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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Simon Davis

Citation names

  • Davis, Simon

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F01B-5F32-4F3B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3124-1638
Scopus Author Id
8564965000

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
1979
Concluded
 Zoology (Doutoramento)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
"Large mammals of the Upper Pleistocene of Israel" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Louvor e distinção
1973
Concluded
 Zoology (Mestrado)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
"Animal remains from Ein Gev I" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
1971
Concluded
 Zoology (Bacharelato)
University College London, United Kingdom
 18
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008 - 2008 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
1973 - 1976 Assistant (University Teacher) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - Current Investigador integrado Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2000/01/01 - 2020/01/01 Zoo-Archaeologist Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Investigador Integrado Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
1994 - 2016 Member of the "Comité de rédaction" Paléorient, France
2009 - 2009 Lecturer (course os 20 lectures: Evolution; man ans animals") Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1991 - 1999 Introductory course in Zoo-archaeology for archaeology undergraduates (second year) University of Reading, United Kingdom
1988 - 1999 Zoo-Archaeologist English Heritage, United Kingdom
1985 - 1985 Lecturer (Series of lectures on human evolution for undergraduate zoology course) University College London, United Kingdom
1983 - 1984 Chargé de Recherche (working on Pleistocene and Holocene faunal remains) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Mission Permanente, , Israel
1981 - 1983 Demonstrator and Tutor (Zoology) University College of London, Department of Zoology, United Kingdom
1981 - 1982 Post-doctoral fellowship (Royal Society. Studied island populations of mice from Britain and Faroe) University College of London, Department of Zoology, United Kingdom
1977 - 1979 Instructor The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Tracing the origins and evolutionary paths of the Iberian and the Maghreb Dog
PTDC/HAR-ARQ/29545/2017
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/06/01 - 2019/03/01 The archaeogenetics of Iberian cattle: investigating their origins, evolution and improvement
PTDC/CVT-LIV/2827/2014
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/03/01 - 2015/08/31 HDI - Horse Domestication in Iberia - What else is there to be known?
PTDC/HIS-ARQ/120183/2010
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Instituto Gestao do Patrimonio Arquitectonico e Aqueologico, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/01/09 - 2015/07/08 BACK TO SADO: A CASE STUDY BETWEEN LAST HUNTER-GATHERERS AND FIRST AGRO-PASTORALIST SOCIETIES IN SOUTHERN PORTUGAL
PTDC/HIS-ARQ/121592/2010
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/04/01 - 2013/09/30 An iberian ship for the Atlantic: shipbuilding, life aboard and Angra port of call in 16th and 17th centuries
PTDC/HIS-ARQ/104084/2008
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/02/01 - 2013/07/31 Tracing back animal domestication in Iberia: Clues from zooarchaeology and DNA analysis
PTDC/HIS-ARQ/100225/2008
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Instituto Gestao do Patrimonio Arquitectonico e Aqueologico, Portugal

Universidade Aberta, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/01/01 - 2013/06/30 MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ALMONDA KARSTIC SYSTEM
PTDC/HIS-ARQ/098164/2008
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Davis, S.J.M.; Robert, I.; Zilhão, J.. Caldeirão cave (Central Portugal) - Whose home? Hyaena, man, bearderd vulture.... 2007.
  2. Davis, Simon. The Archaeology of animals. London, United Kingdom: Batsford. 1987.
Book chapter
  1. Davis, Simon; Sendim, Alfredo. "Measurements of bones of seven female Barrosãs and one male Barrosão (Bos taurus L. 1758): a baseline for zooarchaeologists with notes on the evolution of Portuguese aurochsen and cattle". In Estudios de arqueozoología y taxonomía de la Península Ibérica. Homenaje al Profesor Manuel Pérez Ripoll, edited by Real, C.; Emili V. Villaverde, 61-86. Spain: Saguntém-Extra, 2020.
    Published
  2. Davis, Simon; Simões, Teresa. "Early Neolithic Portuguese sheep (Ovis aries): were they shipped across the Mediterranean 8000 years ago?". In Farmers at the Frontier: a pan-European perspective on Neolithisation, edited by Gron, K.; Sørensen, L.; Rowley-Conwy, P, 177-199. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxbow Books, 2020.
    Published
  3. Davis, Simon. "Extinction, arrival and improvement of Lusitanian animals". France, 2015.
  4. Davis, Simon. "I resti faunistici". Italy, 2009.
Journal article
  1. Davis, Simon J M. "Rabbits and Bergmann’s rule: how cold was Portugal during the last glaciation?". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 128 3 (2019): 526-549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz098.
