Edible land snails are often abundant in late Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological sites
(c. 10000 to c. 6000 BP) throughout the Mediterranean region. This chapter, the first attempt …

Rica seleção de textos e experiências sobre a questão da saúde indígena no Brasil,
originários de discussão em oficina de trabalho ocorrida no V Congresso Brasileiro de …

The emergence of Portugal's Muge Mesolithic, with its characteristic shell middens and
human burials, is widely seen as a response to the formation of a highly diverse terrestrial …

Abstract Peyroteo Stjerna, R. 2016. On Death in the Mesolithic. Or the Mortuary Practices of
the Last Hunter-Gatherers of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula, 7th–6th Millennium BCE …

Although the Muge shellmiddens have been the object of research and excavation for
almost 150 years, data are still scarce and, frequently, problematic. The chronology of the …

The dog has a unique relationship with humans. This is demonstrated by the number of
breeds that exist today and the important role that dogs play in human society. The …

In this book, Katina Lillios provides an up-to-date synthesis of the rich histories of the
peoples who lived on the Iberian Peninsula between 1,400,000 (the Paleolithic) and 3,500 …

Shellmound formation processes are greatly influenced by human inputs associated with an
intensive exploitation of marine and estuarine resources. The complex stratigraphy of …

For most of human history, funerary burial has been unusual. Archaeology shows a shift in
funerary practices in postglacial hunter-gatherers, in parts of Europe during the Late …

Evidence for the first Neolithic population in central Portugal dates to as early as c. 7600 cal
BP. These first farmers were exogenous groups arriving to the Atlantic coast from the …