Luiz Oosterbeek

Polytechnic Institute of Tomar · Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar

Research and development activities of the Geoscu«iences Center 2018-2024

The Ocreza Valley (Lower Tejo River), central Portugal provides evidence for a new Upper Palaeolithic rock art complex in western Iberia. Recently discovered panels, comprising several engraved zoomorphic figures that includes an auroch (Panel OCR20), another with a horse figure (Panel OCR22) and a bolder with another engraved auroch figure (Panel...

The way in which the past can be presented, simulated, re-enacted, re-lived and experienced in archaeology festivals isexamined here. For this purpose, the “Festival of Prehistory and Traditional Knowledge” in Mação was chosen as a casestudy. It is argued that these festivals are places of learning and knowledge transfer, and heritage-oriented tour...

The west of the Iberian Peninsula is an important region for the knowledge of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic because it was where human dispersal westwards in Eurasia ended. At the same time, it was an ecological refuge whose diversity of resources and landscapes allowed for cultural idiosyncrasies. Although research on the Palaeolithic in Portu...

This text arises from a survey of a thesis that makes use of social cartography. The reflection on social cartography is justified mainly because it considers the environmental perception of the members of social movements. Besides encourages the active participation of community members, to transform and guide collective policies and actions, impl...

Although archaeological tourism celebrates the cultural richness of a country or a region’s history, a question rises – how can one design and communicate an archaeological brand with success for rural areas? Our ongoing project called TURARQ is trying to answer this question. This project seeks to address an observed gap in the literature – h...

Apresentação do projeto TURARQ, que tem como objetivo principal promover o turismo científi co e cultural em territórios de baixa densidade do Médio Tejo português (municípios de Abrantes, Constância, Mação, Tomar e Vila Nova da Barquinha), gerando riqueza e novos empregos, apostando no usufruto presencial do património arqueológico e nos meios de...

The evaluation and characterization of the Holocene deposits at the archaeological site of Amoreira by analysing their stratigraphies from a micro-morphological perspective.

The Morgado Superior Rock Shelter is located near the city of Tomar, in Central Portugal. This site presents important funerary contexts that according to published information encompass the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. Other non-funerary uses have not yet been characterised but were briefly suggested. A faunal sample of the 1988 and 201...

New Call for application - International master in Quaternary and Prehistory

The International Journal Arts | Culture | Design is a digital open access and peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal, published by the Design, Interior Architecture and Audiovisual Documentation lab of the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture of the University of West Attica Greece in cooperation with the: the National University of Arts Buchares...

The Morgado superior rock shelter is located near the city of Tomar, in Central Portugal. This site presents important funerary contexts that according to published information encompass the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age. Other non-funerary uses are not yet characterized but were briefly suggested. A faunal sample of the 1988 and 2012 int...

This book wants to enrich the current discussion on geoethics and global ethics within the geoscience and humanities communities, providing new contents and insights elaborated by scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds.

Ethics is often the distillation of cultural and social tradition, including religious beliefs. Prominent cultural differences are frequently due to geographic and environmental influences which in turn may be reflected in ethical norms. Materialities interplay with understandings and beliefs, since human adaptive strategies are conditioned by the...

This book contributes to the current discussion on geoethics and global ethics within the geoscience and humanities communities. It provides new content and insights into developing convergent human actions in response to global anthropogenic changes, based on perspectives that make it possible to combine geoscience knowledge with humanities and so...

The thesis of W. Benjamin on the concept of History echoes as almost an anti-postmodernism manifesto: the approach to the past is structured through images, not narratives. Indeed, in the tension between history (the universal past rooted in agreed replicable methodologies for a human archetype) and memory (the ego or sociocentric past rooted in in...

The study of leporid accumulations has been widely developed in the last decades. Actualistic research allowed for a better understanding of accumulations by humans, different mammals and raptors. Western Europe archaeological records are rich in leporid accumulations of anthropogenic and other origins (intrusive and exogenous). Cadaval and Nossa S...

POST-GRADUATION: Experimental Archaeology in Prehistory and Protohistory

A core problem of contemporary society is rooted in the educational system and the divides created between the humanities and sciences that have prevented integrated reasoning. This problem affects society at large and has severely impacted the mindset of leadership, precluding in-depth debates involving citizens that lack an understanding of the b...

In recent years, the use of a micromorphological method has proven to be a veritable tool to assess archaeological records that are beyond the naked eye. This technique allows you to study records and data that can contribute to and improve the archaeological research and investigations. Aside from a wide range of visible artefacts that can be stud...

In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations, lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over the past 10,000 years1. Although the selection of LP and the consumption of prehistoric milk must be linked, considerable uncertainty remains concerning their spatiotemporal configu...

In the middle Tagus, which defines as a sort of ecotonal area where almost all geological substrata that exist in western Iberia also occur, within a range around 70 kilometres, one may now recognise a diversity of strategies undertook by various human groups, mostly oriented toward the intensification of the use of specific resources. While the re...

