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Dulce Neves is a Phd candidate in Biological Anthropology (University of Coimbra) and History of Europe (Sapienza' University of Rome) under a Joint Supervision Programme. She is particularly interested in Prehistory and the socio-cultural development of ancient populations. Her research focuses on past diet, occupational habits and everyday life through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of dental remains. Dulce has experience working in commercial archaeology as a bioanthropologist and has experience in both field and laboratory work. She is part of the research group 'Past Cultures and Populations' based at the Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra. Dulce has collaborated with the Laboratory for Diet and Ancient Technology (Sapienza University of Rome), where she acquired experience in new cutting-edge approaches to dental analysis.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Dulce Isabel Almeida Neves

Citation names

  • Neves, Dulce

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
031E-A256-6808
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8796-9652

Email addresses

  • neves.d.95@gmail.com (Professional)
  • dulce.alm.neves@gmail.com (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Other Biological Topics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Italian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/11 - 2024
Ongoing
Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia dell'Europa (PhD in Histoy of Europe) (Dottorato di Ricerca)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2020/09 - 2024
Ongoing
Doutoramento em Antropologia [PhD in Anthropology] (Doutoramento)
Major in Antropologia Biológica [Biological Anthropology]
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2022/03/23
Concluded
strategies for Estimating Heritability with Teeth (Outros)
Dental Anthropology Association, United States
2022/02/11
Concluded
ICOPS - Basic Github Training (Outros)
International Committee on Open Phytolith Science, United Kingdom
2021/11/15
Concluded
AEA Open Science Workshop (Outros)
Association for Environmental Archaeology, United Kingdom
2021/02/01 - 2021/03/21
Concluded
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution (Outros)
Save Cultural Heritage Group, Pakistan
2021/03/18
Concluded
Public & Community Archaeology (Outros)
Triskele Heritage, United Kingdom
2021/03
Concluded
Build a Full Website using WordPress (Outros)
Coursera Project Network, United States
2020/05 - 2020/06
Concluded
Human bone histology morning coffee workshop series for biological anthropologists (Outros)
Australian National University School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australia
2020/05 - 2020/05
Concluded
Starch anticontamination guidelines (Outros)
Major in Archaeobotany
University of Calgary, Canada
2017/08/18 - 2019/09/10
Concluded
Evolução e Biologia Humanas [Human Evolution and Biology] (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Revisiting Miranda dapar de Podentes: Study of Oral Pathology in a sample of jaws from Alto do Calvário, Miranda do Corvo [Revisitando Miranda dapar de Podentes: Estudo da Patologia oral numa amostra de maxilares provenientes do Alto do Calvário, Miranda]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17.30
2019 - 2019
Concluded
La representación fotográfica para copias de objeto de estudio (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2019 - 2019
Concluded
Human Tooth Crown and Root Morphology - The Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2018 - 2018
Concluded
An Introduction to Stable Isotope and Mercury Analyses in Anthropology (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2018 - 2018
Concluded
Field Anthropology and Forensic Taphonomy (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/09/19 - 2017/06/01
Concluded
Antropologia Forense [Forensic Anthropology] (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
