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Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP) has been classified as a production center of artefacts of diverse types, including prestigious and symbolic items. Among these, this work highlights a set of symbolic artifacts of a lithic nature – the so-called cylindrical idols – that belong to the collection of the Museu Arqueológico do Carmo. In this museum, in ad...
In this article, we present new data on the faunal remains recovered in the most recent excavations of the Chalcolithic settlement of Vila Nova de São Pedro. Building upon previous work, we analyze three additional contexts from area 1 and two from area 3, from test pits 1 and 2. The elements studied have allowed us to add more information to the c...
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the classification of Vila Nova de São Pedro as a national monument, it is presented here a balance of the work done at the site during the 20th and 21st century.
Main topics are the 31 campaigns directed by Afonso do Paço and others and the latest contribution of the VNSP3000 project.
It is here highlight...
Vila Nova de São Pedro was classified as a National Monument in 1971, but the history of this process begins two decades earlier, in 1951, fifteen years after the first archaeological excavation campaign at the site.
This text, covers the historiographical background to this classification, from the beginning of archaeological activity in Vila Nova...
During the 3rd millennium B.C., the communities that occupied the archaeological site of Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja) witnessed a period of remarkable alterations and changes, punctuated by the intensification and diversification of socioeconomic systems. One of the aspects of this economic diversification is centered on the exploitation and c...
Since 2017, new archaeological excavations have been carried out in Vila Nova de São Pedro as part of the VNSP3000 project, 30 years after the last work was conducted at this site.
Seeking to empirically answer the questions underpinning the VNSP3000 project, a group of researchers from various scientific fields have been involved in different stag...
The digitization of Heritage is a task that has gained great importance in recent years, becoming a precise discipline with a wide variety of applications for the study and analysis, as well as for the dissemination of Heritage. To obtain accurate digital models of heritage objects, different techniques are used,
including photogrammetry or laser s...
Durante cinco dias estiveram reunidos em Coimbra cerca de quatro centenas de ar -
queólogos e estudantes de Arqueologia no IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (IV Caap). O congresso decorreu nos dias 22, 23, 24 e 25 de Novembro de 2023, na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, com um programa intenso e diversificado, en...
Since 2016, Vila Nova de São Pedro has been the central theme of the VNSP 3000 research project, which seeks
to gather and analyze all the information related to this site. In addition to the Carmo Archaeological Museum,
has been made contacts with institutions that have archaeological remains from this Chalcolithic settlement
in their collections....
Em 2017, a Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses iniciou um projecto de investigação para o povoado calcolítico de Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal), com o objectivo de valorizar, através do conhecimento científico, um sítio arqueológico com grande destaque no percurso historiográfico da Arqueologia ibérica.
Uma das vertentes do projecto...
Vibrational spectroscopy was applied to study cylindrical engraved bone boxes from the Chalcolithic settlement of Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP, Azambuja, Portugal) which has the largest and richest artefact assemblage of Copper Age Western Iberia. The objectives were to reconstitute manufacturing techniques, determine the role of pyrotechnology in...
In the Iberian Peninsula, Chalcolithic stone architectures have been known since the 19th century. In Portugal, the excavations at Vila Nova de São Pedro and Zambujal confirm what was observed at Leceia and Rotura, defining a canon for Chalcolithic architectures. Recently, the appearance of ditched sites breaks this scenario and demonstrates the ef...
O volume que agora sai a público reúne um conjunto de estudos e reflexões apresentado no Colóquio Internacional Romper Fronteiras, Atravessar Territórios. Identidades e Intercâmbios da Pré-história Recente no Interior Norte Peninsular, que se realizou nos dias 23 e 24 de setembro de 2021, e organizado pelo Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar «C...
Apresentação dos trabalhos desenvolvidos pelo projecto de investigação VNSP3000, em torno do sítio arqueológico de Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal), durante o ano de 2021.
In 2019, the research project “Vila Nova de São Pedro, again in the 3rd millennium – VNSP3000”, carried out another archaeological fieldwork campaign, following the 2017 and 2018 campaigns.This campaign consisted of four different actions: manual and mechanical clearing of new areas (in search for possible future areas for archaeological excavation...
