Claudia CunhaUniversidade Federal do Piauí | UFPI · Departamento de Arqueologia
Claudia Cunha
PhD in Biological Anthropology
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April 2018 - present
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- Professor
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- I teach undergrad & graduate classes in: Bioarchaeology, Dental Anthropology, Zooarchaeology, Ethnoarchaeology and Brazilian Archaeology. My research includes the study of historic and prehistoric human remains from Amazonia and Norheast Brazil.
Education
September 2010 - May 2015
September 2006 - July 2008
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Dental morphological studies are based on the analysis of genetically controlled discrete traits, which are expressed on the morphology of teeth and bones of the oral cavity. Population studies at different geographical and chronological levels have demonstrated that frequency patterns of those traits differ in human populations. The similarities a...
A human femur diaphysis in the form of a burin was excavated from a secondary burial context containing osteological remains and industry in the Archaeological Complex of Perdigões (Portugal). The majority of these evidences are thermo-altered and highly fragmented. Radiocarbon dates for this context place it in the middle 3rd millennium BC. Typolo...
Despite poor conservation of non-adult osteologic remains, their frequency in samples excavated from late Prehistoric sites in the Iberian Peninsula varies between 10.47-58.24%. The objectives of this study were (I) to assess the frequency of sub-adult individuals in the series included in the study, (II) to create a profile for the age at death of...
This paper describes a newly defined nonmetric trait in the human dentition, i.e., Hypotrophic Roots of the Upper Central Incisors (HRUCI). Teeth presenting HRUCI are characterized by abnormally short roots whose crowns exhibit no apparent morphological alterations. The trait was observed in six samples from collective funerary sites in the Iberian...
Resumo: No presente artigo apresentámos os resultados dos estudos realizados na série osteológica humana de Cerro de las Baterías (BT07), um monumento de inumação colectiva do 3º milénio a.C. localizado em La Albuera (Badajoz). Ao longo dos últimos anos, esta amostra tem sido analisada com vista à caracterização demográfica, morfológica e patológic...
This study addresses a funerary context associated to the Marajoara culture which was exhumed from the archaeological site of Cucuíra located in Ponta de Pedras (Pará). Part of the skeleton of a robust adult individual were buried in a ceramic pot as a secondary deposition. Next to the funerary urn for ceramic vases and a human skull articulated wi...
Resumo O Cemitério Judaico de Gurupá, no Pará, esteve em uso entre a segunda metade do século XIX e a primeira metade do século XX como local de sepultamento da comunidade judaica local, estabelecida na região por conta do comércio a retalho que teve seu auge durante o Ciclo da Borracha. Com o fim deste, o êxodo de grande parte das famílias pratica...
O único indivíduo ameríndio (LC1) recuperado do Sítio Arqueológico de Lagoa Cercada, Colônia do Gurguéia – Piauí, Brasil, apresenta condições de preservação excepcionais, mantendo partes do corpo em articulação graças à mumificação natural parcial que sofreu. A Geologia e Climatologia locais, mas também a deposição em gruta de difícil acesso favore...
Bela Vista 5 is a double ditched enclosure near the town of Beringel (Beja, Portugal) from the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE. Eighty-four pits are associated with the enclosure. During archaeological works in 2012, 26 pits and sections of the ditches were excavated. The single pit found within the inner ditch contained the only funerary con...
In 2009, a pit burial dated to the Bronze Age was excavated in Monte do Gato de Cima 3 (Portugal). The purpose of this paper is to describe the pathological absence of the left mandibular condyle noted in an adult male skeleton and to discuss possible diagnoses, including subcondylar fracture, cystic defect, congenital absence, condylar aplasia and...
In bioarchaeology, dental morphology centers on crown and root traits that are either present or absent and, when present, commonly exhibit a range of expression from slight to pronounced (e.g., shovel-shaped incisors, Carabelli's cusp). Twin and family studies show these variables are determined primarily by genetic factors. Numerous population st...
The chapter deals with works of rehabilitation, conservation and restoration of the Convent of St. Francis in Évora Portugal between 2014 and 2015. All areas of the church and all the materials contained in it were intervened, including the building itself which underwent structural rehabilitation. A multidisciplinary team of researchers, technicia...
