Torre Velha 12 is located in Serpa (Beja) and was excavated and directed by two of the authors (LB and SG), during an emergency intervention within the Alqueva Project. This site is characterized by negative structures filled with pottery sherds and other materials dating to the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. The aim of this paper is to publish the study of the faunal remains dated from Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE). The faunal assemblage is small and comes from non-funerary pits and from funerary hypogea. Other than a bone artefact and an undetermined shell fragment, all of the remains integrated in the pits were classified as mammals. Sheep/goat is was frequently found while other species such as cattle and swines had lower frequencies. Fragments of cattle limbs are the only faunal remains associated with human burials and reveal a clear taxonomical and anatomical pattern that may be an indicator of a careful and structured anthropogenic behavior. The aim of this paper is to understand the social relationship between animals and the Bronze Age communities.
Abstract:The Portuguese National Health Line, LS24, is an initiative of the Portuguese Health Ministry which seeks to improve accessibility to health care and to rationalize the use of existing resources by directing users to the most appropriate institutions of the national public health services. This study aims to describe and evaluate the use of LS24. Since for LS24 data, the location attribute is an important source of information to describe its use, this study analyses the number of calls received, at a municipal level, under two different spatial econometric approaches. This analysis is important for future development of decision support indicators in a hospital context, based on the economic impact of the use of this health line. Considering the discrete nature of data, the number of calls to LS24 in each municipality is better modelled by a Poisson model, with some possible covariates: demographic, socio-economic information, characteristics of the Portuguese health system and development indicators. In order to explain model spatial variability, the data autocorrelation can be explained in a Bayesian setting through different hierarchical log-Poisson regression models. A different approach uses an autoregressive methodology, also for count data. A log-Poisson model with a spatial lag autocorrelation component is further considered, better framed under a Bayesian paradigm. With this empirical study we find strong evidence for a spatial structure in the data and obtain similar conclusions with both perspectives of the analysis. This supports the view that the addition of a spatial structure to the model improves estimation, even in the case where some relevant covariates have been included.
Neste texto analisamos a tradição de construção em negativo durante a Pré-história Recente no Sul de Portugal. Os vestígios que estudamos foram identificados no âmbito de intervenções realizadas a propósito da execução do Bloco de Rega de Brinches-Enxoé (Serpa). Num primeiro momento, discutimos as possibilidades de, na base empírica decorrente de tais intervenções, reconhecer uma unidade de estudo cuja inteligibilidade possa corresponder-se com o estudo da monumentalização da paisagem durante a Pré-história Recente. Uma vez delineada a unidade de estudo, procedemos à sua apresentação tendo em conta a morfologia, a distribuição espacial, o enquadramento cronológico e os enchimentos das estruturas. Por fim, propomos que se problematize estes vestígios como formalizações materiais do entrelaçamento de práticas de arquitetura e de práticas de arquivo, no qual são negociados o(s) horizonte(s) sentido que sustentam a construção de paisagens monumentais. Architecture and Archive. Towards an understanding of the Late Prehistory negative structures from the hills between Barranco da Morgadinha and Barranco da Laje (Serpa, Beja – South of Portugal) - This article focus on the negative construction tradition of the Late Prehistory Prehistoric in the South of Portugal. The features in study were identified during the archaeological interventions realized during the construction of the Bloco de Rega de Brinches-Enxoé (Serpa). Firstly, we discuss the possibilities to use the empirical basis produced in such interventions to formulate a unit of study, whose intelligibility may answer to the discussion of the monumentalization of the landscape during Late Prehistory. After limiting the unit of study, we present the features regarding their morphology, spatial distribution, chronology and the structures fills. Finally, we propose a discussion of these structures as material configurations of an interweaving of architecture and archive practices in which are negotiated the horizon(s) of meaning holding the construction of monumental landscapes.
Quartz has traditionally been regarded as a raw material of poor knapping quality. Indeed, the structure of this mineral determines the presence of cleavage planes which generate fractures and influence débitage. The fact that it is naturally available in regions where there is no flint or silcrete, however, resulted in its frequent exploitation by the Palaeolithic human communities that inhabited the Portuguese territory. The present research focuses on comparative data on the use of quartz in the Côa Valley (Fariseu and Cardina) and the Vouga Valley (Vau and Rôdo) sites during the Gravettian, Magdalenian and Azilian. The volume of data on the two areas being compared is uneven and we have little information on the technical tradition and functionality of the Vouga sites. There is, however, enough information to compare and identify, in these archaeological sites located in two different regions, the same conceptual scheme inherent to the chaîne opératoire applied to the different types of quartz.
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