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Talks & posters

29 conference papers and posters since 2012, from ESHE and the EAA to the Paleoanthropology Society and INQUA.

2024

  • Controlled experiments to explore decision-making processes in raw material selection and use during the Early Acheulian at Melka Wakena, Ethiopia

    14th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE)

    Paixão, E., Gossa, T., Gneisinger, W., Marreiros, J., Tholen, S., Calandra, I., Hovers, E.

  • Hidden, submerged and obliterated contexts from the Lis basin

    30th EAA Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy

    Pereira, T., Monteiro, P., Paixão, E., Nora, D., Assis, S., Simões, C., Detry, C., et al.

2023

  • Understanding raw material variability in early percussive tools: exploring the Acheulean of Melka Wakena through laboratory mechanical experiments

    XXI INQUA Congress, Rome, Italy

    Paixão, E., Gneisinger, W., Marreiros, J., Gossa, T., Hovers, E.

  • Deciphering early hominin decision-making behavior: high-resolution analysis of percussive stone tools from the African Acheulian

    Paleoanthropology Society Meeting, Portland, USA

    Paixão, E., Gossa, T., Gneisinger, W., Marreiros, J., Hovers, E.

  • Canyons as refuge areas during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Eurasia

    EAA Annual Meeting, Belfast, UK

    Pereira, T., Monteiro, P., Haws, J., Benedetti, M., Carvalho, M., Friedl, L., Paixão, E., et al.

2019

  • 3D quantification methods to characterize ground stone tools use: application to the analyses of Unit V of Nesher Ramla (Middle Paleolithic, Central Levant)

    3rd Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research, “Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways”

    Paixão, E., Marreiros, J., Prévost, M., Dubreuil, L., Zaidner, Y.

  • Traceology 2.0: developing experimental programs combining material properties, variable control and use-wear quantification

    25th EAA Annual Meeting, Bern, Switzerland

    Marreiros, J., Calandra, I., Gneisinger, W., Pedergnana, A., Schunk, L., Paixão, E.

  • Looking for better answers by using improved methods? Rethinking traceological experiments, and the importance of standardization, protocols, sample preparation and mechanical apparatus

    Hugo Obermaier Society Annual Meeting

    Gneisinger, W., Calandra, I., Pedergnana, A., Paixão, E., Marreiros, J.

2018

  • Ground breaking technologies in the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant: high resolution functional analyses of ground stone tools

    8th Annual ESHE Meeting

    Paixão, E., Marreiros, J., Malinsky-Buller, A., Gneisinger, W.

  • Raw material procurement at Abrigo do Poço rockshelter (Central Portugal)

    XVIII UISPP World Congress, Paris, France

    Pereira, T., Paixão, E., Marreiros, J., Nora, D.

  • The Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments (TraCEr), MONREPOS-RGZM: rethinking experimental design, variable control and use-wear quantification

    AWRANA Conference, Nice, France

    Marreiros, J., Calandra, I., Pedergnana, A., Schunk, L., Paixão, E., Gneisinger, W.

  • Cleaning stone tool surfaces prior to microscopic scanning: toward an experimentally tested protocol

    24th EAA Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain

    Pedergnana, A., Gneisinger, W., Calandra, I., Paixão, E., Schunk, L., Marreiros, J.

2017

  • 3D modeling to help the understanding of ground stone wear traces: experimental program in quartzite and greywacke

    International Conference on Quarrying, Production, Function, and Exchange of Ground Stone Artifacts, Mainz, Germany

    Paixão, E., Marreiros, J., Gibaja, J., Pereira, T., Bicho, N.

  • EcoPLis: human occupations in the Pleistocene ecotones of River Lis (Portugal), the 2015–2016 results

    Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Vancouver, Canada

    Pereira, T., Carvalho, V., Holliday, T., Paixão, E., Évora, M., Assis, S., Nora, D., et al.