O E-book, Patrimônio cultural, direito e meio ambiente: arqueologia e turismo sustentável (volume IV), que ora apresentamos à comunidade científica e geral, é o resultado da parceria entre o Grupo de Pesquisa Arqueologia e Gestão Integrada do Território – Laboratório de Arqueologia Pedro Ignácio Schmitz da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (L...

The Mesolithic faunal assemblage from Cueva de Los Postes (Badajoz, Spain) is presented and discussed. The faunal remains from different stratigraphic units spatially associated with the Mesolithic funerary use of the cave or preceded them were analysed. The zooarchaeological record is dominated by leporids, generally rabbit but also hare, scarce m...

O presente trabalho apresenta novos contributos para a compreensão dos aspectos biológicos e culturais da população que ergueu e utilizou o Túmulo Megalítico de Santa Rita, localizado no município de Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal. Os ossos estudados são provenientes da câmara funerária, que foi utilizada como espaço funerário secundário e co...

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Daniel Arsenault initially came to Mação in Portugal for our annual ‘Rock Art Expedition – understanding the painted form’ programme which was organized by the Prehistoric Rock Art Museum and the Earth and Memory Institute (ITM) in Mação. The programme was headed by Sara Garcês and George Nash and ran between 24th July and 30th July 2015. It includ...

On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an Agenda for Sustainable Development establishing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030, on which states, civil society, and the private sector are called to contribute. In this context, tourism, which is based on billions of encounters between people of div...

The current article aims to explore the management of archaeological resources in the valleys of Tejo and Ocreza rivers, Portugal, based on research, communication, and education experiences developed at Tejo Valley Prehistoric and Sacred Art Museum, Mação County, Portugal. The article gives temporal emphasis on recent years, in the 21st century, w...

Resumo: Qual pode ser o lugar da arqueologia e dos arqueólogos na sociedade actual? A resposta que desde há quase meio século, nos vários sectores de actividade, se vem tentando, é de pensar globalmente embora agindo localmente. Pensamos que é tempo de alterar essa equação, que não tem em conta a matriz de redes que se consolidou nos últimos anos....

Quality in cultural heritage attractions is mainly approached from the visitors' satisfaction perspective, and the literature does not contain a clear definition of quality in the management of cultural heritage sites open to the public. The present study aims to reframe this trend. By way of theoretical contribution, we propose a definition of qua...

O presente texto parte de uma reflexão de um conjunto de técnicos envolvidos, há mais de duas décadas, num trabalho museológico em rede. Discute-se para que podem e devem servir os museus, bem como qual a nossa opinião sobre o ponto da situação e rumos desejáveis no Médio Tejo. O texto conclui com alguns exemplos de projetos em rede que se podem al...

This article presents the results of the first dedicated study of organic residues in Portugal, extracted from pottery excavated from Anta 1 de Val da Laje passage grave. We fully exploit the organic residue extract, to obtain information regarding the diet of the people and their relationship with the environment, the socio-economic aspects of an...

The caves of Escoural and Maltravieso are the only caves with Palaeolithic rock art in the Southwest Peninsula. These two contexts are similar in their geological characteristics, circumstances of their discoveries, state of conservation, location outside the preferential territorial scope of Palaeolithic art and in the absence of a tradition of sc...

This article presents the results of the construction of an Archaeological Predictive Spatial Model based on the analysis of a set of variables. The main objective of this study is to identify areas of archaeological potential for archaeological exploration, for the Médio Tejo Region. This areas are more likely to occur in new sites, through the ap...

O artigo reflete sobre a combinação de dois conceitos: patrimônio industrial e paisagem cultural. Dessa maneira, propõe-se a análise de ações de gestão integrada e sustentável do patrimônio industrial, no sentido de unificar as políticas públicas de preservação do patrimônio cultural inerente ao processo de industrialização com as de planejamento u...

The growing divide between sciences and humanities has led, in the last decades, to their global weakening, leading to a pragmatic empire of technological solutions deprived from meaning and global reasoning. In parallel, the source o many current disruptive processes is the incapacity of understanding the implications of the global merger of econo...

The growing divide between sciences and humanities has led, in the last decades, to their global weakening, leading to a pragmatic empire of technological solutions deprived from meaning and global reasoning. In parallel, the source o many current disruptive processes is the incapacity of understanding the implications of the global merger of econo...

Maçào: Novas investigaçòes, novas abordagens, novos dados. DAVIDE DELFINO LUIZ OOSTERBEEK FERNANDO COIMBRA JOÀO CARLOS BAPTISTA HUGO GOMES MASSIMO BELTRAME PEDRO CURA RESUMO: o rexto discute 3S estratègias de ocupaçào e gestfio do territorio da regiào de Maçào Ila proto-història. As evidèncias sugerem lllll conhecimento muito apurado cl:'! geo-logi...

Workshop Report on the International Meeting on Paleoclimate: change and adaptation (Coimbra, 2019) - Portugal

Foreword Climate is the planetary response of the atmospheric circulation to its changing composition, to the solar system configuration, to the Earth’s rotation and to the oceans’ and continents’ distributions. It displays, as a result, a restless moving pattern, expressed at a global scale by subsiding and uplifting convection cells. These change...