17.02
2013/09/10 - 2016/07/12
Concluded
Antropologia [Anthropology] (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
14.03
2015 - 2015
Concluded
Dental Anthropology Introductory course for ungraduated students (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2015 - 2015
Concluded
Medical-Legal Practices in Forensic Anthropology (Outros)
Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal
2008 - 2013/06
Concluded
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) (Outros)
C.U.L.O. - Centro Universal De Línguas De Ourém, Lda., Portugal
C1
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2019/10/16 - 2019/12/23 Research Trainee (Research) DANTE - Ancient Diet and Technology Laboratory, Italy
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Medicina e Odontoiatria, Italy
2019/10 - 2019/12 Research Trainee (Research) Servizio di Bioarcheologia, Museo Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini", Italy
Museo delle Civiltà, Italy
2017/03 - 2017/04 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018 - 2019 Tesoureira [Treasurer] Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Antropologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019 - Current Colaborator DANTE - Ancient Diet and Technology Laboratory, Italy
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2021/05 - 2022/02 Anthropologist [coordinator] in the necropolis of Largo de São Pedro, Leiria [Reabilitação do Largo de São Pedro e acesso ao Castelo de Leiria (LSP.21)] Archeo'Estudos, Investigação Arqueológica Lda., Portugal
Município de Leiria, Portugal
2020/01/27 - 2021/04 Anthropologist in Convento de S. Domingues (archaeological intervention), Abrantes, Portugal (Medieval-Modern Era) Trabalhador independente, Portugal
Município de Abrantes, Portugal
2021/01/11 - 2021/01/15 Anthropologist in Praça Luís de Camões, 14-15; Rua dos Quintais (archaeological intervention), Lagos, Portugal (Roman period) Trabalhador independente, Portugal
Salty Life, Lda., Portugal
2020/12 - 2020/12 Anthropologist (coordinator) during archeological supervision: Abertura de vala para implantação de infraestrutura elétrica, Rua da Ilha, Coimbra Trabalhador independente, Portugal
2020/11 - 2020/12 Anthropologist [coordinator] in Emergency archaeological intervention in Ourém Castle (Reabilitação do Castelo e Paço dos Condes de Ourém) Trabalhador independente, Portugal
Município de Ourém, Portugal
2020/06 - 2020/06 Anthropologist in Port./2019, Rua 5 de Outubro, 79-85 (Laboratorial analysis of human remains), Portimão, Portugal (15th-16th cent) Trabalhador independente, Portugal
2018/07 - 2018/08 Anthropologist in Emergency archaeological intervention in Bucelas (Loures, Portugal) (Medieval-Modern Necropolis) Município de Loures, Portugal
2018/07 - 2018/07 Voluntary in 4th archaeological campaign in Castro de Salreu, Estarreja (Aveiro, Portugal), Iron Age Centro de Arqueologia de Arouca, Portugal
2018/05 - 2018/07 Voluntary in archaeological excavation of São Simão Villa, Penela (Coimbra, Portugal) Espaço-Museu da Villa Romana do Rabaçal, Portugal
2018/05 - 2018/05 Voluntary in archaeological excavation in Montemor-O-Velho Castle, Coimbra, Portugal (Medieval-Modern Necropolis) Município de Montemor-O-Velho, Portugal
2017/08 - 2017/09 Voluntary in 4th archaeological campaign in São Julião Site, Albergaria-a-Velha (Aveiro, Portugal), Bronze Age Centro de Arqueologia de Arouca, Portugal
2017/07 - 2017/08 Voluntary in 3rd archaeological campaign in Castro de Salreu, Estarreja (Aveiro, Portugal), Iron Age Centro de Arqueologia de Arouca, Portugal
2016/08 - 2016/08 Voluntary in 3rd archaeological campaign in São Julião Site, Albergaria-a-Velha (Aveiro, Portugal), Bronze Age Centro de Arqueologia de Arouca, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/09 - Current BIOPOR - People, lifeways, and social complexity: a multidisciplinary approach to study Late Prehistoric biographies of Portugal
2021.04560.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

