of animal exploitation in sustaining this economy has hitherto remain…
From sea to land
Six centuries of marine and terrestrial invertebrate use in inland Algarve. • Oyster specialisation marks dietary change from the 14th century onwards. • Terrestrial gastropods show evidence of consumption, particularly in Medieval Islamic times. • Preservation indices used to assess recovery bias and depositional variation. • Stable clam harvesting contrasts with variable cockle procurement patterns. «Casa das Bicas», located in the historic cen…
Origins of raw milk consumption in the Iberian Peninsula and Portuguese territory
In Europe, lactose tolerance after weaning (lactase persistence – LP) is determined by a single mutation in the MCM6 gene. The timing and mode of the emergence of raw milk consumption in Portuguese territory have not been addressed, despite its significance in Portuguese subsistence and culinary tradition. To identify the earliest instance of the LP mutation, we examined this locus in ancient DNA (aDNA) data from Iberian individuals spanning from…
The Impact of Social, Economic and Political Change in Linear and Appositional Growth of Children from the Medieval Islamic and Christian Periods of the Algarve, Portugal
Entre mouros e cristãos
O principal objetivo deste trabalho é a caracterização das atividades pecuárias e cinegéticas praticadas no Castelo de Aracena, entre os séculos X e XVI. Os resultados mostram o predomínio dos animais domésticos: porcos, cabra, ovelha e bovinos, mas também equídeos e aves de capoeira. A presença de animais como o veado e o javali sugere que a caça seria uma atividade complementar. Foram ainda identificados o coelho e vários carnívoros. Os vestígi…
Mixture Risk Assessment of Complex Real-Life Mixtures—The Panoramix Project
Humans are involuntarily exposed to hundreds of chemicals that either contaminate our environment and food or are added intentionally to our daily products. These complex mixtures of chemicals may pose a risk to human health. One of the goals of the European Union's Green Deal and zero-pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment is to tackle the existent gaps in chemical mixture risk assessment by providing scientific grounds that support the…
Your horse is a donkey! Identifying domesticated equids from Western Iberia using collagen fingerprinting
Skeletal remains of two equid species, Equus caballus (horse) and Equus asinus (donkey), have been found in archaeological contexts throughout Iberia since the Palaeolithic and Chalcolithic periods, respectively. These two species play different economic and cultural roles, and therefore it is important to be able to distinguish between the two species to better understand their relative importance in the past human societies. The most reliable m…
Economy and subsistence in the Early Neolithic site of Carrascal (Oeiras, Portugal)
Early Neolithic settlements in southwestern Iberia are rare and, so far, only a few faunal assemblages, mostly from Portuguese Estremadura, have been analysed. The zooarchae- ological studies suggest that animal husbandry was introduced to the area by Neolithic marine settlers originating from the Mediterranean and that domesticated animal herding, particularly sheep, was of outmost importance to the human communities. Located in lower Estremadur…
Beyond faith
Objectives During the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The implications of changing ruling powers for urban food systems and individual diets in medieval Portugal is poorly understood. This study aimed to elucidate the dietary impact of the Islamic and Christian conquests. Materials and Methods Radiocarbon dating, peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) and…
Southern Portugal Animal Exploitation Systems
Zooarchaeological studies in Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Portugal have witnessed important developments in recent years, even if still largely based on taxonomic analyses. Other approaches depend heavily on the abundance and preservation conditions of faunal collections, which are often inadequate; such limitation prevents in-depth studies of animal exploitation strategies (e.g. the ‘Secondary Products Revolution’). Despite these…
Multi-isotope approaches to the Neolithic cemetery-cave of Bom Santo (Lisbon)
Stable isotope and multi-analytical investigation of Monte da Cegonha
Hunter-herders in the limestone massif of Estremadura
The Pena d’Água Rock-shelter (Torres Novas, Portugal) was excavated in 1992–2000, revealing a long stratigraphic and cultural sequence including Middle Neolithic occupations. A preliminary study on its fauna was published by Valente (1998) based on the 1992–1994 material, but the 1997–2000 campaigns remained unstudied. The aim of this study is to present the full fauna analysis of the layer Db, dated from the earlier phases of that period. Like o…
Zooarchaeology in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Southern Portugal
