Curriculum Vitae
Ana Maria dos Santos Bettencourt
Institutional Address:
Departament of History, Institut of Social
Sciences, University of Minho, Complexo
Pedagógico de Gualtar, Campus de Gualtar, 4710
– 059 Braga, Portugal. Tel. 253 604213; Fax 253
604697 Email: [email protected]; URL:
http://www.hist.ics.uminho.pt;
uminho.academia.edu/AnaBettencourt
Academic degrees:
-Degree in History-Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra, Portugal 1984.
-Master in Anthropology option - Paleoanthropology, Institut of Quaternary,
University of Bordeaux I, France - 1986.
Matter of Master dissertation: Middle Palaeolithic.
-Doctor in Prehistory and Antiquity, Institut of Social Sciences, University of
Minho, Portugal -2000.
Matter of PhD: Bronze Age of the Northwest Portugal.
-Aggregation in Prehistory, Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, Portugal - 2007.
Matter of public lesson: Funerary contexts and practices of the Early and Middle
Bronze Age in the NW of Iberian Peninsula.
Professional career:
-Lecturer of the University of Minho, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of
History (Nov. 1988 - Jan. 2000).
-Auxiliary Professor of the University of Minho, Institut of Social Sciences,
Department of History (Jan. 2000 - Jun. 2007).
-Auxiliary Professor with Aggregation of the University of Minho – Institut of
Social Sciences, Department of History (since Jun. 2007).
Research Centre:
Trandisciplinary Research Centre “Culture, Space and Memory” - CITCEM
(Oporto/Minho Universities), since 2007.
Teaching Experience:
Graduation courses in Archaeology
Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology; Prehistory and Protohistory of the
Iberian Peninsula; Archaeological Artifacts II; Prehistoric and Protohistoric Rock
Art; Archaeological Laboratory Practices; Archaeological Field Practices.
PosGraduation courses in Archaeology:
Seminar I. Environmental and Landscape Archaeology (Module 1: Spatial
Archaeology versus Landscape Archaeology); Seminar II. Materials and
Technologies of Production (Module 2: Prehistoric metallurgy in Iberian
Peninsula); Seminar III. Architectures, Materials and Technologies of
Construction (Module 1: Prehistoric Architectures); Archaeological Research
Work; Orientation Seminar.
PosGraduation courses in Heritage:
Archaeological Heritage and Cultural Resources and Products
Scientific area of research:
Neolithic and Bronze Age of Western Europe, specially the west of Iberian
Peninsula
Main research interest:
Settlement; funerary contexts and practices; hoards and mining; rock art;
environmental studies; archaeology and tourism.
Projects:
1. Leader
"Natural spaces, architectures, rock carvings and depositions of the Late
Prehistory of western facade in the central-northern Portugal: from agencies
to meanings (ENARDAS)" with the reference PTDC/HIS-ARQ/112983/2009.
Project submitted and approved by the "Fundação para a Ciência e
Tecnologia-FCT".
Between
April
2010
to
October
2014.
www.enardas.hostzi.com
"Bronze Age Landscapes in the West of Iberian Peninsula" project submitted and
approved by the "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia FCT" with the
reference SFRH/BSAB/ 986/10. Developed under a Sabbatical Scholarship,
between March to August of 2010 (Concluded in September 2002010).
"The body in the landscape: rites and beliefs in the Bronze Age Northwest
Iberian Peninsula ", project submitted and approved by the "Fundação para a
Ciência e Tecnologia-FCT" with the reference (SFRH/BSAB/650/2006).
Developed under a Sabbatical Scholarship (Concluded in December 2007).
"The Entre-Douro-e-Minho landscape since middle of 3th to the end of 2nd
millennia BC", with the reference POCTI/36527/HAR/2000. Project approved
by the "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia -FCT", in 2001 (Concluded in
2005).
"The metallurgy of bronze during the Proto-History of Entre-Douro-e-Minho"
with the reference HIST/01/PI.6. Project submitted and funded by the
Research Centre "Centro de Ciências Históricas e Sociais da Universidade do
Minho-CCHS" (Concluded in December 2003).
