Sara GarcêsPolytechnic Institute of Tomar · Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Tomar
Sara Garcês
Polytechnic Institute of Tomar | Contract researcher
Researcher in Tomar Polytechnic Institute; Archaeological Tourism (TURARQ project); FIRST-ART project;
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Introduction
I am a prehistoric archaeologist and a rock art researcher. I am engaged in multidisciplinary research projects across Iberian Peninsula, UK, Israel and Brazil. My doctoral research is based on the pre-schematic and schematic rock art of Tagus River Basin. I am involved with the FIRST-ART project which is dedicated to the characterisation and dating of the oldest rock art figures in Europe and with the TURARQ project - a strategy for the development of archaeological tourism in Middle Tagus, PT.
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Ao longo da história da Humanidade, partindo de uma perspetiva ecológica que integra os grupos de humanos como apenas mais uma espécie na natureza, todos os grupos de caçadores-recoletores parecem ter mantido uma relação especial com algum tipo de animal. Na arte rupestre europeia, esta relação é muito mais evidente em cronologias paleolíticas, no...
Maltravieso cave (Estremadura, Spain) was recently the subject of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy of 8 figures (four hand stencils, a red horse figure, a black bull figure, a pair of black lines, and a pair of brown lines). These artistic representations are composed of different colors including red, brown, and black figures. The analyses showed that differ...
El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido caracterizar la naturaleza química y mineralógica del pigmento empleado en los motivos esquemáticos prehistóricos de la cueva de Los Buitres 1 (Capilla, Badajoz), y tratar de identificar la presencia de materia orgánica en su composición. Para ello se han realizado análisis de espectroscopia Micro-Raman y A...
Microscopic observation correlated with chemical–mineralogical characterization was performed on pigment samples from “Abrigo del Lince” rock art site (V-IV millennium BC), in order to provide contributions to the study of prehistoric schematic art on granite in the province of Badajoz (Spain). The research objectives include the understanding of t...
POST-GRADUATION: Experimental Archaeology in Prehistory and Protohistory
In 2021, a new palaeolithic panel with rock art engravings on a schist outcrop was unearthed in Ocreza river. At the vertical surface of the panel appear the outlines of at least three zoomorphic figures. The use of metamorphic rocks as surfaces for artistic representations is a common phenomenon at open air sites situated near rivers in Portugal....
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...
Painted rock art figures from the Boqueirão da Pedra Furada and Toca do Paraguaio shelters (Serra da Capivara, Piauí, Brazil) have been recently analysed using various recognised scientific techniques. After the geochemical results, the samples that revealed carbonate were used for the dating process. Uranium-series disequilibrium dating (U/Th) met...
In the 1970s, prehistoric rock art was found in the Tagus River Basin, just as a dam project was set to raise water levels. In a race against time, archaeologists sought to find a way to record thousands of images before they were submerged. Now the results have been carefully studied using a variety of new technological approaches. Sara Garcês and...
For the whole volume: https://arkeogazte.org/animales-arte-prehistorico/
Abstract: This project will investigate human adaptation during the climate changes in the Iberian Peninsula, specifically, in context with rock art, combining figurative evidence with deposits in caves and outdoors. All of this combining different disciplines and different scientific approaches, through the use of petrographic, geochemical and iso...
Field methods for the 2020's field season in the Ocreza Valley.
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...
The stressful situation caused by the pandemic has become a powerful factor for the introduction of new methods and forms of education. The field of archaeological education was no exception. In this educational year, teachers and students fully experienced both the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning in the field of archaeology and m...
The archeological site RS-TQ-141 is located in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and belongs to the pre-colonial Guarani Tradition (between fifth and seventeenth century). The site extends to the bank of the Taquari River. About 200 small fragments of ceramic from the site present internal and/or external coating surfaces. Archaeometry analyses were appli...
The origins of Neolithic tomb building in Europe are often difficult to pinpoint. We know that the Neolithic Revolution occurs in what is termed the ‘Fertile Crescent’ around 10,000 BCE but in terms of understanding the development and tomb architecture and how it spread across Europe is still unclear. We do know that during the 4th and 5th millenn...
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...
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...
O volume que agora se publica é o 10o de uma série de Monografias editadas pela Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (AAP) destinada à divulgação dos colóquios temáticos organizados com alguma regularidade pelas suas Secções e Comissões, e sobretudo de trabalhos académicos de maior envergadura, que foram premiados ou distinguidos pelo júri do Pré...
Pigments from several preHistoric rock art painting samples were analysed through a multiproxy archaeometric approach. Sampling occurred in two rockshelters within the National Park of Serra da Capivara National Park area (a UNESCO World Heritage Site): Toca do Paraguaio and Toca do Boqueirão da Pedra Furada. Five complementary techniques x-ray mic...
La Serena region is a large plateau with open landscapes bounded in the south by a mountain chain formed by the Benquerencia, Tiros and La Rinconada Sierras. There are more than 300 painted and engraved sites in the region. Cueva Grande, Cueva de En medio and Cueva Pequeña are three Schematic rock art shelters located in the municipality of Benquer...
In this study, a collection of 29 samples of possible pigments, binders and carrying agents were selected based on artistic considerations and analysed with ATR Fourier-trans- form infrared spectroscopy in order to determine usable marker bands for each ingredient. It was decided to establish a preliminary and specific database for ATR-FTIR applied...
This volume of Téchné includes 9 papers presented on occasion of the 14th edition of the Iberian- American Journeys on Archaeology and Heritage (JIAP), in 2018.
Initiated back in 2007, the JIAP gatherings are a moment for researchers involved in the transatlantic studies animated by ITM and partners (namely the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, the Q...