Agriculture frst reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the
genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in diferent geographic areas of Iberia. In our
study, we focus on the maternal genetic makeup of the Neolithic (~ 5500–3000 BCE), Chalcolithic (~
3000–2200 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (~ 2200–1500...
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Teeth are a very important resource in Biological Anthropology. One of their many uses is the evaluation of dental wear, which can document both masticatory and non-masticatory behavior. The objectives of this work are to 1) present a protocol for scoring evidence of non-masticatory ac...
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The present work deals with the bioarchaeological analysis of the human remains from a sub-adult Inca individual displaying cranial modification. The partially mummified head and neck were integrated to a private collection in Brazil prior to 1973. The paleobiology of this individual was analyzed in terms of age at death estimates, physical anthrop...
This article presents laboratory studies of the archaeological collection from the Sucuriju site which for decades stored at the technical reserve of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. These materials result from Mário Simões' investigations at the Urubu River area, in the municipality of Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brazil, in the late 70's and 80's. Rec...
Resumo: A tradução de termos científicos é necessária para a adequação da "linguagem de especialidade" de cada área científica a cada idioma. Para que a língua portuguesa possa ser usada em comunicação científica e internacional (em países de língua oficial portuguesa e em territórios onde essa língua está amplamente difundida), é necessário encont...
Em bioarqueologia, a morfologia dentária centra-se em variáveis da coroa e da raiz que podem estar presentes ou ausentes e, quando presentes, frequentemente exibem variação na expressão, de ligeira a pronunciada. Estudos em gémeos e famílias demonstram que estes caracteres são predominantemente determinados por fatores genéticos. Numerosos estudos...
The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) is the oldest institution dedicated to research in Natural Sciences in Amazonia. In its century and a half of existence, it has become the hosting institution for the largest collection of human remains and funerary objects in the North and Northeast Brazil. Despite its immense potential, bioanthropological r...
ABSTRACT: The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of White Men, Belém, Pará, Brazil is a colonial archaeological site partially excavated in 1994. The site was used as a religious and funerary space during the 1600 and 1700’s. The access to activities and spaces of the Rosary fraternities in colonial Brazil was segregated. There was some permeability...
Translating scientific terminology is necessary to adapt the “specialized vocabulary” of each scientific field to any language. Linguistic harmony — achieved through glossaries for each scientific field — is necessary for Portuguese to be used as a scientific international communication language (in the countries where Portuguese is the official la...
The human skeletons recovered from the Muge shell middens constitute one of the largest collections in Europe with more than 300 individuals. One of these middens, Cabeço da Amoreira shell mound was identified in 1864 by Carlos Ribeiro. The site produced a total of 47 skeletons during the excavations carried out by Mendes Côrrea, Jean Roche and Rol...
Excavation report on the first archaeological intervention in the site of the Monastery of Bom Jesus de Peniche. The salvage work was only carried out after a substantial part of the site was destroyed by large scale construction. The discovery of Modern stratigraphic layers and structures justified excavations of areas to be impacted by constructi...
This paper presents an up to date perspective on the available data for funerary practices and body manipulations in Perdigões ditched enclosures, as well as their chronological time span (Late Neolithc and Chalcolithic). Specific anthropological information is also provided. These practices are integrated with the overall available data in the con...
EXPANDED ABSTRACT: This book chapter is, in fact, a brief anthropologie de terrain report, so no profound analysis was made on the funerary anthropology and other aspects of the case by then. It presents only the field accounts of the recovery of the human remains from a very unusual individual pit burial. Two aspects draw attention in this case....
Between August and September of 2014, the author carried out the first intervention on two mummified bodies belonging to the tanatological collection of the Chapel of Bones in the Church of St. Francis, Évora Portugal. The origin and chronology of these mummies is not known, although written reports of their presence in the chapel date back to the...
This paper presents an actualize perspective of the available data for funerary practices and body manipulations in Perdigões ditched enclosures, as well as their chronological time span (Lete Neolithci and Chalcolithic). Specific anthropological information is also provided. These practices are integrated with the overall available data in the con...
Brief review of the funerary practices in the regions of Alentejo (Portugal) and Extremadura (Spain) concerning collective funerary contexts.
This note presents the first results on the study of the dental morphology from
the human osteological remains excavated from the Neolithic levels in the burial cave of
Cadaval, Tomar, Portugal. The study aims at the identification and recording of non-metric
dental discrete traits and will be integrated in a broader comparative analysis of samples...