"The Late Bronze Age communities in the middle Cávado river basin: regularities
and specificities", individual project registered and supported by the Research
Centre "Centro de Ciências Históricas e Sociais da Universidade do MinhoCCHS". This project resulted in his doctoral thesis entitled "The landscape and
man in the river Cávado basin, during the 2nd and 1st millennia BC"
(Concluded in 1999).
2. Member of team:
"The necropolis of Xunqueira and the settlement of Monte das Cabanas, Vigo,
Pontevedra in the context of the Prehistory of the NW Iberian Peninsula ".
Project supported by University of Vigo. (Coordinator: Beatriz Comendador
Rey – University of Vigo). Between 2011 to 2013.
"Early metallurgy in the portuguese territory" project supported by FCT, with
the references of PTDC/HIS-ARQ/099950, PTDC/HIS-ARQ/100623 e
PTDC/HIS-ARQ/102112/2008 (resulting from the merger of three projects).
Coordinator:Maria de Fátima Duarte de Araújo - Instituto Tecnológico e
Nuclear (ITN). Between January of 2010 to Jully of 2013 (Concluded in 2013).
"Celebration of the maritim culture – CCC," internacional project financed by
“Mecanismo Financeiro do Espaço Económico Europeu”/EEA Grants, Norway
and Municipilaty of Sines, Portugal. Coordinators in Portugal: Henrique Souto
- University Nova de Lisboa; Maria do Céu Baptista - Mútua dos Pescadores
and Luís Martins (Concluded in 2010).
Charges:
Academics:
-“Director of the Master's Degree in Cultural Heritage and Tourism”, Department
of History at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho, from 2012.
-“Course Director of the Degree in History”, Department of History at the
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho (2002/2003 to 2005/2006).
- “Departmental Coordinator of the Socrates / Erasmus Program” in the
Department of History at the University of Minho (2000/2001 to 2005/2006).
Nationals:
“Member of the Portuguese Committee” to preparing the application for
Schematic Iberian art to the Unesco World Heritage, State Department of
Culture of Portugal, from 2013.
“Member of the National Assessment Panel” of the Multi-Year Archaeology
Research Projects (PIPA), Management Institute of Architectural and
Archaeological Heritage - IGESPAR IP, State Department of Culture of
Portugal, since 2012.
“President of the Portuguese Association to Quaternary Studies – APEQ” (20102012)
“Member of the Inter-University Committee for Restructuring History Courses”
in the framework of the Bologna Process, on demand of the Ministry of
Education of Portugal (2004).
Editorials:
Director of the Journal “Quaternary Studies / Estudos do Quaternário”, journal of
the Portuguese Association to Quaternary Studies - APEQ, since 2010 to 2012.
Member of Scientific Committees of “Journal of Iberian Archaeology”;
“Quaternary Studies” and “Gallaecia”.
Occasional collaborations as scientific reviewer of the journals:
Journal of Archaeology Sciences – Elsevier
Quaternary Studies - APEQ
Zephyrus - Journal of prehistoric archeologyy, University of Salamanca
Minius - Journal of University of Vigo
Publications:
To date, has published more than one hundred titles, including books, books
editor, conference proceedings editor, book chapters, papers in proceedings of
scientific meetings, articles in scientific journals, educational publications,
entries for catalogs of archeology exhibition, etc.
Some publications:
Book:
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2013). The Prehistory of the Northwestern Portugal / A
Pré-História do Noroeste Português, Territórios da Pré-História em Portugal, vol.
2, Tomar: CEIPHAR /CITCEM (bilingual).
Book (editor):
ALMEIDA, A.C.; BETTENCOURT, A.M. S.; MOURA, D.; MONTEIRO-RODRIGUES, S.
& ALVES, M.I.C. (eds). (2012). Environmental changes and human interaction
along the Western Atlantic Edge / Alterações ambientais e interacção humana
na fachada atlântica ocidental. Coimbra: APEQ, CEGOT, CITCEM, CCT/CGUP,
271p. ISBN: 978-989-97140-1-4 (portuguese and english languages).
