Mariana Nabais (0000-0001-5344-237X)

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I am currently a post-doctoral fellow under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034349, and from the State Research Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Programme Maria de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (CEX2019-000945-M), doing research on Palaeolithic faunas from Portuguese archaeological sites. I hold a PhD in Palaeolithic Zooarchaeology awarded in 2021 by University College London (UCL, UK).
I worked as a teaching assistant in Zooarchaeology and in Field Methods in Archaeology in University College London Institute of Archaeology, UK. I was the assistant director of UCL field school between 2014 and 2016, in the UK, and since 2018 that I am the founder and director of South-West Archaeology Digs (SWAD) field school, in Portugal, co-leading several excavation projects with hands-on teaching on site and in the field laboratory. Several SWAD field school participants have gained academic credit for their participation, which was awarded by different European, American and Australian universities.
I have been the jury of academic degree to two international PhD thesis in Spain. In 2022, my PhD thesis was awarded the Archaeology Prize Eduardo da Cunha Serrão by the Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, in Portugal.
My research has been part of several funded national and international projects. I am the author of 17 peer-reviewed papers in journals with impact factor (IF), including articles in major scientific journals of general science, like Science and Nature Communications, and others of more specific fields of human evolution, like Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Palaeo3, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. I have authored nine papers on academic journals without IF, and ten papers on conference publications without IF. I have produced several unpublished zooarchaeology and archaeology reports for academic and commercial archaeology projects in Portugal and the UK.
I am an Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, and a scientific committee member of the Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum (PZAF). I am a referee for IF journals, like Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, and Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology. I am currently co-editing the special issue “Neanderthal Complex Behaviour Through the Lens of Faunal Resources” in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.
I have contributed with over 40 talks/posters at international conferences in Portugal, Spain, France, UK, Lithuania, Turkey and Japan. I have organised seminar series and sessions in international conferences in specific fields of human evolution in Portugal, UK and Turkey.
The media and social impact of my research has been presented and discussed on several international platforms, featuring in at least 168 news in TV, radio, newspapers – including The New York Times, CNN, BBC News and The National Geographic – as well as in podcasts, and other digital platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social: Tarragona, Spain, ES

2022-12-01 to 2024-12-01 | Postdoc

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Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social: Tarragona, Spain, ES

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras: Lisboa, PT

Sonae (Portugal): Grândola, PT

University College London: London, London, GB

University College London: London, GB

University College London: London, London, GB

University College London: London, London, GB

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University College London: London, London, GB

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B-ROMAN - Exploitation and consumption of biological resources in western Iberia during Roman times

ARQUEOLOGIA E EVOLUÇÃO DOS PRIMEIROS HUMANOS NA FACHADA ATLÂNTICA DA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA

Neanderthal Subsistence in Portugal: small and large prey consumption during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS-5)

Neanderthal Subsistence in Portugal: small and large prey consumption during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS-5)

Neanderthal Subsistence in Portugal: small and large prey consumption during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS-5)

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A Metalurgia do Ferro no Castelo Velho de Safara (Moura) – Escórias de Ferreiro em Contextos Romano-Republicanos e da 2ª Idade do Ferro

A Análise Tafonómica em Zooarqueologia

Castelo Velho de Safara (Safara, Moura): Relatório de Progresso de Escavação (Julho de 2023, Janeiro de 2024)

Donkey remains from the Roman Ruins of Troia, Portugal: A zooarchaeological evaluation

Methodological Videography of Bird Butchery: Replicating Early Human Techniques in Experimental Archaeology

O impacto da arqueologia numa aldeia: O exemplo da South-West Archaeology Digs em Safara (Moura)

Replicating early human behaviour in bird preparation: A pilot-study focusing on bone surface modification and breakage patterns

À mesa na Tróia romana

The Zooarchaeology of ancient whaling practices in Portugal: A review and a new Roman Republican contribution at Castelo Velho de Safara

Experimental replication of early human behaviour in bird preparation: a pilot-study focusing on bone surface modification and breakage patterns

Archaeological experimentation with Cancer pagurus: mimicking Neanderthal processing methods

Castelo Velho de Safara (Safara, Moura): Relatório de Progresso de Escavação (Julho de 2022, Janeiro de 2023).

