Ana Maria Costa

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG2 – Earth Surface Processes
Position at IDL: Colaborator
Job: Geoarchaeologist at Laboratório de Arqueociências, Património Cultural, I.P
Email: anamcncosta@gmail.com 

Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

BSc – Geology (Univ. Lisbon)

MSc – Geology, Dinamic Geology (Univ. Lisbon)

PhD – Prehistoric Archaeology (Univ. Cantabria);

Main interests: Geoarchaeology, Sedimentology, Quaternary Geology, Environmental Evolution, Geomorphology, Archaeology;

Scientific Informations

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2527-9979

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57192319431

Researcher ID: https://publons.com/researcher/2593916/ana-m-costa/

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Costa45/research

Scientific Interests

Top 10 Publications: 

  1. Alonso-Fernández ES, Vaquero M, Daura J, Costa AM, Sanz M, Araújo AC (2023). Refits, cobbles, and fire: Approaching the temporal nature of na expediente Gravettian lithic assemblage from Lagar Velhor (Leiria, Portugal). PLoS ONE 18(12):e0294866. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294866.

  2. Sanz M, Daura J, Costa AM, Araújo AC (2023). The characterization of bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) coprolites in the archaeological record. Scientific Reports 13(1):57. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25288-x.

  3. Costa AM, Freitas MC, Jimenéz-González MA, Jiménez-Morillo NT, Dias CB, Val-Péon C, Reicherter K, Fatela F, Araújo AC, Gabriel S, Leira M, Diniz M, Arias P (2022). A multidisciplinary approach to characterise the Early-Middle Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Sado Valley of Portugal: Implications for late Mesolithic human communities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 598, 111015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111015.

  4. Ochando J, Carrión JS, Daura J, Sanz M, Araújo AC, Costa AM (2022). Coprolite palynology from Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and a revision of Gravettian vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 299, 104609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104609.

  5. Costa AM, Freitas MC, Leira M, Fonseca R, Duarte J, Diniz M, Arias P (2021). Late Holocene evolution of a Mediterranean incised river flowing to the Atlantic: Sedimentary dynamics, fluvial activity and paleoenvironmental reconstruction (SW Iberia). Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.12.002.

  6. Daura J, Sanz M, Demuro M, Arnold L, Costa AM, Moreno J, Freitas MC, Lopes V, Eguez N, Hoffman D, Benson A, García-Targa J, Fullola JM (2021). Neanderthal and Anatomical Modern Human occupancies at NE of Iberian Peninsula; chronological framework and site formation of Cova del Gegant (Barcelona). Quaternary Science Reviews 270, 10714. https://doi.org10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107141.

  7. López-García JM, Pimenta C, Araújo AC, Costa AM, Sanz M, Daura J (2021). Using small mammals to reconstruct the climatic context of the late Pleistocene Lagar Velho rock-shelter (Leiria, Portugal). Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 34(2), 201-211. hppts://doi.org/ 10.26382/AMQ.2021.04.

  8. Mil-Homens M, Brito P, Caetano M, Costa AM, Lebreiro S, Trancoso M, de Stigter H (2021). Influence of diagenetic processes and terrestrial / anthropogenic sources in REE of the Cascais submarine canyon (Iberian western coast). The Science of Total Environment 773, 145539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145539.

  9. Currás A, Costa AM, Freitas MC, Danielsen R, Bugalhão J (2020). Landscape Change and Vegetation history in the city of Lisbon during Roman times and the Early Medieval Period. The Holocene 31(1), 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620961514.

  10. Costa AM, Freitas MC, Leira M, Costas S, Costa PJM, Andrade C, Bao R, Duarte J, Rodrigues A, Cachão M, Araújo AC, Diniz M, Arias P (2019). The role of climate, marine influence and sedimentation rates in Late Holocene estuarine evolution (SW Portugal). The Holocene 29(4): 622–632.

Projects (10 most relevant): 

  • ECOFREEDOM - Ecologies of Freedom: Materialities of Slavery and Post-emancipation in the Atlantic World, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - PTDC/HAR-ARQ/4540/2021.

  • Las societats caçadores recol-lectores del paleolític mitjà i superior: estratègies de subsistência i canvis climàtics, Generalitat de Catalunya – CTL/2022/ARQ001SOLC/128.