MARTINS, C.B.; BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. ; MARTINS, J.I.F.P & CARVALHO, J. (eds).
(2011). Settlement and mining in the Western Atlantic Europen / Povoamento e
Exploração de Recursos Mineiros na Europa Atlântica Ocidental / Braga:
CITCEM, APEQ. ISBN: 978-989-97558-5-7.( in english, portuguese and spanish
languages)
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; SANCHES, M.J.; ALVES, L.B. & FABREGAS VALVARCE, R.
(eds.) (2010). Conceptualizing space and place. On the role of agency, memory
and identity in the construction of space from the Upper Paleolithic to the Iron
Age in Europe. [Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the International Union
for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Lisbon, September 2006], BARS2058, Oxford: Archeopress.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; ALVES, M.I.C. & MONTEIRO-RODRIGUES, S. (eds.) (2010).
Paleoenvironmental changes and anthropization in the Quaternary of Western
Iberia / Variações paleoambientais e evolução antrópica no Quaternário do
Ocidente Peninsular Braga: APEQ / CITCEM, 203p. (portuguese and english
languages) ISBN: 978-989-9714-0-7.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. & ALVES, L.B. (eds.) (2009). Hills, Stones and Waters.
Ways of interaction with the natural space from Prehistory to the Present / Dos
Montes, das Pedras e das Águas. Formas de Interacção com o Espaço Natural da
Pré-história à Actualidade. Braga: CITCEM / APEQ, 207p. (portuguese and
spanish languages)
JORGE, S.O.; BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. & FIGUEIRAL, I. (eds.) (2007). Conceptions
of landscape and space in the Archaeology of the Iberian Península / A
concepção das paisagens e dos espaços na Arqueologia da Península Ibérica.
[Actas do IV Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular, Faro, Setembro de 2004],
Promontoria Monográfica 08, Faro: Centro de Estudos de Património,
Departamento de História, Arqueologia e Património da Universidade do
Algarve, 234p. (portuguese and spanish languages) ISBN:978-972-99693-9-3.
JORGE, V.O.; BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; BERROCAL-RANGEL, L.; CORREIA, V.H.;
FERNÁNDEZ-POSSE, M.D. & SÁNCHEZ-PALENCIA, F.J. (eds.) (2000).
Protohistory of the Iberian Peninsula / Proto-História da Península Ibérica.
[Actas do III Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular, Vila Real, Setembro de
1999]. Porto. ADECAP (portuguese and spanish languages).
Chapers of books:
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2013). ”O Bronze Final no Noroeste português. Lugares,
memórias e ações”. In J.L. Cardoso (ed.) Sistemas de Povoamento do Norte,
Centro e Sul do Território Português no decurso do Bronze Final. Oeiras: Centro
de Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras e Câmara Municipal de Oeiras.
INOCÊNCIO, J.R. & BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2013) “Contextos funerários
calcolíticos do Baixo Alentejo Interior”, Actas del VI Encuentro de Arqueología
del Suroeste Peninsular, VillaFranca de Los Barros. Badajoz: Universidad de
Huelva, Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida.
MARTÍN-SEIJO, M.; BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. & ABAD-VIDAL, E. & LÓPEZ GARCÍA,
J.C. (2012). “Firewood and timber exploitation during the third and second
millennia BC in the Northwestern Iberia: wooden resources, territories and
chaîne opératoire”. In A.C. Almeida, A.M.S. Bettencourt, D. Moura, S. MonteiroRodrigues & M.I.C. Alves (eds.) Environmental Changes and Human Interaction
Along the Western Atlantic Edge / Alterações Ambientais e Interacção Humana
na Fachada Atlântica Ocidental. Coimbra: APEQ, CEGOT, CITCEM, CCT/CGUP:
115-135.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2011). “Estruturas e práticas funerárias do Bronze
Inicial e Médio do Noroeste Peninsular”, In P. Bueno, A. Gilman, Concha M.