Our knowledge of South Portugal's Neolithic and Chalcolithic subsistence strategies is limited by scarce palaeobotanical evidence (restricted to the latter period) and irregular zooarchaeological data. This framework is also affected by post-depositional biases, unevenly represented sites throughout the territory (i.e. under/over representation of sites according to their functions) and published data with disparate objectives and analytic method…
The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition on the Costa Vicentina, Portugal
A quantificação faunística
A quantificação faunística que, de simples comparação das espécies animais presentes, passou a incluir a medição da abundância relativa das espécies em cada conjunto faunístico, tem sido nos últimos anos uma das áreas mais discutidas da arqueozoologia. Neste trabalho pretende-se demonstrar como a quantificação faunística (na vertente dos animais vertebrados) é actualmente realizada, que parâmetros e unidades utiliza, a que perguntas procura respo…
Zooarchaeology in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Southern Portugal
Our knowledge of South Portugal's Neolithic and Chalcolithic subsistence strategies is limited by scarce palaeobotanical evidence (restricted to the latter period) and irregular zooarchaeological data. This framework is also affected by post-depositional biases, unevenly represented sites throughout the territory (i.e. under/over representation of sites according to their functions) and published data with disparate objectives and analytic method…
The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition on the Costa Vicentina, Portugal
Multi-isotope approaches to the Neolithic cemetery-cave of Bom Santo (Lisbon)
Stable isotope and multi-analytical investigation of Monte da Cegonha
Your horse is a donkey! Identifying domesticated equids from Western Iberia using collagen fingerprinting
Skeletal remains of two equid species, Equus caballus (horse) and Equus asinus (donkey), have been found in archaeological contexts throughout Iberia since the Palaeolithic and Chalcolithic periods, respectively. These two species play different economic and cultural roles, and therefore it is important to be able to distinguish between the two species to better understand their relative importance in the past human societies. The most reliable m…
Beyond faith
Objectives During the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The implications of changing ruling powers for urban food systems and individual diets in medieval Portugal is poorly understood. This study aimed to elucidate the dietary impact of the Islamic and Christian conquests. Materials and Methods Radiocarbon dating, peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) and…
Southern Portugal Animal Exploitation Systems
Zooarchaeological studies in Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Portugal have witnessed important developments in recent years, even if still largely based on taxonomic analyses. Other approaches depend heavily on the abundance and preservation conditions of faunal collections, which are often inadequate; such limitation prevents in-depth studies of animal exploitation strategies (e.g. the ‘Secondary Products Revolution’). Despite these…
Hunter-herders in the limestone massif of Estremadura
The Pena d’Água Rock-shelter (Torres Novas, Portugal) was excavated in 1992–2000, revealing a long stratigraphic and cultural sequence including Middle Neolithic occupations. A preliminary study on its fauna was published by Valente (1998) based on the 1992–1994 material, but the 1997–2000 campaigns remained unstudied. The aim of this study is to present the full fauna analysis of the layer Db, dated from the earlier phases of that period. Like o…
A quantificação faunística
A quantificação faunística que, de simples comparação das espécies animais presentes, passou a incluir a medição da abundância relativa das espécies em cada conjunto faunístico, tem sido nos últimos anos uma das áreas mais discutidas da arqueozoologia. Neste trabalho pretende-se demonstrar como a quantificação faunística (na vertente dos animais vertebrados) é actualmente realizada, que parâmetros e unidades utiliza, a que perguntas procura respo…
The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition on the Costa Vicentina, Portugal
Zooarchaeology in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Southern Portugal
Our knowledge of South Portugal's Neolithic and Chalcolithic subsistence strategies is limited by scarce palaeobotanical evidence (restricted to the latter period) and irregular zooarchaeological data. This framework is also affected by post-depositional biases, unevenly represented sites throughout the territory (i.e. under/over representation of sites according to their functions) and published data with disparate objectives and analytic method…
Hunter-herders in the limestone massif of Estremadura
The Pena d’Água Rock-shelter (Torres Novas, Portugal) was excavated in 1992–2000, revealing a long stratigraphic and cultural sequence including Middle Neolithic occupations. A preliminary study on its fauna was published by Valente (1998) based on the 1992–1994 material, but the 1997–2000 campaigns remained unstudied. The aim of this study is to present the full fauna analysis of the layer Db, dated from the earlier phases of that period. Like o…
Stable isotope and multi-analytical investigation of Monte da Cegonha