DANTE - Diet and Ancient Technology, Italy

Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2024 - 2024 Archaeologia Caraibica: lnsediamenti del Periodo Arcaico nelle Aree Orientali e Settentrionali della Repubblica Dominicana e l'Adattamento Umano all'Ecosistema Marino Pre-Colombiano
NI
PhD Student Fellow
DANTE - Diet and Ancient Technology, Italy
Ongoing
2016 - 2018 Antropologia Biológica no concelho de Ourém: Sistematização de descobertas e intervenções antropológicas
s/financiamento
Researcher
Município de Ourém, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Neves, Dulce; Silva, Ana Maria; Wasterlain, S.N.. "Surviving trauma in a pre-antibiotic era: A case-study of a mandibular injury in a medieval-modern Portuguese village". Paper presented in 48th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, 2021.
    Published
  2. Neves, Dulce; Palmeirão da Silva, Rute; Janeirinho, Vânia. "Dental modifications on possible fishermen recovered from a Modern necropolis (15th-16th centuries) in South Portugal (Portimão, Algarve)". Paper presented in Bioarchaeology Early Career Conference 2021, 2021.
    Published
  3. Neves, Dulce; Simões, Flávio; Silva, Ana Maria. "Estudo paleopatológico de um indivíduo adulto feminino proveniente da Necrópole Medieval do Alto do Calvário (séculos XI-XIII) - Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra". Paper presented in VI Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia: a saúde e a doença no passado (Coimbra, Portugal), Coimbra, 2018.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Neves, Dulce; Vale, Leonor; Rei, Seara; Silva, Ana Maria. "Brucellosis and pregnancy outcome in an archaeological context: a case study of a female and her fetus retrieved from Largo da Graça Necropolis, Ourém , Portugal (Medieval-Modern period)". Paper presented in 49th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, 2022.
  2. Neves, Dulce; Ana Maria Gama da Silva; Flávio Simões; Wasterlain, S.N.. "Periapical lesions in a Medieval-Modern rural population: the commingled remains from Alto do Calvário necropolis (Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra)". Paper presented in 7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology/VII Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, 2021.
  3. Neves, Dulce; Silva, Ana Maria; Simões, Flávio; Wasterlain, S.N.. "Periapical lesions in a Medieval-Modern Rural Population: The commingled remains from Alto do Calvário (Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra)". Paper presented in 7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology (Évora, Portugal) [Online] (Submitted), 2021.
  4. Neves, Dulce; Silva, Ana Maria; Wasterlain, S.N.. "Surviving trauma in a pre-antibiotic era: A case-study of a mandibular injury in a medieval-modern Portuguese village". Paper presented in 48th North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, 2021.
  5. Neves, Dulce; Simões, Flávio; Silva, Ana Maria. "Estudo paleopatológico de um indivíduo adulto feminino proveniente da Necrópole Medieval do Alto do Calvário (séc. XI-XIII) - Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra". Paper presented in VI Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia: a saúde e a doença no passado (Coimbra, Portugal), 2018.
Journal article
  1. Capasso, Giusy; Neves, Dulce; Sperduti, Alessandra; Cristiani, Emanuela; Manzo, Andrea. Corresponding author: Capasso, Giusy. "Direct evidence of plant consumption in Neolithic Eastern Sudan from dental calculus analysis". Scientific Reports 14 (2024): 4278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53300-z.
    Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41598-024-53300-z
  2. Dulce Neves; Ana Maria Silva; Flávio Simões; Sofia N. Wasterlain. Corresponding author: Dulce Neves. "More than they could chew: Activity-induced dental modifications in a Portuguese Medieval-Modern rural population". International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3113.
    10.1002/oa.3113
Report
  1. Neves, Dulce. 2022. Reabilitação do Largo de São Pedro e acesso ao Castelo de Leiria (LSP.21).
  2. Neves, Dulce. 2021. APO20-Reabilitação do Castelo e Paço dos Condes de Ourém: Análise paleobiológica e paleopatológica do material osteológico humano. Relatório final de Antropologia..
  3. Neves, Dulce; Curto, Ana Rita Quito. 2021. Abertura de vala para implantação de infraestrutura elétrica, Rua da Ilha, Coimbra. Relatório de Antropologia Biológica.
  4. Neves, Dulce. 2018. Biological Anthropology in Ourém Municipality: Systematization of anthropological findings and interventions.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Neves, Dulce. "Revisiting Miranda dapar de Podentes: Study of Oral Pathology in a sample of jaws from Alto do Calvário, Miranda do Corvo". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/88096.