Morales & F. Javier Sánchez-Palencia (eds.) Arqueología, Sociedad, Territorio y
Paisaje. Estudios sobre Prehistoria Reciente, Protohistoria y Transición al
Mundo Romano en Homenaje a Mª Dolores Fernández Posse, Bibliotheca
Praehistorica Hispana (BPH) XXVII, Madrid: Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cient^_ficas, Instituto de Historia: 115-139.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2011). “El vaso campaniforme en el Norte de Portugal.
Contextos, cronologias y significados”, In M.P. Prieto-Martínez & L. Salanova
(eds.) Las comunidades campaniformes en Galicia. Cambios sociales en el III y II
milenios BC en el NW de la Península Ibérica. Pontevedra: Diputación de
Pontevedra: 363-37.
SAMPAIO, H.A. & BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2011). “Produção e práticas
metalúrgicas da Idade do Bronze no Noroeste português. O caso do Pego,
Braga”, In C. Martins, A.M.S. Bettencourt, J.I.F.P. Martins & J. Carvalho (eds.)
Povoamento e Exploração de Recursos Mineiros na Europa Atlântica Ocidental.
Braga: CITCEM, APEQ: 391-407.
MARTÍN SEIJO, M.; FIGUEIRAL, I.; BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; GONÇALVES, A.H.B.;
ALVES, M.I.C. (2011). « A floresta e o mato. Exemplos da exploração dos
recursos lenhosos pelas comunidades da Idade do Bronze Inicial e Médio do
Noroeste de Portugal”, In J. Tereso, J. Honrado, A.T. Pinto & F.C. Rego (eds.)
Florestas do Norte de Portugal. História, Ecologia e Desafios de Gestão. Porto:
InBio – Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva (e-book):
85-98.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2010). Burials, corpses and offerings in the Bronze Age
of NW Iberia as agents of social identity and memory, In A.M.S. Bettencourt,
M.J. Sanches, L.B. Alves & R. Fábregas Valcarce (eds.) Conceptualizing space
and place. On the role of agency, memory and identity in the construction of
space from the Upper Paleolithic to the Iron Age in Europe. Proceedings of the
15th Congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric
Sciences, Lisbon, September 2006, BAR-S2058, International Series, Oxford:
Archeopress: 33-45.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; SANCHES, M.J.; ALVES, L.B. & FÁBREGAS VALCARCE, R.
(2010). “Conceptualizing space and place. On the role of agency, memory and
identity in the construction of space from the Upper Paleolithic to the Iron Age
in Europe. An introduction”, In A.M.S. Bettencourt, M.J. Sanches, L.B. Alves & R.
Fábregas Valcarce (eds.) Conceptualizing space and place. On the role of
agency, memory and identity in the construction of space from the Upper
Paleolithic to the Iron Age in Europe. BAR-S2058, International Series. Oxford:
Archeopress: 1-3.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2009). “A Pré-História do Minho: do Neolítico à Idade do
Bronze”, In P. Pereira (coord.) Minho.Traços de Identidade, Ed. Conselho
Cultural da Universidade do Minho, Braga: 70-113
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2008). “Life and death in the Bronze Age of the NW
Iberian Peninsula”, In F. Fahlander & T. Oestigaard (eds.) The Materiality of
Death–Bodies, Burials, Beliefs, BAR International Series 1768, Oxford:
Archeopress, 99-104.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2005). “The Bronze Age in North-west Portugal” In I.
Silva & C. Mineiro (coord.) D. Diogo de Sousa. Regional Museum of Archaeology.
Guide, Lisboa:Instituto Português dos Museus, 36-41.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2005). “The early farmers and shepherds of North-west
Portugal: the Neolithic and the Calcolithic”. In I. Silva & C. Mineiro (coord.) D.
