Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology - Laboratório de Antropologia Forense

On 22 July, the LFA welcomed students from the Institute for Field Research (IFR, USA) as part of the field school Death in the Late Medieval Period: The Lagares Necropolis Bioarchaeology Laboratory Project, Lisbon (Portugal), organised by Era Arqueologia.

Marina Lourenço participated in the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, held in Oulu, Finland, from 10–12 June.
She presented the work entitled "Personhood in Death: Negotiating Belonging in a Modern Conventual Non-Adult Necropolis (Lisbon)".

📰 Archaeological fieldwork in Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel (Azores)

Daniela Cabral is currently taking part in the archaeological excavations at the Convent of Santo André, in Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel (Azores). As part of her PhD research, she is contributing to the excavation and study of newly uncovered burials in the chancel of the church.

The work was recently featured by Lusa and published in the newspaper Açoriano Oriental.

🔗 https://www.lusa.pt/article/47484326/escavações-revelam-novos-enterramentos-na-capela-mor-de-igreja-de-vila-franca-do-campo

Schneidar Guerreiro participated in the 35ª Reunião Brasileira de Antropologia (RBA), held in Goiás, Brazil, from July 13 to 17.

She presented the study entitled “Confiabilidade e precisão de métodos morfológicos cranianos em uma amostra da Coleção de Esqueletos Identificados Século XXI”, co-authored with Renata Castro, Maria Teresa Ferreira, and Francisco Curate. She was also a co-author of the study “Territorialidade, identidade e resistência: uma análise antropológica da Comunidade Quilombola Visão de Águia (Tocantins, Brasil)”, authored by Renata Castro, Maria Cecília Kayal, Cláudia Parellada, and Schneidar Guerreiro.

📃New Paper

"Best practice for forensic anthropology reporting: a statement by the Board of the Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE)"

Read here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00414-026-03903-0

Congratulations, Félix!

Yesterday, June 30, Félix Rodrigues defended his PhD thesis in Biological Anthropology: "O impacto do uso militar da Base das Lajes na Biologia Humana e na saúde da população da Praia da Vitória (ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal): Análise das alterações químicas e paleopatológicas na primeira Coleção de Esqueletos Identificados dos Açores". The work was supervised by Professor Maria Teresa Ferreira, Professor Vítor Matos, and Professor Armando Mendes.

📃New Paper

"Uniquely marked in bone: a case report of identification through distinctive features"

Read here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41935-026-00554-5

📃 New Paper

"From pocket to profile: Scale-free pelvic s*x estimation from 3D photogrammetry"

Read here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00414-026-03860-8

Congratulations, Beatriz!

Yesterday, June 1st, Maria Beatriz Barreiro defended her PhD thesis in Forensic Anthropology "Bright Clues: Fluorescence as a method for detecting skeletal remains with heat-induced changes". The work was supervised by Professor Maria Teresa Ferreira and Professor António Miguel Morgado.

As part of the International Museum Day programme, Marina Lourenço participated in the initiative “Museus a unir um mundo dividido”, organized by the Museu de Arte Pré-Histórica e do Sagrado do Vale do Tejo, in Mação.

On May 23rd, Marina Lourenço and Professor Silvério Figueiredo (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar) presented the lecture “Da África para o mundo, A Humanidade uma única espécie”.