  • COASTTRAN – Coastal Transitions: A comparative approach to the processes of neolithization in Atlantic Europe, HAR2011-29907-C03-00, financed by Ministério de Economia e Competitividade de Espanha.

  • CoChange – Coastal societies in a changing world, HAR2014-51830-P, financed by Ministério de Economia e Competitividade de Espanha.

  • SimTIC – Símbolos subterráneos: Una aproximación al pensamiento de los cazadores-recolectores del Tardiglacial y el Holoceno usando tecnologías informáticas, HAR2017-82557-P, financed by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Gobierno de España.

  • PIPA/2018- O Abrigo do Lagar Velho e os primeiros humanos modernos do extremo ocidental europeu. DGPC (Direção-Geral do Património Cultural), 2018-2021

Books & Chapters (up to 10): 

Costa A. M., Freitas M. C., Mota, R., Leira M., Andrade C., Pimentel N., Araújo A. C., Bao R., Diniz M., Arias P., 2019. Sado palaeovalley configuration: implications for the Mesolithic settlement during the Holocene sea-level rise. In Roque, A, Brito, C, and Veracini, C (Eds.): People, Nature and Environments: Learning to live together. Part 4 – Landscape and Heritage, Chapter thirteen. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 176-194.

 

Conferences (last 15 presentations): 

  1. Araújo AC, Costa AM, Sanz M, Lucena A, Daura J (2023). O Abrigo do Lagar Velho revisitado. In Arnaud JM, Neves C & Martins A (Coord.), Arqueologia em Portugal, 2023 – Estado da Questão. IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses. Paper presented at IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (61-74), Coimbra, Portugal, 22-25 November. Lisboa: Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, CEAACP, CEIS20 e IA-FLUC. ISBN: 978-972-9451-98-0.

  2. Arvela R, Costa AM, Freitas MC, Coelho RG (2023). Evolução ambiental do estuário do rio Cacheu, Guiné-Bissau: dados preliminares. In Arnaud JM, Neves C &Martins A (Coord.), Arqueologia em Portugal, 2023 – Estado da Questão. IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses. Paper presented at IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portuguese (1517-1524), Coimbra, Portugal, 22-25 November. Lisboa: Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, CEAACP, CEIS20 e IA-FLUC. ISBN: 978-972- 9451-98-0.

  3. Silva MO, Costa AM, Freitas MC, Bettencourt J, Silva IM, Nunes T, Ponce M, Bugalhão J (2023). Condições ambientais e contexto arqueológico na margem estuarina de Lisboa: dados preliminares da sondagem Essentia (Av. 24 de Julho | Rua Dom Luís I). In Arnaud JM, Neves C & Martins A (Coord.), Arqueologia em Portugal, 2023 – Estado da Questão. IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses. Paper presented at IV Congresso dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (1503-1516), Coimbra, Portugal, 22-25 November. Lisboa: Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, CEAACP, CEIS20 e IA-FLUC. ISBN: 978-972-9451-98-0.

  4. Costa AM, Simplício C, Fonseca C, Bugalhão J, Tereso J, Bettencourt J, Gonçalves JA, Lago M, Barros P, Silva RB (2023). Recomendações de boas práticas em Arqueologia de Ambientes Húmidos. In Arnaud JM, Neves C & Martins A (Coord.), Arqueologia em Portugal, 2023 – Estado da Questão. IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses. Paper presented at IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (2245-2260), Coimbra, Portugal, 22-25 November. Lisboa: Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, CEAACP, CEIS20 e IA-FLUC. ISBN: 978-972-9451-98-0.

  5. Coelho RG, Arvela R, Costa AM, Freire D, Freitas MC, Gabriel S, Gomes S, Lopes MC, Mendes P, Oliveira C, Simões S, Tereso J (2023). In Arnaud JM, Neves C & Martins A (Coord.), Arqueologia em Portugal, 2023 – Estado da Questão. IV Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses. Paper presented at IV Congresso dos Arqueólogos Portuguese (2433-2440), Coimbra, Portugal, 22-25 November. Lisboa: Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, CEAACP, CEIS20 e IA-FLUC. ISBN: 978-972- 9451-98-0.