Southern Portugal Animal Exploitation Systems
Zooarchaeological studies in Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Portugal have witnessed important developments in recent years, even if still largely based on taxonomic analyses. Other approaches depend heavily on the abundance and preservation conditions of faunal collections, which are often inadequate; such limitation prevents in-depth studies of animal exploitation strategies (e.g. the ‘Secondary Products Revolution’). Despite these…
Multi-isotope approaches to the Neolithic cemetery-cave of Bom Santo (Lisbon)
Economy and subsistence in the Early Neolithic site of Carrascal (Oeiras, Portugal)
Early Neolithic settlements in southwestern Iberia are rare and, so far, only a few faunal assemblages, mostly from Portuguese Estremadura, have been analysed. The zooarchae- ological studies suggest that animal husbandry was introduced to the area by Neolithic marine settlers originating from the Mediterranean and that domesticated animal herding, particularly sheep, was of outmost importance to the human communities. Located in lower Estremadur…
Beyond faith
Objectives During the Middle Ages, Portugal witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and religious changes under transitioning religious political rule. The implications of changing ruling powers for urban food systems and individual diets in medieval Portugal is poorly understood. This study aimed to elucidate the dietary impact of the Islamic and Christian conquests. Materials and Methods Radiocarbon dating, peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) and…
Entre mouros e cristãos
O principal objetivo deste trabalho é a caracterização das atividades pecuárias e cinegéticas praticadas no Castelo de Aracena, entre os séculos X e XVI. Os resultados mostram o predomínio dos animais domésticos: porcos, cabra, ovelha e bovinos, mas também equídeos e aves de capoeira. A presença de animais como o veado e o javali sugere que a caça seria uma atividade complementar. Foram ainda identificados o coelho e vários carnívoros. Os vestígi…
Mixture Risk Assessment of Complex Real-Life Mixtures—The Panoramix Project
Humans are involuntarily exposed to hundreds of chemicals that either contaminate our environment and food or are added intentionally to our daily products. These complex mixtures of chemicals may pose a risk to human health. One of the goals of the European Union's Green Deal and zero-pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment is to tackle the existent gaps in chemical mixture risk assessment by providing scientific grounds that support the…
Your horse is a donkey! Identifying domesticated equids from Western Iberia using collagen fingerprinting
Skeletal remains of two equid species, Equus caballus (horse) and Equus asinus (donkey), have been found in archaeological contexts throughout Iberia since the Palaeolithic and Chalcolithic periods, respectively. These two species play different economic and cultural roles, and therefore it is important to be able to distinguish between the two species to better understand their relative importance in the past human societies. The most reliable m…
Origins of raw milk consumption in the Iberian Peninsula and Portuguese territory
In Europe, lactose tolerance after weaning (lactase persistence – LP) is determined by a single mutation in the MCM6 gene. The timing and mode of the emergence of raw milk consumption in Portuguese territory have not been addressed, despite its significance in Portuguese subsistence and culinary tradition. To identify the earliest instance of the LP mutation, we examined this locus in ancient DNA (aDNA) data from Iberian individuals spanning from…
The Impact of Social, Economic and Political Change in Linear and Appositional Growth of Children from the Medieval Islamic and Christian Periods of the Algarve, Portugal
Animal husbandry and hunting in the Roman vicus maritimus of Cerro da Vila (Southern Portugal)
This study presents a zooarchaeological analysis of the vertebrate faunal assemblage from the Roman vicus maritimus of Cerro da Vila, southern Lusitania (modern Algarve, Portugal), with occupation spanning the 1st to 5th centuries CE. The site functioned as a diversified coastal hub integrating intensive fish-processing, agricultural production, and maritime trade, yet the role of animal exploitation in sustaining this economy has hitherto remain…
From sea to land
Six centuries of marine and terrestrial invertebrate use in inland Algarve. • Oyster specialisation marks dietary change from the 14th century onwards. • Terrestrial gastropods show evidence of consumption, particularly in Medieval Islamic times. • Preservation indices used to assess recovery bias and depositional variation. • Stable clam harvesting contrasts with variable cockle procurement patterns. «Casa das Bicas», located in the historic cen…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Archaeology (8 obras) · Ecology (7 obras) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (5 obras) · Subsistence agriculture (5 obras) · Zooarchaeology (5 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 obras) · Taphonomy (4 obras)