O corpus de arte rupestre do Vale do Tejo é um projeto que foi iniciado no âmbito do Instituto Terra e Memória, com um duplo enquadramento. Por um lado, no domínio da investigação, tratou-se de estruturar uma base documental rigorosa, que permitisse desenvolver um estudo global sobre o complexo, reduzindo a margem de erro decorrente de perceções su...
Throughout early prehistory the horse is featured in rock art, none more so than within the steep-sided valleys of the western Iberian Peninsula. The engravings are of a generic style, found within a limited number of locations across central and northern Portugal, in particular, along the major river systems of the Côa, Douro, Zêzere, and Tagus. B...
The session will take into account presentations related to subjects of rock-art imagery from all chronological periods or cultural traditions. Likewise, papers will be accepted from any rock art site of the world. Since rock-art Archaeometry and Conservation is closely related with other disciplines (Geology or Biology, for example), papers will b...
A presente monografia da série Arkeos apresenta uma parte da minha tese de Doutoramento em Quaternário, Materiais e Culturas, pela Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, intitulada “Cervídeos: Símbolos e Sociedade nos primórdios da Agricultura no Vale do Tejo” uma análise ao Complexo Rupestre do Vale do Tejo (CARVT). Várias foram as instituiç...
Methodology Aerial and terrestrial, nadir and oblique photography were captured and used for VL1 modelling. In order to capture aerial photographs, a DJI P3P drone with a 12Mpix sensor (2-20m agl.) and equipment with an APS-C sensor of 28Mpix was used to capture terrestrial photography. The photogrammetric processing was performed in the software P...
Le comportement humain est conditionné par une multiplicité de variables, qui tendent à s'articuler autour de notions de base qui façonnent la perception de l'environnement et sont à leur tour nourries par une telle perception. Dans le contexte des processus d'anthropisation territoriale, c'est-à-dire de construction de relations avec le territoire...
O modelo sobre o qual a arqueologia cresceu, em Portugal e em alguns outros países, nas últimas duas décadas, foi alimentado por um afluxo de verbas essencialmente orientado para a preservação e valorização patrimonial, com crescente desinteresse pela pesquisa. O ocaso da arqueologia comercial cruza-se com o estrangulamento das bases institucionais...
Este trabalho apresenta uma abordagem multidisciplinar à monitorização do estado de conservação do sí‐ tio de arte rupestre de Cobragança, em Mação, Portugal. Este apresenta um estado grave de conservação, compreendendo‐se, hoje em dia, uma perda bastante acentuada do conjunto de gravuras devido a fatores na‐ turais e, essencialmente, fogos florest...
The current volume of issue 3 of Techné results from the contributions to the 4th ASP Conference of advanced research students in Prehistoric Art, held in Mação in 2016, with the organisation of the Museum of Prehistoric Art of Mação and the support of ITM (Land and Memory Institute) and CGEO (Geosciences Centre of Coimbra University). The volume i...
O progresso do conhecimento é, antes de mais nada, um exercício de dedicação total à interrogação, à dúvida, e à vontade de a superar por pequenos passos, de forma perseverante, metódica e colaborativa.
É o reconhecimento de que o Dr. João Calado Rodrigues possuía estas características, mais do que a efeméride da importante descoberta do povoado do...
O trabalho que aqui se apresenta, revê de forma sistemática e atualizada o Complexo Rupestre do Vale do Tejo (CARVT), abarcando uma área de 120km de comprimento. Conta com 12 núcleos de arte rupestre que se estendem sensivelmente, desde a foz do rio Ocreza a jusante até ao vale do rio Erges, a montante. Estes núcleos comportam um conjunto de 1636 r...
The current volume of issue 3 of Techné results from the contributions to the 4th ASP Conference of advanced research students in Prehistoric Art, held in Mação in 2016, with the organisation of the Museum of Prehistoric Art of Mação and the support of ITM (Land and Memory Institute) and CGEO (Geosciences Centre of Coimbra University). The volume i...
It is becoming increasing clear that the visual archaeological record, as witnessed through those elements of the site that remain visible (in the case of Neolithic chambered monuments, the surviving stone architecture) is just one sensory element. For this short paper, and pertinent to this journal issue, we will focus our attentions on what Scand...
The Alto Ribatejo (central Portugal) is a sub-region with an important amount of data for the study of the neolithisation process. Some aspects related to contexts and chronologies, vegetation dynamics, palaeoeconomy and art records are reviewed. Published interpretations and models are discussed taking account of existing data, allowing pointing o...
Recent investigations within Cathole Cave have revealed several rock engravings that date from the Upper Palaeolithic including a stylised cervid, possibly a reindeer and, as yet indistinguishable engravings above and below the cervid. In advance of the erection of a protective steel grille in 2014, several archaeological trenches revealed evidence...
Recent investigations within Cathole Cave have revealed several rock engravings that date from the Upper Palaeolithic including a stylised cervid, possibly a reindeer and, as yet indistinguishable engravings above and below the cervid. In advance of the erection of a protective steel grille in 2014, several archaeological trenches revealed evidence...
Edition of some articles from XIX International Rock Art Conference, IFRAO - Cáceres (Spain), 31 August - 4 September 2015.
This paper aims to present an experimental work developed under the studies about the Cachão do Algarve rock art (Central Portugal). In this context, we tested the feasibility of producing rock art engravings on greywacke supports through the use of lithic tools formatted according to characteristics of macrolithic industries found in the archaeolo...
This paper aims to present an experimental work developed under the studies about the Cachão do Algarve rock art (Central Portugal). In this context, we tested the feasibility of producing rock art engravings on greywacke supports through the use of lithic tools formatted according to characteristics of macrolithic industries found in the archaeolo...
Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores en Arqueología - 2013