The defense of Heritage is intrinsically linked to the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists (AAP), the oldest association in Portugal and one of the oldest in the world, created in 1863 with the aim of preserving and defending the Architectural and Archaeological Heritage. Over these 158 years, countless battles have been fought and institution...
Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP) is a fortified settlement of Portuguese Estremadura and arguably one of the markers in the historiography of European pre-history. The chronological framing of constructive phases and artefact categories defined at VNSP in the second half of the 20th century was applied to other sites as well. The defensive system with...
Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP) is a fortified settlement of Portuguese Estremadura and arguably one of the markers in the historiography of European prehistory. The chronological framing of constructive phases and artefact categories defined at VNSP in the second half of the 20th century was applied to other sites as well. The defensive system with...
FICHEIRO EPIGRÁFICO (Suplemento de «Conimbriga»), 215
INSCRIÇÕES 768-770.
INSTITUTO DE ARQUEOLOGIA DEPARTAMENTO DE HISTÓRIA, ESTUDOS EUROPEUS, ARQUEOLOGIA E ARTES COIMBRA (2021)
Notícia sobre o III Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses. Disponível em: http://issuu.com/almadan
From the excavations carried out between 1936 and 1967 in the Chalcolithic settlement of Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal), there were recovered more than 500 ceramic elements usually known as “loom weights” with different shapes, dimensions and, in the majority, with decorated surfaces. The iconographic repertoire is quite diverse, with...
In 2017, a team from UNIARQ – School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists presented a research project to the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage, entitled Vila Nova de São Pedro in the 3rd millennium (VNSP3000), with the intention to resume excavations in VNSP. Within the scope o...
The archaeological site of Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja) was discovered in 1936 through the surveys carried out by Hipólito Cabaço. In 1937, the first excavation campaign was led by Eugénio Jalhay and Afonso do Paço. With the death of the first, in 1950, Paço assumed, with occasional collaborations, the direction of the archaeological works on...
Report of all the activities of research project VNSP 3000 carried out in 2018: - fieldwork campaign - scientific research (public presentations and papers) - public archaeology - social media impact
The limestone cylindrical artefacts, traditionally called “cylindrical idols”, appear in several funerary and settlement contexts in the Southwest of the Iberia, during the Calcolithic. Most of them are limestone artifacts and, according to their morphology, they are mostly cylindrical, totally polished, creating smooth surfaces. Some of these obje...
Technical report about the work of VNSP3000 project in 2019
In 2016, the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists (AAP) and UNIARQ – FLUL started a research project “Vila Nova de São Pedro, again in the 3rd millennium – VNSP3000”, for the Chalcolithic settlement of Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal), with the aim of valorizing, through scientific knowledge, an archaeological site with a great promi...
Report of all the activities of research project VNSP 3000 carried out in 2017:
- fieldwork campaign
- scientific research (public presentations and papers)
- public archaeology
- social media impact
The reflection that is presented here seeks to discuss the roles and social functions that the archaeological heritage plays or does not play in Portugal within the framework of the complex relationships that are established between archaeological sites and contemporary societies, using as a case study the Chalcolithic settlement of Vila Nova de S....
This paper presents the first results of the research project “Vila Nova de São Pedro, again in the 3rd millennium», which seeks, in different ways, the construction of a new narrative for the Vila Nova de São Pedro archaeological site, and putting it in the scientific discussion about the Chalcolithic’s social landscapes, from the review of the fi...
In 2016, the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists submitted a research project for the Chalcolithic settle-ment of Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal), with the aim of value, through scientific knowledge, an archaeological site with a great prominence in the historiographic development of the Portuguese archaeology.The purpose of this pa...
A new research project on Vila Nova de São Pedro (Azambuja, Portugal) developed by Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, in 2014, started with a review of all the bibliography published related to the site, using new data to understand the results of old archaeological excavations. The descriptions and graphic information produced throughout the...
The book chapters corresponds to proceedings of the 1st Congress of the Association of the Portuguese Archaeologists.
The 1222 pages reflects the main work that tooked place, in the last years, in the portuguese archaeological sites, covering several issues, diferent cronological phases (from Paleolithic to the Contemporany períod) and other temati...