Gestão e Uso Animal na Rua da Judiaria

Looking for a Whale in a Haystack: Utilizing Zooarchaeological Analysis and Collagen Mass-Peptide Fingerprinting to Reconstruct Ancient Whaling and Whale Populations.

MALDI-TOF MS spectra of archaeological whale bone specimens from Atlantic Europe

O impacto de uma escola de campo internacional de arqueologia num meio rural em Portugal: o caso da South-West Archaeology Digs em Safara (Moura).

O sítio arqueológico da Telhada (Vermoil, Pombal)

Ruínas Romanas da Telhada (Vermoil, Pombal). Limpeza do sítio arqueológico e proposta de valorização – Relatório dos Trabalhos

The exploitation of crabs by Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals: the evidence from Gruta da Figueira Brava (Portugal)

Trabalhos Arqueológicos de diagnóstico no “Porto Romano” de Tróia

Tróia fumegante: Os cachimbos cerâmicos modernos do sítio arqueológico de Tróia

Valorização das Ruínas Romanas de Tróia – Relatório de Progresso 2021

NOVA PLANTA DO CASTELO VELHO DE SAFARA: INTEGRAÇÃO DE DADOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS COM TOPOGRAFIA DE ALTA RESOLUÇÃO DERIVADA DE LEVANTAMENTO DRONE-LIDAR

Formation processes, fire use, and patterns of human occupation across the Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 5a-5b) of Gruta da Oliveira (Almonda karst system, Torres Novas, Portugal)

Composition and manufacture of a rare gold example of the Mesopotamian “tree of life” iconography and coeval jewellery in southwestern Iberian Peninsula

Human-bird interaction in last Interglacial Iberia: A combined approach using skeletal part analysis, bone surface modification, bird ethology and ethnography

Castelo Velho de Safara (Safara, Moura): Sondagens e prospecção com detector de metais (Junho e Julho de 2019, Janeiro de 2020) – Relatório final de escavação

Gestão e Uso Animal na Rua da Judiaria, Lisboa

Human-Bird Interactions in Last Interglacial Iberia

Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history

Resultados preliminares das primeiras escavações no Castelo Velho de Safara (Moura)

Late Quaternary (MIS 5a-5b) climate and environments of western Iberia inferred from the small-mammal assemblage of Gruta da Oliveira, Torres Novas, Portugal

Evidência zooarqueológica das escavações de D. Fernando de Almeida em Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal

Relatório dos Trabalhos Arqueológicos da DIA da UNOP 4 do TroiaResort, Área 11.

Relatório dos Trabalhos Arqueológicos da DIA da UNOP 4 do TroiaResort, Área 6

Relatório dos Trabalhos Arqueológicos da DIA da UNOP 4 do TroiaResort, Área 9

Relatório dos Trabalhos Arqueológicos do Tanque 10 da Oficina 23 das Ruínas Romanas de Tróia.

Brief overview of zooarchaeological research within the framework of Middle Palaeolithic subsistence theories

Neanderthal Subsistence in Portugal: small and large prey consumption during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS-5)

A Espada do Monte das Oliveiras (Serpa) – uma arma do Bronze Pleno do Sudoeste.

Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

A Espada do Monte das Oliveiras (Serpa) – uma arma do Bronze Pleno do Sudoeste.

Caracterização zooarqueológica do conjunto faunístico recolhido na Rua da Bombarda, Lisboa, Portugal.

Caracterização zooarqueológica do conjunto faunístico recolhido no Largo do Terreirinho das Flores, Santarém, Portugal.

Chelonian use in Portugal: Evidence from Castelo Velho de Safara

The consumption of tortoise among Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals

Deer Parks and Recreation. Zooarchaeological evidence form the Earls of Arundel Hunting Lodge in Downley (West Sussex, UK)

Birds of the Roman uilla of Almoinhas (Loures, Portugal)

Birds of the Roman uilla of Almoinhas (Loures, Portugal)

Castelo Velho de Safara (Safara, Moura): Sondagem Junho de 2018 – Relatório final de escavação

Peer review (3 reviews for 1 publication/grant)