    10.1093/biolinnean/blz098
  2. Pires, Ana Elisabete; Detry, Cleia; Chikhi, Lounes; Rasteiro, Rita; Amorim, Isabel R.; Simoes, Fernanda; Matos, Jose; et al. "The curious case of the Mesolithic Iberian dogs: An archaeogenetic study". (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14352.
    10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.002
  3. Davis, Simon J.M.; Gabriel, Sónia; Simões, Teresa. "Animal remains from Neolithic Lameiras, Sintra: the earliest domesticated sheep, goat, cattle and pigs in Portugal and some notes on their evolution". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/36508.
    10.15366/archaeofauna2018.27.006
  4. Davis, Simon J. M.; Albarella, Umberto; Detry, Cleia; Ginja, Catarina; Götherström, Anders; Pires, Ana Elisabete; Sendim, Alfredo; Svensson, Emma M.. "An osteometrical method for sexing cattle bones: the metacarpals from 17th century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/36507.
  5. Davis, S.J.M.; Vilhena, J.C.. "Animal remains from Iron Age and Roman Odemira, Portugal". Archaeofauna 26 (2017): 199-217. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85021840356&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  6. Bennett, E.A.; Champlot, S.; Peters, J.; Arbuckle, B.S.; Guimaraes, S.; Pruvost, M.; Bar-David, S.; et al. "Taming the late Quaternary phylogeography of the Eurasiatic wild ass through ancient and modern DNA". PLoS ONE 12 4 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85018480060&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0174216
  7. Davis, S.J.M.; Svensson, E.M.; Albarella, U.; Detry, C.; Götherström, A.; Pires, A.E.; Ginja, C.. "Molecular and osteometric sexing of cattle metacarpals: A case study from 15th century AD Beja, Portugal". Journal of Archaeological Science 39 5 (2012): 1445-1454. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84857116464&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jas.2011.12.003
  8. Trinkaus, Erik; Bailey, S.; Davis, Simon J. M.; Zilhão, João. "Magdalenian Human Remains from the Galeria da Cisterna (Almonda karstic system, Torres Novas, Portugal)". (2011): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/9785.
  9. Zilhão, J.; Davis, S.J.M.; Duarte, C.; Soares, A.M.M.; Steier, P.; Wild, E.. "Pego do Diabo (Loures, Portugal): Dating the emergence of anatomical modernity in Westernmost Eurasia". PLoS ONE 5 1 (2010): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77952277839&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0008880
  10. Davis, Simon. "Size variation of the fox, Vulpes vulpes in the palaearctic region today, and in Israel during the late Quaternary". Journal of Zoology 182 3 (2009): 343-351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1977.tb03914.x.
    10.1111/j.1469-7998.1977.tb03914.x
  11. Pereira, F.; Queirós, S.; Gusmão, L.; Nijman, I.J.; Cuppen, E.; Lenstra, J.A.; Consortium, E.; et al. "Tracing the history of goat pastoralism: New clues from mitochondrial and y chromosome DNA in North Africa". Molecular Biology and Evolution 26 12 (2009): 2765-2773. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70450231699&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/molbev/msp200
  12. Davis, S.; MacKinnon, M.. "Did the Romans bring fallow deer to Portugal?". Environmental Archaeology 14 1 (2009): 15-26. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-73949154856&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1179/174963109X400646
  13. Davis, S.J.M.. "Zooarchaeological evidence for Moslem and Christian improvements of sheep and cattle in Portugal". Journal of Archaeological Science 35 4 (2008): 991-1010. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-38949193924&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jas.2007.07.001
  14. Pereira, F.; Davis, S.J.M.; Pereira, L.; McEvoy, B.; Bradley, D.G.; Amorim, A.. "Genetic signatures of a Mediterranean influence in Iberian Peninsula sheep husbandry". Molecular Biology and Evolution 23 7 (2006): 1420-1426. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33745623627&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/molbev/msl007