Diogo de Sousa. Regional Museum of Archaeology. Guide, Lisboa: Instituto
Português dos Museus, 28-35.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2005). “O que aconteceu às populações do Bronze Final
do Noroeste de Portugal, no segundo quartel do I milénio AC, e quando
começou, afinal, a Idade do Ferro?” Actas do Colóquio Internacional Castro, um
lugar para habitar, Cadernos do Museu, nº 11, Câmara Municipal de Penafiel,
Penafiel: 25-40.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. & COMENDADOR REY, B. (2003). “Los inicios de la
metalurgia del bronce en el Noroeste Peninsular”, Actas do IVº Congreso
Internacional sobre Património Geológico e Mineiro, Teruel, Aragón: Museu do
Instituto Geológico e Mineiro de Utrillas, 343-357.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2006). “A transformação da paisagem e a construção de
lugares de memória durante a Pré-História Recente do Norte de Portugal: o
vale do Assureira”, Actas das XVI Jornadas Sobre a Função Social do Museu.
Ecomuseu do Barroso - Identidade e Desenvolvimento, Minom - Movimento
Internacional para uma Nova Museologia. Montalegre: Câmara Municipal de
Montalegre e Ecomuseu do Barroso, 109 - 123.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2000). “O mundo funerário da Idade do Ferro do Norte
de Portugal: algumas questões”, In V.O. Jorge et al. (eds.) Proto-História da
Península Ibérica. Actas do IIIº Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular. Porto:
ADECAP, 43-60.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (1998). “O conceito de Bronze Atlântico na Península
Ibérica”, In S.O. Jorge (ed.) Existe uma Idade do Bronze Atlântico? Trabalhos de
Arqueologia - 10, Lisboa: IPA, 18-39.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (1997). “Expressões funerárias da Idade do Bronze no
Noroeste peninsular”, Actas do IIº Congreso de Arqueología Peninsular,
Fundación Rei Afonso Henriques, Zamora: 621-632.
Papers in Journals:
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; ALVES, L.B.; RIBEIRO, A.T. & MENEZES, R.T. (2012).
Gravuras rupestres da Bouça da Cova da Moura (Ardegães, Maia, Norte de
Portugal), no contexto da Pré-história Recente da bacia do Leça, Gallaecia 31:
47-62
FERNANDES, J.O. ; BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; COMENDADOR REY, A.M.S. & ALVES
M.I. C. (2011). O depósito metálico da Bandeira, Viana do Castelo (Norte de
Portugal) no contexto dos depósitos do Bronze Médio do curso inferior do
Lima. Estudos do Quaternário 7: 31-37.
COMENDADOR REY, B. & BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2011). Nuevos datos sobre la
primera metalurgia del bronce en el noroeste de la Peninsula Ibérica: la
contribución de Bouça da Cova da Moura (Ardegães, Maia). Estudos do
Quaternário 7: 19-31.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2010). La Edad del Bronce en el Noroeste de la Península
Ibérica: una análisis a partir de las prácticas funerarias, Trabajos de
Prehistoria 67 (1): 139-173.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; RODRIGUES, A.; SILVA, I.S.; CRUZ, C.S. & DINIS, A. (2005).
The ceremonial site of Vale Ferreiro, Fafe, in the context of the Bronze Age in
Northwest Portugal, Journal of Iberian Archaeology 7:157-175.
FIGUEIRAL, I. & BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2004). Midle and Late Bronze Age plant
communities, and their exploitation, in the Cávado Basin (NW Portugal) as shown
by charcoal analysis: the significance and co-occurrence of Quercus (deciduous)–
Fabaceae, Vegetation History and Archaeobotanic 13: 219-232.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; SANCHES; M J.; DINIS, A. & CRUZ, C.S. (2004). The rock
engravings of Penedo do Matrimónio in Campo de Caparinho, Vilar de Perdizes,
Montalegre (Northern Portugal), Journal of Iberian Archaeology 6: 61-82.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S. (2003). Plant and animal husbandry in the second millennium
BC in Northern Portugal, Journal of Iberian Archaeology 5: 199-202.
BETTENCOURT, A.M.S.; LEMOS F.S. & ARAÚJO, T. (2002). The young man of Vale
Ferreiro Fafe (Northern Portugal): an early prehistorically burial, Journal of Iberian
Archaeology 4: 131-151.
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