  • Abrigo da Buraca da Moira, Leiria: resultados preliminares do projeto EcoPLis

    II Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nora, D., Monteiro, P., Paixão, E., Assis, S., Évora, M., Duarte, C., Marreiros, J., et al.

  • Limitações e desafios na análise paleopatológica de vestígios ósseos humanos desarticulados: o caso do Abrigo da Buraca da Moira, Leiria, Portugal

    VI Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, Coimbra, Portugal

    Assis, S., Holliday, T., Carvalho, V., Monteiro, P., Paixão, E., Nora, D., et al.

2016

  • Testing raw-material suitability for ground stones: experimental program in quartzite and greywacke

    Raw Materials Exploitation in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution, Faro, Portugal

    Paixão, E., Marreiros, J., Gibaja, J., Pereira, T., Cascalheira, J., Bicho, N.

  • A jazida moustierense de Cobrinhos, Vila Velha de Ródão (Portugal)

    II Congresso Internacional de Arqueologia da Região de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal

    Paixão, E., Caninas, J., Carvalho, E., Figueiredo, O., Henriques, F., Maio, D., Mendes, C., et al.

  • Dois novos sítios paleolíticos em Vila Velha de Ródão: Cobrinhos e Monte da Revelada

    III Jornadas de Arqueologia do Vale do Tejo, Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal

    Pereira, T., Figueiredo, O., Paixão, E., Henriques, F., Caninas, J., Évora, M., Maio, D., et al.

  • EcoPLis: characterizing the prehistoric human occupations in the Lis river basin (Portugal)

    22nd EAA Annual Meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Pereira, T., Carvalho, V., Holliday, T., Évora, M., Monteiro, P., Paixão, E., Marreiros, J., et al.

  • Uma possível fratura de avulsão num fragmento de ulna recuperado no complexo cársico com ocupação pré-histórica do sítio da Buraca da Moira (Boa Vista, Leiria)

    V Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia

    Assis, S., Branco, R., Carvalho, V., Dias, R., Évora, M., Farias, A., et al.

2015

  • Cobrinhos, a new Mousterian site in Vila Velha de Ródão (Portugal)

    Paleoanthropology Society Meeting, San Francisco, USA

    Pereira, T., Caninas, J., Carvalho, E., Figueiredo, O., Henriques, F., Maio, D., Mendes, C., et al.

  • Living and hunting during the Mesolithic in the Cabeço da Amoreira shellmidden (Muge, Portugal): preliminary lithic use-wear analysis

    9th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe

    Marreiros, J., Paixão, E., Gibaja, J., Pereira, T., Cascalheira, J., Bicho, N.

2014

  • Technological approaches to stone tool production: the case of layer 2 of the Mesolithic shellmidden of Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge (Portugal)

    79th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, USA

    Paixão, E., Cascalheira, J., Marreiros, J., Pereira, T., Bicho, N.

  • Geometric tool production in the Muge Mesolithic shellmiddens (Portugal): the case of layer 2 of Cabeço da Amoreira

    JIA — Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

    Paixão, E.

2013

  • Technological approaches on chert stone tool production in the Mesolithic of Muge (Portuguese Estremadura)

    EAA Annual Meeting

    Paixão, E., Marreiros, J., Cascalheira, J., Pereira, T., Gibaja, J., Bicho, N.

  • Techno-typological analysis of the lithic materials from the Trench area of Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Central Portugal)

    Muge 150th

    Cascalheira, J., Marreiros, J., Paixão, E., Pereira, T., Bicho, N.

  • A multidisciplinary approach to death: the study case of Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Portugal)

    VI Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica, Barcelona, Spain

    Figueiredo, O., Cascalheira, J., Dias, R., Gonçalves, C., Marreiros, J., Monteiro, P., Paixão, E., et al.

2012

  • Mira Nascente, a Late Pleistocene site in Southwest Iberia

    Paleoanthropology Society Meeting

    Paixão, E., Pereira, T., Haws, J., Benedetti, M., Gibaja, J., Bicho, N.