  15. Davis, S.; Payne, S.. "101 methods of treating a dead hedgehog: Notes regarding the preparation of disarticulated skeletons for use in zooarcheology,101 modos de tratar un erizo muerto: Notas sobre la preparación de esqueletos desarticulados para uso zooarqueológico". Archaeofauna 12 (2003): 203-211. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-59849114684&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  16. Davis, S.J.M.. "British agriculture: Texts for the zoo-archaeologist". Environmental Archaeology 7 (2002): 47-60. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-60949868887&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  17. Davis, S.J.M.. "The effect of castration and age on the development of the Shetland sheep skeleton and a metric comparison between bones of males, females and castrates". Journal of Archaeological Science 27 5 (2000): 373-390. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0033920093&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1006/jasc.1999.0452
  18. Davis, S.J.M.; Beckett, J.V.. "Animal husbandry and agricultural improvement: The archaeological evidence from animal bones and teeth". Rural History 10 1 (1999): 1-17. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0033018619&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  19. Davis, S.J.M.. "Measurements of a group of adult female Shetland sheep skeletons from a single flock: A baseline for zooarchaeologists". Journal of Archaeological Science 23 4 (1996): 593-612. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0006011987&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1006/jasc.1996.0056
  20. Davis, S.; Payne, S.. "A barrow full of cattle skulls". Antiquity 67 254 (1993): 12-22. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0027488185&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  21. Henry, D.O.; Leroi-Gourham, A.; Davis, S.; Leroi-Gourhan, A.. "The excavation of Hayonim terrace: an examination of terminal Pleistocene climatic adaptive changes.". Journal of Archaeological Science 8 1 (1981): 35-58. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0019365593&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  22. Davis, S.J.M.. "The effects of temperature change and domestication on the body size of Late Pleistocene to Holocene mammals of Israel.". Paleobiology 7 1 (1981): 101-114. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0019368334&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  23. DAVIS, SIMON J.. "Late Pleistocene and Holocene equid remains from Israel". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 70 3 (1980): 289-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1980.tb00854.x.
    10.1111/j.1096-3642.1980.tb00854.x
  24. Davis, Simon. "A note on the dental and skeletal ontogeny of Gazella.". Israel Journal of Zoology 29 (1980): 129-134.
  25. Davis, S.J.M.; Davis, Simon. "Late pleistocene-holocene gazelles of Northern Israel". Israel Journal of Zoology 29 1-3 (1980): 135-140. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-24944555212&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/00212210.1981.10688492
  26. DAVIS, SIMON J. M.; VALLA, FRANÇOIS R.. "Evidence for domestication of the dog 12,000 years ago in the Natufian of Israel". Nature 276 5688 (1978): 608-610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/276608a0.
    10.1038/276608a0
  27. Davis, S.; Davis, Simon. "Mammal bones from the Early Bronze Age City of Arad, northern Negev, Israel: Some implications concerning human exploitation". Journal of Archaeological Science 3 2 (1976): 153-164. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0342458932&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0305-4403(76)90082-0
  28. Davis, Simon. "Animal remains from the Kebaran site of Ein Gev l, Jordan valley, Israel". Paléorient 2 (1974): 453-462.
    Published
  29. Davis, Simon. "Incised bones from the Mousterian of Kebara cave and the Aurignacian of Hayonim cave, Israel.". Paléorient 2 (1974): 181-182.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020 On the origin of domesticated animals in Portugal – a view from the Near East class “Art and Animals - Man and Beast”
New York Academy of Art (New York, United States)
2020 Can we use rabbit bones to estimate how cold was Portugal 20,000 years ago? Arqueologia em Construção
Uniarq, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019 Tamanho, forma e genes: o melhoramento de gado em Portugal (e Inglaterra) nos últimos dois milênios
Uniarq, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019 On the origin of domesticated animals in southern Portugal…..a view from the Near East. Workshop: "Minorias e transições na Idade Média através da Zoo-arqueologia (séculos X-XV)".
Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019 Climate, domestication, livestock improvement and sex: aurochsen and cattle bones from late Pleistocene & Holocene Portugal and the Near East (and England) Archaic
CIBIO (Vairão, Portugal)
2018 Can we use rabbit bones to estimate how cold was Portugal 20,000 years ago?/¿Podemos usar huesos de conejo para estimar cuánto frío hizo en Portugal hace 20,000 años? Encuentros de Arqueología del Suroeste Peninsular
(Zafra, Spain)
2018 Os metacarpos de Bos taurus de Carnide: melhoramento do gado bovino e uma ferramenta para a distinção entre sexos
Centro de Arqueologia de Lisboa
2017 Mammal bones from Lameiras – the first sheep in Portugal ‘Kunst-Kluster’ conference
German Archaeological Institute
2017 Lapiás de Lameiras mother of Portuguese Early Neolithic sites EZI - Encontro de Zooarqueologia Ibérica
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2015 Towards a metrical distinction between sheep and goat astragali Symposium of Osteoarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology
(Pineda de Mar, Spain)
2015 Ibéria Romana Algumas considerações zooarqueologicas O mundo animal na romanização da Península Ibérica
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2015 Les mammifères néolithiques de Khirokitia: st¿s¿¿ et changement sur une île océanique Nouvelles données sur les débuts du Néolithique à Chypre
Société préhistorique française (Paris, France)
2015 Ossos de mamíferos de Lameiras - as primeiras ovelhas de Portugal
Associação de Arqueólogos Portugueses (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014 On the origin of domesticated animals in southern Portugal…a view from the Near East ICAZ - Archaeogenetics Working Group Meeting
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/12 Quão frio era Portugal há 20000 anos? Os ossos de coelho como paleotermómetro uma contribuição da zooarqueologia APEQ – FCUL
(Porto, Portugal)
2013 El así llamado Revoluciones agrícolas Romanización no Península Ibérica
(Léon, Spain)
2013 Zooarchaeological evidence for a crisis in the Mesolithic Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia (ASWA) conference
Haifa University (Haifa, Israel)
2012 A fauna de Khirokitia: stasis e mudanças numa ilha oceânica: Algumas reflexões preliminares sobre Chipre e os restos de mamíferos encontrados em Khirokitia nas escavações de Alain e Odile Le Brun entre 1977 e 2007.
Museo Nacional de Arqueologia (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 Zooarqueologia no laboratório de Arqueociências (CIPA) do IGESPAR – trabalhos a decorrer.
CiBIO (Porto, Portugal)
2011 2011 , Universidade Porto. Molecular and osteometrical sexing of cattle metacarpals agree – evidence for Christian improvement of cattle in Portugal. Conferencia – Ancient DNA and Variation in human populations
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2011 A importância das medidas na Zooarqueologia
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011 Zooarchaeological evidence for the agricultural revolutions in both England and Portugal.
Dept. Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain)
2011 L’homme et l’animal au Portugal depuis la dernière glaciaire. Colloque l’animal dans le monde lusophone: du réel à l’imaginaire
Centre culturel Calouste Gulbenkian (Paris, France)
2011 La faune de Khirokitia stasis et changement sur une île océanique Table rond sur la Néolithique de Chypre
Musée d’Histoire naturelle (Paris, France)
2010 Fallow deer in Cypriot pre-history and Portuguese history - some zooarchaeological finds that shed light on our Neolithic and Roman ancestors. International Council of Archaeozoology conference
(Paris, France)
2010 A brief ABC of zooarchaeology for DNA people, or how we study bones International Council of Archaeozoology conference
(Paris, France)
2009 Zooarqueologia no CIPA desde Janeiro 2000 - uma miscelânea de descobertas e trabalhos a decorrer.
Associação de Arqueólogos Portugueses
2009 Caldeirão cave, Portugal – whose home: hyaena, man … ? Reunión de científicos sobre cubiles de hiena … de la Península Ibérica
Museo Arqueológico (Alcalá de Henares) (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
2007 As Revoluções Agrícolas” em Inglaterra e em Portugal – evidência zooarqueológica
Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdadae de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2005 O melhoramento dos ovinos em Portugal – novos dados zoo-arqeológicos
Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências Veterinárias (Lisbon, Portugal)
2004 Origin of domestic animals – some zoo-archaeological evidence from the Near East Portugaliae genetica
IPPATIMUP (Porto, Portugal)
2004 Animal remains from Caldeirão cave (Portugal): carnivores or people as bone accumulators? Senckenberg Palaeontological Colloquium
(Weimar)
2002 Animals from Caldeirão cave, Portugal – carnivores or people as bone accumulators International Council of Archaeozoology conference
University of Durham (Durham, United Kingdom)
2001 The zoo-archaeology of Khirokitia (Neolithic Cyprus), including a view from the mainland Colloque sur le Néolithique de Chypre
(Nicosia, Cyprus)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2008 - 2014 The influence of Roman, Moslem and Christian cultures on the livestock of Portugal"
Supervisor
 Post-doctoral grant (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
2007 - 2011 Estudo zooarqueológico de comunidades islâmicas do Algarve
Supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2009 - 2010 "The Romans in the Iberian Peninsula. Animals as evidence of socio-economic change and cultural identity"
Supervisor
 Post-Doctoral Grant (Scientific initiation)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Osteological study of quail from Portugal and the Azores archipelago
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto, Portugal