Poster on the dental morphology of individuals from a collective cave burial in Central Portugal. This is an old work but it helps illustrate some of the common feature of the prehistoric dentition from the Tagus basin: sample morphology in what it concerns the lower dentition, but extremely robust and highly complex anterior upper dentition.
ABSTRACT
The archaeological excavation at the Monastery of Bom Jesus in Peniche (Portugal) revealed occupational layers that record the urban evolution of this area of the city from the end of the 1500’s. The most striking features in this context are the constructive evidences of the city dynamics and the abundance of material culture that attest...
Abstract: The set of rock art sites of Pedra Grande is located in Itatim, semiarid region of the state of Bahia, Brazil in a granite Koppje inselberg. This set of sites is divided into three separate nuclei of rock art paintings: Pedra Grande, Torre Pintada and Sítio do Conflito. This article presents a brief description of the rock art within the...
First archaeological excavation in the 1500's convent of Bom Jesus de Penicha, Peniche, Portugal.
ABSTRACT: This report refers to works of salvage archaeology carried out in the construction site of a supermarket in the town of Peniche, central west coast of Portugal, between October 6th and December 30th, 2010. The construction works began without archaeological survey or any other preventive care and resulted in the destruction of a large are...
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O principal objetivo desta tese é iniciar a discussão sobre uma pequena parcela do corpusde arte rupestre do município de Morro do Chapéu, Bahia, Brasil: o Complexo de Sítios do Rodrigão (CSR). Este complexo é marcadamente importante no contexto local e regional pela diversidade e bom estado de conservação da arte. Foram analisadas as caract...
As ecorregiões do Complexo da Chapada Diamantina e a Depressão Sertaneja Meridional do Bioma Caatinga apresentam uma variedade estilística notável, bem como diferenças evidentes entre uma e outra região em termos de produção rupestre. Este artigo apresenta o resultado de observações comparativas em primeira mão de 122 sítios em ambas as ecorregiões...
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Este projeto tem como objetivo principal promover a produção de conhecimento sobre a Biologia Humana e História Populacional do Homem no Nordeste do Brasil, principalmente no que se refere à adaptação deste ao meio ambiente; a afinidade/distância biológica entre populações a nível sincrônico e diacrônico; questões de povoamento regional e sua história populacional, bem como questões demográficas a partir do estudo de remanescentes biológicos humanos. Os resultados desta proposta terão impacto principalmente nas áreas científicas da Arqueologia, Odontologia (e outras Ciências da Saúde), Ciências Forenses e História.
The main goal of the study is to help produce knowledge on Human Biology and population history of Man in Northeast Brazil, mainly in what it concerns (I) the adaptation of human groups to the environment; (II) biological distance/affinity among populations regionally through time; (III) regional population history and (IV) matters related to demographic studies of human archaeological series. Results from the study are expected to have impact on several scientific areas such as Archaeology, Dentistry (and other Health Sciences), Forensics and History.
Fazer o estudo bioarqueológico e ações de conservação de remanescentes humanos provenientes do sítio arqueológico de Lagoa Cercada (Colônia do Gurguéia, Piauí) sob curadoria do Núcleo de Antropologia Pré-histórica (NAP)/Museu de Arqueologia e Paleontologia da Universidade Federal do Piauí com vistas à elaboração do perfil paleobiológico do indivíduo ou indivíduos contidos na amostra de remanescentes humanos do sítio, bem como à análise tafonômica dos mesmos e de evidências do tratamento funerário dispensado aos mesmos.
This study deals with the dental anthropology of Amerindian populations from different chrono-cultural contexts having the collections housed at Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) as target series. Its main objective is the analysis of discrete dental morphology, although other paleobiological information retained by the dental series will also be investigated.
Discrete dental information gathered with the use of the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS) will be employed in the comparative analysis of the series included in order to situate them within the main geogenetic dental complexes, as well as a means to evaluate their biological distances and affinities.
Other non-invasive methods will be employed to collect information on the paleobiology of these individuals expressed on the teeth and bones of the oral cavity of the individuals composing these collections. Among the possible range of data to be collected, we are particularly interested in the oral paleopathology, age-at-death estimates for non-adults and young adults, and cultural aspects (dental modifications, use of the mouth as a ‘third hand´, use of teeth as body decorations and manipulations involving skulls and teeth in unusual ways).