  6. Arnold LJ, Demuro M, Duval M, Daura J, Sanz M, Costa AM, Araújo AC (2023). Comparative chronological assessments of the early Upper Palaeolithic sedimentary sequence at Lagar Velho rock shelter. 17 th Internacional Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating conference. Copenhagen, Denmark, 25 th -30 th June. Oral presentation.

  7. Costa AM, Freitas MC, Coelho RG (2023). Environmental changes in the Atlantic World: how did the trade of enslaved people shape the landscape? XI Congresso Nacional de Geologia. Coimbra, Portugal, 17-19 July. Oral presentation.

  8. Freitas MC, Costa AM, Cruces A, Fonseca R (2023). Regional background values for metals in Sado sediments. XI Congresso Nacional de Geologia. Coimbra, Portugal, 17- 19 July. Oral presentation.

  9. Costa AM, Freitas MC, Teixeira A, Costa P, Santos R, Cachão M, Fatela F, Pereira R, Lopes V, El-Boudjay A (2023). Multidisciplinary approach to characterize the environmental and coastal evolution at Ksar Seghir, Morocco: natural processes, extreme events and historical occupation. XXI INQUA Congress: Time for Change, Rome, Italy, 14 th -20 th July. Oral presentation.

  10. Costa AM, Bugalhão J, Freitas MC (2023). Estuarine coastline evolution of the northern Tagus margin combining geological, archaeological ans cartographic data. XXI INQUA Congress: Time for Change, Rome, Italy, 14 th -20 th July. Poster presentation.

  11. Costa AM, Freitas MC, Coelho RG (2023). Slavery, colonialismo, and environmental changes: The Sado (Portugal) an Cacheu (Guinea-Bissau) estuaries between the 15 th - 20 th centuries. 29 th EAA (European Archaeologist Association) Annual Meeting: Weaving Narratives. Belfast, UK, 30 th August – 2 nd September. Oral presentation.

  12. Simões S, Costa AM, Oliveira C, Tereso J, Freitas MC, Lopes MC, Mendes P, Coelho RG, Arvela R, Gomes SD, Gabriel S (2023). The environmental impacts of slavery in two diferente regions of the Atlantic world: Cacheu (Guinea-Bissau) and Sado (Portugal, Southwestern Europe). Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference - Climate Archaeology: Temporalities and ontologies. East Anglia, England, 18 th -20 th December. Oral presentation.

  13. Daura, J., Araújo, A.C., Sanz, M., Costa, A.M (2022). New insights on the Upper Paleolithic site of Lagar Velho rock shelter (Lapedo Valley, Portugal). PaleoAnthropology 2022:2: 454. Paper presented at ESHE, European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Tübingen, 21-25 September (https://doi.org/10.48738/2022.iss2.809).

  14. Costa, A.M., Freitas, M.C., Mota, R., Leira, M., Arias, P. (2022). Palaeomorphology and environmental evolution of the Sado incised valley, SW Portugal. Paper presented at 10 th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology, Coimbra, 12-16 September (https://doi.org/10.5194/icg2022-735).

  15. Vettese, D., Sanz, M., Daura, J., Costa, A.M., Araújo, A.C. (2022). Spatial analyses of the distribution of taphonomic marks on long animal bones of Lagar Velho rock- shelter (Early Gravettian), in Lapedo Valley (Leiria, Portugal). In Fernández-Jalvo, Y. Alcalá, L., Domínguez-García, A.C., García-Morato, S., Gutiérres, A., Sevilla, P. (special Eds.), Jounal of Taphonomy 16(1-4), 205-206. Paper presented at TAPHOS, 9 th Internacional Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization, 6 th ICAZ Taphonomy Working Group Meeting (ICAZ-TWG), The 80 th Anniversary of Efremov’s Taphonomy, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), 5-11 June (www.journaltaphonomy.com).

Awards: 

  • 2º Prize in the Contest Divulgação Científica #PhDenlaUC, edição 2020/2021, Universidad de Cantábria Paisages Perdidos: Los últimos cazadores del SO Ibérico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3wn7q6ml4k&t=19s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoWNx1WO_Tc

  • Award Almirante Teixeira da Mota, 2008, Academia da Marinha, Marinha Portuguesa with the work “Variations of hemipelagic sedimentation in the submarine Cascais Canyon and adjacent slopes for the last 150 years”