Other

Other output
  1. Ancient dental calculus sampling procedure for optical microscopic analysis. 2023. https://iris.uniroma1.it/handle/11573/1693957.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/03 Health and environmental contaminants of Prehistoric Iberian communities: insights from ancient dental calculus analysis 51st Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association; Los Angeles, CA
2023/06 Health and diet of Late Neolithic/ Chalcolithic communities: new insights from ancient dental calculus analysis Advanced Seminar in Anthropology: Coimbra, Portugal
2023/03 Plant consumption in Neolithic Eastern Sudan: new evidence from dental calculus analysis 7th Sudan Studies Research Conference: Naples, Italy
2023 Commingled remains and dental paleopathology: Discussing the limits and potentials in the study of oral health status in historical populations 50th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association: Reno, Nevada
2022/11 Pessoas, modos de vida e complexidade social: uma abordagem multidisciplinar ao estudo da Pré-história Recente em Portugal PubHD: Coimbra, Portugal
2022 Dental caries and antemortem tooth loss in a rural population from Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra XVI Congreso Nacional e Internacional de Paleopatologia, Girona, Spain
2022 Mandibular canine transmigration: A rare case of tooth impaction from a Medieval-Modern Necropolis in Miranda-do-Corvo (Coimbra, Portugal). Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Évora, Portugal
2021/09 Dental caries and ante-mortem tooth loss in a rural population from Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra 7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology (Évora, Portugal) [Online] [Submited]
University of Évora (Portugal)
2021/03/27 Dental modifications on possible fishermen recovered from a Modern necropolis (15th-16th centuries) in South Portugal (Portimão, Algarve) Bioarchaeology Early Career Conference 2021
University of Glasgow [Online] (United Kingdom)
2021/03/10 Relatos de Estágios Profissionais em Antropologia Relatos de Estágios Profissionais em Antropologia
Núcleo de Estudantes de Antropologia da Associação Académica de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2016/06 - Current Voluntary in the organization of VI Congresso da APA [6th Congress of Portuguese Association of Anthropology] (2016/06)
Congress (Other)
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Marked in Life, Equals in Death? Understanding patterns of Social and Economic differentiation in funerary practices. Co-Organizer of the session S10 in JIA - XIV “Jornadas de Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica” (2023 - 2023)
Congress
2017 - 2018/04 BeAnthropology - Coimbra 2018: I Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Antropologia (2018/04/06 - 2018/04/08)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022 Event “Há ossos na Igreja...” [“There are bones in the church...”], 18th European Museum Night in Machado de Castro National Museum (Coimbra, 2022). Activity dedicated to children (6-18 yo) to present the main findings regarding the necropolis located in São João de Almedina Church (12th-17th century). 18th European Museum Night
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Workshop “A nossa História contada pelos ossos” [Our History told by the bones], organized by Ourém Municipality and dedicated to children (6-8 yo) to teach about the human skeleton and how anthropologist study past populations through the human skeleton.
Município de Ourém, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Oral presentation “Finais de vida prematuros na Idade Média: Apresentação da sepultura dupla descoberta na Vila Medieval de Ourém” [Premature Ends of Life in the Middle Ages: Presentation of the Double Grave Discovered in the Medieval Village of Ourém], presentation to the general public about some results of the project “Reabilitação do Castelo e Paço dos Condes de Ourém (APO20)”.
Conference
Município de Ourém, Portugal
2022 - 2022 1st International Meeting of Phd Students in Recent Prehistory
2021/03 - 2021/07 Encounters with our past: Seminars in Prehistory and related disciplines (Public lecture series)
Other
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2021/03/29 - 2021/04/01 12th Experimental Archaeology Conference #EAC12, World Tour
Conference
EXARC, Netherlands
2021/03/05 - 2021/03/05 Revisitar a Lapa da Galinha (Alcanena, Santarém): As práticas funerárias no Maciço Calcário Estremenho (4º e 3º Milénios A.N.E.) (Daniel van Calker)
Conference
Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Portugal
2021/03/03 - 2021/03/03 Towards understanding our deep human ancestry by studying ancient proteins (Dr. Frido Welker)
Seminar
The University of Winnipeg, Canada
2021/03/03 - 2021/03/03 Writing Public Anthropology
Seminar
California Series in Public Anthropology (Webinar)
Brown University, United States
2021/03 - 2021/03 Bioarchaeology Early Career Conference 2021
Conference
University of Glasgow Archaeology, United Kingdom
2021/01 - 2021/03 Lecture series: Zooming in Archaeological Biomaterial Laboratories
Other
Animals make identities
Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
2021/02/15 - 2021/02/15 How to get published in a Scientific Journal: a workshop for students and early-career archaeologists by the SBA and SAS on publishing in peer-reviewed journals, especially on archaeological science and historical archaeology
Workshop
Society for Archaeological Sciences, United States
2021/02/08 - 2021/02/08 A morte no Mesolítico através das Arqueociências [Death in the Mesolithic through Archeosciences] (Rita Peyroteo-Stjerna)
Conference
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2021/02/04 - 2021/02/04 Beyond an Archaeology of Art and the Interpretation of the Past (Doug Bailey)
Conference
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/07 - 2020/08 Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management
Other
(Online, Coursera Inc.)
University of Virginia, United States
2020/05 - 2020/05 "Comunicar Ciência: como (não) comunicar em público" por Dr. Milene Matos da Associação Bioliving, no âmbito da iniciativa BioLousada em casa
Conference
Comunicar Ciência: como (não) comunicar em público (BioLousada em casa)
Bioliving Association, Portugal
2019/10 - 2019/10 Archaeology of change. Models, processes, adaptations in Prehistory and Protohistory (54 st Scientific Meeting)
Meeting
54 st Scientific Meeting
Museo delle Civiltà, Italy

Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Italy
2019 - 2019 Sessão de Esclarecimento acerca dos mestrados em Antropologia disponíveis no Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Conference
Sessão de Esclarecimento acerca dos mestrados em Antropologia disponíveis no Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Núcleo de Estudantes de Antropologia da Associação Académica de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2018 VI Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia
Congress
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2017 - 2017 O corpo e as biotecnologias: reflexões de biodireito, bioética e biopolítica
Meeting
Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Direito Biomédico, Portugal
2016 - 2016 V Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia
Congress
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2015 - 2015 International Symposium on Anthropology and Natural Disasters
Symposium
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020/11 - Current Paleopathology Association (PPA)
2019 - Current CIAS - Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra) Researcher (Past Cultures and Populations Research Group)
2018 - 2019 Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Antropologia - ANEANT Treasury management
Distinctions

Award

2024 Cockburn Student Prize (runner-up)
The Paleopathology Association, United States

Other distinction

2019 Quadro de Mérito UC
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal