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I am a geoarchaeologist interested in unravelling past human behavior from its sedimentary signatures. My main interests concern the interaction between past humans and their environment. I focus on two main lines of research: (1) reconstructing the context and site formation processes underlying the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and emergence of Anatomically Modern Humans; and (2) deciphering behavioral events from anthropogenic sediments, such as Paleolithic fire use, Neandertal funerary behavior, and the construction of shell mounds. I am particularly interested in assessing the ¿invisible record¿ embedded in archaeological sediments, and to achieve this I use micromorphological investigations of archaeological deposits. I have an interdisciplinary academic record with a PhD in 2012 from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in the University of Pennsylvania and a graduation in Archaeology at the University of Lisbon in 2002. My postdoctoral research started at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, where I currently hold an affiliation. Both as a field archaeologist and geologist, I have directed excavation projects and work in archaeological contexts in Europe (France, Portugal, Bulgaria), in the Levant (Israel), and Africa (Morocco, Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa). Currently, a group leader at the Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB). I am a principal researcher at ICArEHB (UAlg) where I coordinate an ERC Starting grant looking into biomolecules from archaeological sediments. I As of December 2023, my H index was of 24 (GS).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vera Lucia Dias Aldeias

Citation names

  • Aldeias, Vera

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9A14-DE8D-BABF
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7680-182X

Email addresses

  • vlaldeias@ualg.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2007 - 2012
Concluded
 Earth and Environmental Science (Doutoramento)
University of Pennsylvania, United States
"THE APPLICATION OF GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL AND MICROMORPHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES TO ISSUES OF HOMININ BEHAVIOR IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 PASS/Fail evaluation
2006 - 2007
Concluded
 Curso de Especialização em Geoarqueologia (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2002
Concluded
 História variante Arqueologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Aproximação Tecnológica e Geoarqueológica a um conjunto de Núcleos da Estação Paleolítica do Casal do Azemel" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2017/01/17 - 2018 Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2017/01/01 Postdoc (Research) Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Germany

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/01/17 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/09/01 - Current Sea harvesting in the transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer societies. Archeological microscopic and molecular approaches to shell midden stratigraphy
101003409
Supervisor
European Commission
Ongoing
2020 - Current Neanderthal Legacy. Contacts and Interactions in Europe 40,000 years ago
VIC. 191.070
Researcher
Ongoing
2022/10/01 - 2027/09/30 Into the Sedimentary Matrix: Mapping the Replacement of Neanderthals by early Modern Humans using micro-contextualized biomolecules
101041245
Principal investigator
European Research Council
2021/02/08 - 2024 MicroAsh - Pyrotechnologies of Middle and Later Stone Age foragers in central Africa: a micro-contextual approach
101032025
Supervisor
European Commission
Concluded
2018/09/01 - 2022/08/31 FLAME - Fire among Anatomically Modern Humans and Neandertals as revealed from Archaeological Microstratigraphic Evidence
IF/01157/2015/CP1308/CT0002
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Concluded
2019/05/01 - 2022/04/30 FLAME - Tecnologia do Fogo em Humanos Anatomicamente Modernos e Neandertais revelada através de evidências de microestratigrafia arqueológica
PTDC-HAR-ARQ-29606-2017
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
2019 - 2022 Collaborative Research: Hominin diversity, paleobiology, and behavior at the terminal Pliocene
1853355
Researcher
National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Ongoing
2018 - 2022 CNH-S: Exploring the history of coupled climatic and human influences on ecosystem changes during the last one million years
1826666
Researcher
National Science Foundation Directorate for Geosciences
Ongoing
2018/10/03 - 2021/10/02 Fire among Anatomically Modern Humans and Neandertals as revealed from Archaeological Microstratigraphic Evidence (FLAME)
PTDC/HAR-ARQ/29606/2017
Principal investigator
Ongoing
2018/03/15 - 2021/02/28 The Application of High Resolution Excavation in Reconstructing Early Technologies
1755237
Principal investigator
National Science Foundation
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/07/01 - 2021/06/30 The Muge Shellmiddens Project: A new Portal to the last hunter-gatherers the Tagus Valley, Portugal
PTDC/HAR-ARQ/29680/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano
UID/ARQ/04211/2019
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/07/01 - 2019/06/30 The origins and evolution of Human Cognition and the impact of Southwestern European coastal ecology
PTDC/HAR-ARQ/27833/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2013/06/01 - 2015/11/30 Middle Stone Age archaeology and the origins of modern humans in southern Mozambique
PTDC/EPH-ARQ/4998/2012
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2016 - Current Paleo Primate Project, developed in the Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique), targeting early hominin occupations in the southern area of the African rift. Project leader is Dr. Susana Carvalho.
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Researcher
Ongoing
2003 - 2004 O povoamento pré-histórico no concelho de Alcobaça: identificação e caracterização // The Prehistoric occupation of Alcobaça (Portugal)
ALBA
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Allué, Ethel; Mallol, Carolina; Aldeias, Vera; Burguet-Coca, Aitor; Cabanes, Dan; Carrancho, Ángel; Connolly, Rory; et al. "Fire among Neanderthals". In Updating Neanderthals, 227-249. Elsevier, 2022.
    10.1016/b978-0-12-821428-2.00014-7
  2. Aldeias, Vera. "Contexte Géologique et Remplissage Sédimentaire (Chapitre XXVIII, Partie 4, Grotte des Contrebandiers)". In Préhistoire de la Région de Rabat-Témara, 205-210. Rabat, Portugal: INSAP, 2012.
    Published
  3. Tereso, João; Neves, César; Aldeias, Vera; Gaspar, Rita; Duarte, Cidália; Gonçalves, David; Neto, Filipa; Pinheiro, Vanda. "A necrópole neolítica da Gruta do Rio Seco (Alcobaça): Dados da primeira intervenção // The neolithic necropolis of Gruta do Rio Seco (Alcobaça, Portugal)". 89-109. Faro, Portugal: Promontória Monográfica - Universidade do Algarve, 2006.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Murphree, William; Mallol, Carolina; Aldeias, Vera. "The Evolution of Pyrotechnology in the Early and Middle Upper Paleolithic of Europe". Paper presented in European Society for the study of Human Evolution, 2020.
    Published
  2. Gonçalves, Célia; Umbelino, Cláudia; Ana Isabel de Sousa Horta Dias Gomes; Gonçalves, César; Costa, Cláudia; Belmiro, Joana; Cascalheira, João; et al. "Muge Portal: A new digital platform for the last hunter-gatherers of the Tagus Valley, Portugal". Paper presented in Meso10 - Tenth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Toulouse, 2020.
    Published
  3. Cascalheira, João; Gonçalves, Célia; Aldeias, Vera; Benedetti, Michael; Haws, Jonathan; Madime, Omar; de Matos, Daniela; et al. "Stone Age occupations in Northern Mozambique: new evidence from a survey project in the Lunho river valley (Niassa)". Paper presented in Paleoanthropology Society 2015 Meeting, 2015.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Barbieri, Alvise; Cascalheira, João; Aldeias, Vera; Bicho, Nuno. "Upper Palaeolithic Foragers on a Slope: Geoarchaeological Data from Vale Boi (Southern Portugal)". Paper presented in Society of American Archaeologists 87th Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2022.
    Accepted
  2. Simões, Carlos; Costa, Ana M.; Aldeias, Vera. "Reconstruir atividades humanas e formação de contextos conquíferos: microfácies sedimentares do Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge) e das Poças de São Bento (Sado) e o seu potencial interpretativo nos padrões de comportamento humano no Mesolítico". Paper presented in II Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Lisboa, 2017.
    Published
  3. Martins, Andrea; Neves, César; Aldeias, Vera. "Beja Medieval ¿ os silos da Avenida Miguel Fernandes". Paper presented in III Encontro de Arqueologia Peninsular, Aljustrel, 2006.
    Published
  4. Martins, Andrea; Neves, César; Aldeias, Vera. "Arqueologia Medieval-Moderna em contexto urbano ¿ os silos Avenida Miguel Fernandes ¿ Beja.". Paper presented in Jornadas de Arqueologia Medieval e Moderna de Castelo Novo, Castelo Novo, 2005.
    Accepted
  5. Neves, César; Tereso, João Pedro; Aldeias, Vera; Gaspar, Rita. "O Património Arqueológico de Alcobaça. Apontamentos para a sua Conservação, Valorização e Divulgação.". Paper presented in 3º Seminário do Património da Região Oeste, Cadaval, 2004.
    Published
  6. Martins, Andrea; Neves, César; Aldeias, Vera. "Arqueologia Medieval ¿ Moderna. Os silos da Av. Miguel Fernandes (Beja).". Paper presented in IV Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular, Faro, 2004.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Schilt, Flora; Aldeias, Vera; Wright, D.K.; Nkhata, T.; Bertacchi, A.; Cerezo-Román, Jessica I.; Kaliba, P.; Thompson, J.C.. Corresponding author: Schilt, Flora. "Pyrotechnologies of Middle and Later Stone Age foragers in Malawi ¿ a micro-contextual approach with controlled heating experiments". Paper presented in International Union for Quaternary and Archaeological Sediments, 2023.
  2. Barbieri, Alvise; Carvalho, Milena; Horta, Pedro; Matias, Roxane; Maio, Daniela; Aldeias, Vera; Bicho, Nuno. "Middle Paleolithic occupations in the Escoural Cave (southern Portugal): preliminary geoarchaeological results.". Paper presented in 11th Annual meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution, 2021.
  3. Barbieri, Alvise; Aldeias, Vera. "MicroPEPPER: An affordable 3D PrintEd Portable PEtRographic Microscope for Science and Education". Paper presented in European Association of Archaeologists, 2021.
  4. Flora Cecilia Schilt; Aldeias, Vera; Jessica C. Thompson; Wright, David K.; Kaliba, Potiphar. Corresponding author: Flora Cecilia Schilt. "A micro-contextual approach to pyrotechnologies of Middle and Later Stone Age foragers in central Africa. Presenting the new MicroAsh project.". Paper presented in Developing International Geoarchaeology, 2021.
  5. Barbieri, Alvise; Carvalho, Milena; Horta, Pedro; Matias, Roxane; Maio, Daniela; Aldeias, Vera; Nuno Ferreira Bicho; Cascalheira, João. "Tracing the primary context of Neanderthal occupations within a complex karst system ¿ Preliminary geoarchaeological results from Escoural Cave (Southern Portugal)". Paper presented in Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference, 2021.
  6. Barbieri, Alvise; Aldeias, Vera; Cascalheira, João; Bicho, Nuno. "Tracing the primary context of Neanderthal materials within a complex karst system - Preliminary geoarchaeological results from Escoural (Southern Portugal).". Paper presented in Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG) 9th Meeting, 2021.
  7. Barbieri, Alvise; Carvalho, Milena; Horta, Pedro; Matias, Roxane; Maio, Daniela; Aldeias, Vera; Bicho, Nuno; Cascalheira, João. Corresponding author: Barbieri, Alvise. "Tracing the primary context of Neanderthal occupations within a complex karst system- Preliminary geoarchaeological results from Escoural (Alentejo, southern Portugal)". Paper presented in Developing International Geoarchaeology, 2021.
  8. Aldeias, Vera; William Chase Murphree; Carolina Mallol. "The evolution of pyrotechnology in the early and middle Upper Paleolithic in Europe". Paper presented in ESHE, 2020.
  9. Aldeias, Vera; Cruz Ferro-Vázquez; Carolina Mallol. "A systematic colourimetric method for identifying heated substrates in archaeological sites". Paper presented in ESHE, 2020.
  10. Aldeias, Vera; Dan Cabanes; A. Carrancho-Alonso; G. Gallo; P. Goldberg; S. Heinrich; Carolina Mallol; et al. "An Interdisciplinary Micro-Contextual Laboratory Excavation of Fire Residues from Pech de L’Azé IV (Dordogne, France)". Paper presented in ESHE, 2020.
  11. Gonçalves, Célia; Umbelino, Cláudia; Ana Isabel de Sousa Horta Dias Gomes; Gonçalves, C.; Costa, Cláudia; Belmiro, Joana; Cascalheira, João; et al. "A new digital platform for the last hunter-gatherers of the Tagus Valley, Portugal". Paper presented in Meso10 - Tenth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, 2020.
  12. Gonçalves, Célia; Umbelino, Cláudia; Gomes, Ana; Gonçalves, César; Costa, Cláudia; Belmiro, Joana; Cascalheira, João; et al. "The Muge Shellmiddens Project: A new digital platform for the last hunter-gatherers of the Tagus Valley, Portugal". Paper presented in 10th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe (MESO), 2020.
  13. Aldeias, Vera; Carlos Duarte Simões. "Tracing 'invisible' hearths using microcontextualized mineral alterations in Mesolithic shell middens". Paper presented in International Workshop on Archaeological Soil Micromorphology, 2019.
  14. Aldeias, Vera. "A Micro-Contextual Approach to Neandertal use of fire at Pech de l’Azé IV (Dordogne, France)". Paper presented in ESHE, 2018.
  15. Gonçalves, Célia; Cascalheira, João; Haws, Jonathan; Raja, Mussa; Bicho, Nuno; Aldeias, Vera; Benedetti, Michael; et al. "GIS and Archaeological Survey Data for the Reconstruction of Stone Age Settlement Patterns in the Elephant River Valley, Mozambique". Paper presented in SAA Annual Meeting, 2017.
  16. Aldeias, Vera. "Micro remains in thin section and their archaeological significance". Paper presented in WAMPAS, 2016.
  17. Aldeias, Vera. "The Microstratigraphic Record of Montagu Cave (South Africa)". Paper presented in Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), 2016.
  18. Aldeias, Vera. "A Microarchaeological Reconstruction of Neandertal Behavioral Complexity in Southwest France". Paper presented in SAA, 2015.
  19. Cascalheira, João; Bicho, Nuno; Aldeias, Vera; Benedetti, Michael; Gonçalves, Célia; Haws, Jonathan; Madime, Omar; et al. "Chicaza Rockshelter (Niassa, Mozambique): A Preliminary Report on Stratigraphy and Chronology". Paper presented in Paleoanthropological Meetings, 2015.
  20. Bicho, Nuno; Cascalheira, João; Haws, Jonathan; Gonçalves, Célia; Raja, Mussa; Madime, Omar; Aldeias, Vera; et al. "New Survey Results from Middle and Late Stone Age in Mozambique". Paper presented in AAA Annual Meeting, 2015.
  21. Cascalheira, João; Gonçalves, Célia; Aldeias, Vera; Benedetti, Michael; Haws, Jonathan; Madime, Omar; Raja, Mussa; Pereira, Telmo; Bicho, Nuno. "Surface Lithic Scatters in the Lunho River Valley (Niassa, Mozambique): The Case of Ncuala". Paper presented in . Seminário Internacional de Arqueologia Africana: Arqueologia e Paisagem, 2015.
  22. Gonçalves, Célia; Aldeias, Vera; Benedetti, Michael; Cascalheira, João; Haws, Jonathan; Madime, Omar; Raja, Mussa; Pereira, Telmo; Bicho, Nuno. "Chicaza: A New Rockshelter in the Chitete River Valley (Niassa, Mozambique)". Paper presented in Seminário Internacional de Arqueologia Africana: Arqueologia e Paisagem, 2015.
  23. Aldeias, Vera. "Insights into Site Formation Processes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic Layers in the Western Section of La Ferrassie (Dordogne)". Paper presented in ESHE, 2014.
  24. João Tereso; Neves, César; Aldeias, Vera; Rita Gaspar. "O Povoamento Pré-histórico do concelho de Alcobaça: o caso da Gruta do Rio Seco.". Paper presented in IV Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular, 2004.
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Aldeias, Vera; Tsanova, Tsenka. "Bacho Kiro Cave, Dryanovo, Bulgaria". In Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology. Springer, 2023. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-44600-0_204-1#chapter-info.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-44600-0_204-1
Journal article
  1. Archer, Will; Presnyakova, Darya; Aldeias, Vera; Colarossi, Debra; Hutten, Louisa; Lauer, Tobias; Porraz, Guillaume; Rossouw, Lloyd; Shaw, Matthew. "Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa". Journal of Human Evolution 184 (2023): 103435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103435.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103435
  2. Aldeias, Vera; Sandgathe, Dennis; McPherron, Shannon J. P.; Bruxelles, Laurent; Turq, Alain; Goldberg, Paul. "Site Formation Histories and Context of Human Occupations at the Paleolithic Site of La Ferrassie (Dordogne, France)". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 6 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00159-7.
    10.1007/s41982-023-00159-7
  3. Virginie Sinet-Mathiot; William Rendu; Teresa E. Steele; Rosen Spasov; Stéphane Madelaine; Sylvain Renou; Marie-Cécile Soulier; et al. "Identifying the unidentified fauna enhances insights into hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01830-4.
    10.1007/s12520-023-01830-4
  4. Bobe, René; Aldeias, Vera; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Anemone, Robert L.; Archer, Will; Aumaître, Georges; Bamford, Marion K.; et al. "The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift". iScience 26 9 (2023): 107644. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107644.
    10.1016/j.isci.2023.107644
  5. Guillaume Guérin; Aldeias, Vera; Frederik Baumgarten; Goldberg, Paul; Asier Gómez-Olivencia; Christelle Lahaye; Stéphane Madelaine; et al. "A Third Neanderthal Individual from La Ferrassie Dated to the End of the Middle Palaeolithic". PaleoAnthropology 1 (2023): 98-118.
    https://doi.org/10.48738/2023.iss1
  6. Lüdecke, Tina; Leichliter, Jennifer N.; Aldeias, Vera; Bamford, Marion K.; Biro, Dora; Braun, David R.; Capelli, Cristian; et al. "Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.958032.
    10.3389/fevo.2022.958032
  7. Lüdecke, Tina; Leichliter, Jennifer N.; Aldeias, Vera; Bamford, Marion K.; Biro, Dora; Braun, David R.; Capelli, Cristian; et al. "Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.958032.
    Published • 10.3389/fevo.2022.958032
  8. William Chase Murphree; Vera Aldeias. "The evolution of pyrotechnology in the Upper Palaeolithic of Europe". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01660-w.
    10.1007/s12520-022-01660-w
  9. Carlos D. Simões; Aldeias, Vera. "Thermo-microstratigraphy of shells reveals invisible fire use and possible cooking in the archaeological record". Frontiers in Earth Science 10 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.869487.
    10.3389/feart.2022.869487
  10. Martisius, Naomi L.; Spasov, Rosen; Smith, Geoff M.; Endarova, Elena; Sinet-Mathiot, Virginie; Welker, Frido; Aldeias, Vera; et al. "Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)". Journal of Human Evolution 167 (2022): 103198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103198.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103198
  11. Santander, Cindy; Molinaro, Ludovica; Mutti, Giacomo; Martínez, Felipe I.; Mathe, Jacinto; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Caldon, Matteo; et al. "Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species". BMC Ecology and Evolution 22 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01999-7.
    10.1186/s12862-022-01999-7
  12. Santander, Cindy; Molinaro, Ludovica; Mutti, Giacomo; Martínez, Felipe I.; Mathe, Jacinto; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Caldon, Matteo; et al. "Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species". BMC Ecology and Evolution 22 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01999-7.
    Published • 10.1186/s12862-022-01999-7
  13. Diyendo Massilani; Mike W. Morley; Susan M. Mentzer; Vera Aldeias; Benjamin Vernot; Christopher Miller; Mareike Stahlschmidt; et al. "Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 1 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113666118.
    10.1073/pnas.2113666118
  14. Bobe, René; Aldeias, Vera; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Archer, Will; Aumaître, Georges; Bamford, Marion K.; Biro, Dora; et al. "The First Miocene Fossils from Coastal Woodlands in the Southern East African Rift". SSRN Electronic Journal (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3941489.
    Under revision • 10.2139/ssrn.3941489
  15. Geoff M. Smith; Rosen Spasov; Naomi L. Martisius; Virginie Sinet-Mathiot; Vera Aldeias; Zeljko Rezek; Karen Ruebens; et al. "Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)". Journal of Human Evolution (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103074.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103074
  16. Ferro-Vázquez, Cruz; Mallol, Carolina; Aldeias, Vera. "Simply red? A systematic colour-based method for identifying archaeological fires". Geoarchaeology 37 2 (2021): 284-303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21886.
    10.1002/gea.21886
  17. Sarah Pederzani; Kate Britton; Vera Aldeias; Nicolas Bourgon; Helen Fewlass; Tobias Lauer; Shannon P. McPherron; et al. "Subarctic climate for the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe". Science Advances 7 39 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi4642.
    10.1126/sciadv.abi4642
  18. Boaretto, Elisabetta; Hernandez, Marion; Goder-Goldberger, Mae; Aldeias, Vera; Regev, Lior; Caracuta, Valentina; McPherron, Shannon P.; et al. "The absolute chronology of Boker Tachtit (Israel) and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 25 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014657118.
    10.1073/pnas.2014657118
  19. Braun, David R.; Faith, John Tyler; Douglass, Matthew J.; Davies, Benjamin; Power, Mitchel J.; Aldeias, Vera; Conard, Nicholas J.; et al. "Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa". Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.21886.
    10.1002/evan.21886
  20. Pederzani, Sarah; Aldeias, Vera; Dibble, Harold L.; Goldberg, Paul; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Madelaine, Stéphane; McPherron, Shannon P.; et al. "Reconstructing Late Pleistocene paleoclimate at the scale of human behavior: an example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie (France)". Scientific Reports 11 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80777-1.
    10.1038/s41598-020-80777-1
  21. Talamo, S.; Aldeias, V.; Goldberg, P.; Chiotti, L.; Dibble, H. L.; Guérin, G.; Hublin, J.-J.; et al. "The new 14 C chronology for the Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie, France: the disappearance of Neanderthals and the arrival of Homo sapiens in France". Journal of Quaternary Science 35 7 (2020): 961-973. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3236.
    10.1002/jqs.3236
  22. Fewlass, Helen; Talamo, Sahra; Wacker, Lukas; Kromer, Bernd; Tuna, Thibaut; Fagault, Yoann; Bard, Edouard; et al. "A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria". Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 6 (2020): 794-801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1136-3.
    10.1038/s41559-020-1136-3
  23. Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Sirakov, Nikolay; Aldeias, Vera; Bailey, Shara; Bard, Edouard; Delvigne, Vincent; Endarova, Elena; et al. "Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria". Nature 581 7808 (2020): 299-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2259-z.
    10.1038/s41586-020-2259-z
  24. Archer, Will; Aldeias, Vera; McPherron, Shannon P.. "What is in situ? A reply to Harmand et al. (2015)". Journal of Human Evolution 142 (2020): 102740. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102740.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102740
  25. Braun, David R.; Aldeias, Vera; Archer, Will; Arrowsmith, J. Ramon; Baraki, Niguss; Campisano, Christopher J.; Deino, Alan L.; et al. "Reply to Sahle and Gossa: Technology and geochronology at the earliest known Oldowan site at Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 41 (2019): 20261-20262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911952116.
    10.1073/pnas.1911952116
  26. Reeves, Jonathan S.; McPherron, Shannon P.; Aldeias, Vera; Dibble, Harold L.; Goldberg, Paul; Sandgathe, Dennis; Turq, Alain. "Measuring spatial structure in time-averaged deposits insights from Roc de Marsal, France". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11 10 (2019): 5743-5762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00871-y.
    10.1007/s12520-019-00871-y
  27. Braun, David R.; Aldeias, Vera; Archer, Will; Arrowsmith, J Ramon; Baraki, Niguss; Campisano, Christopher J.; Deino, Alan L.; et al. "Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019): 201820177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820177116.
    10.1073/pnas.1820177116
  28. Martinez, Felipe I.; Capelli, Cristian; Ferreira da Silva, Maria J.; Aldeias, Vera; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Archer, William; Bamford, Marion; et al. "A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships". Journal of Human Evolution 130 (2019): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.01.007.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.01.007
  29. Vera Aldeias; Shira Gur-Arieh; Raquel Maria; Patricia Monteiro; Pedro Cura; Aldeias, Vera; Gur-Arieh, Shira; et al. "Shell we cook it? An experimental approach to the microarchaeological record of shellfish roasting". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11 2 (2019): 389-407. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0413-1.
    10.1007/s12520-016-0413-1
  30. Wroth, Kristen; Cabanes, Dan; Marston, John M.; Aldeias, Vera; Sandgathe, Dennis; Turq, Alain; Goldberg, Paul; Dibble, Harold L.. "Neanderthal plant use and pyrotechnology: phytolith analysis from Roc de Marsal, France". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11 8 (2019): 4325-4346. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00793-9.
    10.1007/s12520-019-00793-9
  31. Jörg M. Habermann; Matthias Alberti; Vera Aldeias; Zeresenay Alemseged; Will Archer; Marion Bamford; Dora Biro; et al. "Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514 (2019): 723-738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.09.032.
    10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.09.032
  32. Sandgathe, Dennis; McPherron, Shannon; Goldberg, Paul; Aldeias, Vera. "Harold L. Dibble (1951–2018)". Nature Ecology & Evolution 2 10 (2018): 1521-1522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0665-5.
    10.1038/s41559-018-0665-5
  33. Dibble, Harold L.; Sandgathe, Dennis; Goldberg, Paul; McPherron, Shannon; Aldeias, Vera. "Were Western European Neandertals Able to Make Fire?". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 1 1 (2018): 54-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41982-017-0002-6.
    10.1007/s41982-017-0002-6
  34. Dibble, Harold L.; Abodolahzadeh, Aylar; Aldeias, Vera; Goldberg, Paul; McPherron, Shannon P.; Sandgathe, Dennis M.. "How Did Hominins Adapt to Ice Age Europe without Fire?". Current Anthropology 58 S16 (2017): S278-S287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/692628.
    10.1086/692628
  35. Aldeias, Vera. "Experimental Approaches to Archaeological Fire Features and Their Behavioral Relevance". Current Anthropology 58 S16 (2017): S191-S205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/691210.
    10.1086/691210
  36. Marine Frouin; Guillaume Guérin; Christelle Lahaye; Norbert Mercier; Sébastien Huot; Vera Aldeias; Laurent Bruxelles; et al. "New luminescence dating results based on polymineral fine grains from the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie (Dordogne, SW France)". Quaternary Geochronology 39 (2017): 131-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2017.02.009.
    10.1016/j.quageo.2017.02.009
  37. Guérin, G.; Frouin, M.; Tuquoi, J.; Thomsen, K.J.; Goldberg, P.; Aldeias, V.; Lahaye, C.; et al. "The complementarity of luminescence dating methods illustrated on the Mousterian sequence of the Roc de Marsal: A series of reindeer-dominated, Quina Mousterian layers dated to MIS 3". Quaternary International 433 (2017): 102-115. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84994619577&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.063
  38. Goldberg, Paul; Aldeias, Vera. "Why does (archaeological) micromorphology have such little traction in (geo)archaeology?". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 10 2 (2016): 269-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0353-9.
    10.1007/s12520-016-0353-9
  39. Aldeias, Vera. "How heat alters underlying deposits and implications for archaeological fire features: A controlled experiment". Journal of Archaeological Science (2016):
    10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.016
  40. Bicho, N.; Haws, J.; Raja, M.; Madime, O.; Gonçalves, C.; Cascalheira, J.; Benedetti, M.; et al. "Middle and Late Stone Age of the Niassa region, northern Mozambique. Preliminary results". Quaternary International 404 (2016): 87-99. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84951325963&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.059
  41. Aldeias, V.; Bicho, N.; Aldeias, Vera; Bicho, Nuno Gonçalo Viana Pereira Ferreira. "Embedded Behavior: Human Activities and the Construction of the Mesolithic Shellmound of Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge, Portugal". Geoarchaeology 31 6 (2016): 530-549. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84966550808&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/gea.21573
  42. Dibble, H.L.; Aldeias, V.; Goldberg, P.; McPherron, S.P.; Sandgathe, D.; Steele, T.E.. "A critical look at evidence from La Chapelle-aux-Saints supporting an intentional Neandertal burial". Journal of Archaeological Science 53 (2015): 649-657. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84919883489&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jas.2014.04.019
  43. Guérin, G.; Frouin, M.; Talamo, S.; Aldeias, V.; Bruxelles, L.; Chiotti, L.; Dibble, H.L.; et al. "A multi-method luminescence dating of the Palaeolithic sequence of La Ferrassie based on new excavations adjacent to the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons". Journal of Archaeological Science 58 (2015): 147-166. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84931583942&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.019
  44. Aldeias, V.; Goldberg, P.; Dibble, H.L.; El-Hajraoui, M.. "Deciphering site formation processes through soil micromorphology at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco". Journal of Human Evolution 69 1 (2014): 8-30. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84898054501&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.12.016
  45. Goldberg, Paul; Aldeias, Vera; Dibble, Harold; McPherron, Shannon; Sandgathe, Dennis; Turq, Alain. "Testing the Roc de Marsal Neandertal “Burial” with Geoarchaeology". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 9 6 (2013): 1005-1015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-013-0163-2.
    10.1007/s12520-013-0163-2
  46. Dibble, Harold L.; Aldeias, Vera; Jacobs, Zenobia; Olszewski, Deborah I.; Rezek, Zeljko; Lin, Sam C.; Alvarez-Fernández, Esteban; et al. "On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb". Journal of Human Evolution 64 3 (2013): 194-210.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.10.010
  47. Dibble, H.L.; Aldeias, V.; Jacobs, Z.; Olszewski, D.I.; Rezek, Z.; Lin, S.C.; Alvarez-Fernández, E.; et al. "Corrigendum to "On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb" [J. H. Evol. 64 (2013) 194-210]". Journal of Human Evolution 64 5 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890717857&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.03.001
  48. Aldeias, Vera; Goldberg, Paul; Sandgathe, Dennis; Berna, Francesco; Dibble, Harold L.; McPherron, Shannon P.; Turq, Alain; Rezek, Zeljko. "Evidence for Neandertal use of fire at Roc de Marsal (France)". Journal of Archaeological Science 39 7 (2012): 2414-2423. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440312000544.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jas.2012.01.039
  49. Dibble, Harold L.; Aldeias, Vera Lúcia Dias; Esteban Alvarez-Fernández; Bonnie A. B.Blackwell; Emily Hallett-Desguez; Jacobs, Z.; Goldberg, Paul; et al. "New Excavations at the Site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco". Paleoanthropology Journal in press (2012):
    Accepted
  50. Jacobs, Z.; Meyer, M.C.; Roberts, R.G.; Aldeias, V.; Dibble, H.; El Hajraoui, M.A.. "Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers (‘Smugglers’ Cave’), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels". Journal of Archaeological Science 38 12 (2011): 3631-3643.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jas.2011.08.033
  51. Aldeias, Vera; Neves, César; Tereso, João; Gaspar, Rita. "O património pré-histórico de Alcobaça: uma proposta para a sua reavaliação e estudo". Espaços ADEPA 3 (2006): 70-75.
    Published

Other

Dataset
  1. McPherron, S.; Aldeias, Vera. Online Database https://paleofire.eu. ICArEHB, UALG.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/09/19 Communication: “Contextualizing Neanderthal behaviour during MIS 3 and 4 at La Ferrassie, France: Seasonal palaeotemperature reconstructions from oxygen stable isotopes”, S. Pederzani, V. Aldeias, H. Dibble, P. Goldberg, J.-J. Hublin1, S. Madelaine, S. McPherron, D. Sandgathe, T. E. Steele, A. Turq, K. Britton, September 2019 ESHE meeting
(Belgium)
2019 Communication: “Earliest known Oldowan Artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, Highlight Early Technological Diversity”, D. R. Braun, V. Aldeias, W. Archer, J. R. Arrowsmith, N. Baraki, C.J. Campisano, A.L. Deino, E. N. DiMaggio, G. Dupont-Nivet, B. Engda1, D.A. Feary, D.I. Garello, Z. Kerfelew, S.P. McPherron, D. B. Patterson, J.S. Reeves, J.C. Thompson, K.E. Reed, ESHE meeting
(Belgium)
2019 Communication: “Were (Western European) Neandertals able to make fire?”, D. Sandgathe, V. Aldeias, P. Goldberg, H. Dibble, Presented at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
2019 Sedimentary Signatures of Human Behaviour – an example from Coastal Mesolithic Shell Mounds in Portugal IberoArchUK 2019
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
2019 Poster: “A Model for Predicting the heating temperatures of Middle Stone Age silcrete artefacts based on non-destructive infrared analyses”, S. Heinrich, M.C. Stahlschmidt, V.Aldeias, W. Archer, ESHE meeting, Liège September 2019 ESHE meeting
(Belgium)
2018 Communication: “New high-resolution 14C chronology for Bacho Kiro cave, Bulgaria spanning the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition”, H.Fewlass, S. Talamo, L. Wacker, B.Kromer, T. Tuna, Y. Fagault, E. Bard, V. Aldeias, R. Maria, N. L. Martisius, S. McPherron, L.Paskulin, Z. Rezek, V. Sinet-Mathiot, N. Sirakov, S. Sirakova, G. M Smith, R. Spasov, T.Tsanova, F. Welker, J.-J. Hublin, ESHE meeting
(Portugal)
2018 Communication: “Using time-averaged cave deposits and geospatial statistics to demonstrate spatial structure in Neandertal behavior”, J. Reeves, S. McPherron, V. Aldeias, H. L. Dibble, P. Goldberg, D. Sandgathe, A. Turq, ESHE meeting
(Portugal)
2018 Communication: “Tick Shells, Personal Ornamentation, and Marine Resource Exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco)”, T. Steele, E. Álvarez-Fernández, E. Hallet-Desguez, V. Aldeias, M. El Hajraoui, H. Dibble. PaleoAnthropology Society Meeting
(Austin, Texas, United States)
2018 From Site Formation to Anthropogenic Deposits: a micromorphological perspective on the invisible record Symposium “Microhistorias de La Tierra: Geoarqueología de alta resolución en la investigación de las sociedades del passado”
Universidad de Granada (Spain)
2018 Gorongosa by the sea: Miocene coastal environments of central Mozambique and their primate land-use potential”, J. M. Habermann, M. Alberti, V. Aldeias, Z. Alemseged, W. Archer, M. Bamford, D. Biro, D. R. Braun, C. Capelli, E. Cunha, M. Ferreira da Silva, T. Lüdecke, H.Madiquida, F. Martínez, J. Mathe, E. Negash, L. M. Paulo, M. Pinto, M. Stalmans, F. Tátá Regala, J. Wynn, R.Bobe, Susana Carvalho, ESHE meeting, Faro, September 2018. ESHE meeting
(Portugal)
2017 Communication: “Gorongosa National Park and the biogeography of human origins in the Mio-Pliocene”, S. Carvalho, V.Aldeias, Z. Alemseged, W. Archer, M. Bamford, D. Biro, R. Bobe, D. R. Braun, C. Capelli, E. Cunha, J. Ferreira da Silva, J. Habermann, T. Ludecke, H. Madiquida, F. Martinez, E. Negash, L. M. Paulo, M. Pinto, M. Stalmans, F. Tátá, J. Wynn ESHE
(Leiden, Netherlands)
2017 Communication: “Nassarius shells, personal ornamentation, and marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco)”, T. Steele, E. Álvarez-Fernández, E. Hallett-Desquez, V. Aldeias, M. El-Hajraoui, H. Dibble, Workshop of Humans’ Earliest Personal Ornaments, Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University, 6-8 March 2017.
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
2017 Behavioral and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Coastal Mesolithic Shell Mounds “Using Archaeological Sciences to Address Human Behavior”
Tübingen University (Germany)
2017 On experimentation and Site Formation: a Geoarchaeological Perspective on Human Behavior Guest Lecture AMBI LAb
University of La Laguna (Spain)
2017 Deciphering the Archaeological Record from its Invisible Evidence Guest Lecture Department of Archaeology
University of Leiden (Netherlands)
2017 Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Southeastern Europe: Preliminary Results from Excavations at Two Newly Discovered Sites in Serbia”, T. Dogandžic, S. Talamo, V. Dimitrijevic, T.Lauer, V. Aldeias, S.P. McPherron, D. Mihailovic, Paleoanthropology Society meeting
(Vancouver, Canada)
2016 Communication: “Coastal marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco)”, T. Steele, E. Álvarez-Fernández, E. Hallett-Desquez, V. Aldeias, M. El-Hajraoui, H. Dibble SAA
(Orlando, United States)
2016 On the context of the Neanderthal Skeletons at La Ferrassie: New evidence on old data”, P. Goldberg, V. Aldeias, A. Balzeau, L. Bruxelles, L. Chiotti, I. Crevecoeur, H. L. Dibble, A. Gómez-Olivencia, G. Guérin, J.-J. Hublin, B. Maureille, S. J. P. McPherron, S. Madelaine, D. M. Sandgathe, T. Steele, S. Talamo, A. Turq, ESHE meeting
(Madrid, Spain)
2015 Communication: “How to make a Mesolithic shell mound? Microstratigraphic investigations of Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Portugal)”, V. Aldeias, J. Cascalheira, J. Marreiros, T. Pereira, N. Bicho. MESO
(Serbia)
2015 Communication: “Shell we cook it? An experimental approach on cooking shellfish”, V. Aldeias, S. Gur-Arieh, MESO
(Serbia)
2015 Communication: “Montagu Cave in Prehistory: current excavation and analyses of the Acheulean sequence”, W. Archer, D. Presnyakova, A. Sumner, V. Aldeias, S. Gur Arie, M. Hernandez, M. Shaw, G. Porraz, L. Hutten, C. Poggenpoel, C.M. Keller, Pecha Kucha session, ESHE meeting
(London , United Kingdom)
2015 Communication: “Sea Shells by the Sea Shore: Microstratigraphic investigations of the Cabeço da Amoreira Mesolithic shellmound (Muge, Portugal)”, V. Aldeias, Symposium: Archaeology in Context: The influence of the Geoarchaeological Career of Paul Goldberg SAA meeting
(United States)
2015 Communication: “A most Interesting Carrer: Paul Goldberg’s other contributions to life and science”, D. Sandgathe, V. Aldeias, H. Dibble and S. McPherron; Symposium: Archaeology in Context: The influence of the Geoarchaeological Career of Paul Goldberg, SAA meetings, San Francisco, 2015. SAA meeting
(United States)
2015 Communication: “Aspects of Site Formation Processes at the Paleolithic site of La Ferrassie (Dordogne), France”, P. Goldberg, V. Aldeias, D. Sandgathe, A. Turq, L. Bruxelles, L. Chiotti, S.McPherron, H.Dibble; The Frison Insitute/Geoarchaeology Interest Group Symposium: Archaeology and Geoarchaeology of Rockshelters and Caves SAA
(San Francisco, United States)
2015 Communication: “Middle and Late Stone Age of the Niassa Region, Northern Mozambique. Preliminary Results”, N. bicho, J. Haws, M. Raja, O. Madime, C. Gonçalves, J. Cascalheira, V. Aldeias, M. Benedetti, T. Pereira AfQUA
(Cape Town, South Africa)
2013 Communication: “New Excavations at La Ferrassie: Preliminary Results on some of the Lithic Industries”, A. Turq, H. Dibble, V. Aldeias, L. Chiotti, P. Goldberg, G. Guérin, M. Frouin, S. McPherron, D. Sandgathe; ESHE
(Vienna, Austria)
2013 Communication: “ ’Habitual’ and ‘Controlled’ use of Fire in the Late Pleistocene of Western Europe?”, D. Sandgathe, V. Aldeias, H.L. Dibble, P. Goldberg, S.P. McPherron, A. Turq Canadian Archaeological Association’s annual Meeting
(Whistler, BC, Canada)
2013 Communication: “ESR dating at Grotte de Contrebandiers, Témara, Morocco”, B.A.B Blackwell, A.R. Skinner, H.L. Dibble, T. Yau, T.Z. Tsomo, C. Falguères, V. Aldeias, S.P. McPherron, M. A. El-Hajraoui; 2013 EPR Biodose Conference in Leiden, March 2013.
2012 Communication: “A Geoarchaeological Perspective on Late Pleistocene Hominin Behavior: examples from Roc de Marsal and Contrebandiers Cave”, V. Aldeias, presented at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, October 2012.
2012 Communication: “Questions of Scale and of Time: Palimpsets and Micromophology in the Middle Paleolithic of Southwest France", S.P. McPherron, V. Aldeias, F. Berna, H. L. Dibble, P. Goldberg, Z. Rezek, D. Sandgathe, A. Turq; paper presented at "Bridging Gaps: Integrating Geosciences with Archaeological Research" organized by Nicholas Conard, Paul Goldberg, Susan Mentzer, and Christopher E. Miller at Tubingen University, May 10-13, 2012.
2012 Communication: “Stratigraphy and Site Formation Processes at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco", V. Aldeias, and P. Goldberg, in Symposium – The Emergence of Modern Humans: New Evidence from Contrebandiers Cave, SAA, Memphis Tennessee, 2012.
2012 Communication: “On the use of hearths as a tool for reconstructing Middle Paleolithic spatial organization", V. Aldeias, P. Goldberg, D. Sandgathe, H. Dibble, Z. Rezek, S. McPherron and A. Turq, in Paleoanthropology Society, Memphis Tennessee, 2012.
2011 Communication: “Between the Atlantic and the Desert: Stratigraphy and Site Formation Processes at Contrebandiers cave, Morocco”, V. Aldeias. JIA 2011 meeting, Faro, 2011.
2010 Communication: “Processos de formação do registo arqueológico e estruturas de combustão paleolíticas: os exemplos de Roc de Marsal e gruta dos Contrebandiers (Marrocos)”, V. Aldeias, Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Lisbon, 2010.
2010 Communication: “The Mousterian Combustion Features at Roc de Marsal”, V. Aldeias, Z. Rezek, H.L. Dibble, P. Goldberg, D. Sandgathe, S.P. McPherron, A. Turq, SAA meeting, Saint Louis, 2010.
2009 Communication: “Hearths and Home at Roc de Marsal and Pech L’Aze IV”, H.L. Dibble, P. Goldberg, D. Sandgathe, S.P. McPherron, A. Turq, V. Aldeias, Tarragona, 2009.
2004 Communication: “The middle Paleolithic site of Arneiro Cortiço (Benavente): Archaeological intervention in the contexts of the Tagus terraces”, V. Aldeias, R. Gaspar, in the IV Congress of Peninsular Archaeology, ADECAP, University of Algarve, Faro, September 19th 2004.
2004 Communication: “Arqueologia Medieval – Moderna. Os silos da Av. Miguel Fernandes (Beja)” - [“Medieval-Modern archaeology. The silos from Av. Miguel Fernandes (Beja)”], A. Martins, C. Neves, V. Aldeias; in IV Congress de Peninsular Archaeology, ADECAP, University of Algarve, Faro, September 19th 2004.

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Supervisor of William Chase Murphree, ongoing PhD dissertation on the topic of use of fire in the middle and Upper Paleolithic in Europe
Supervisor
 Geoarchaeology (PhD)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2012 - Current Symposium chair and organizer, “The emergence of modern humans: New Excavations from Contrebandiers Cave (Morocco), with Harold Dibble, SAA, Memphis, USA (2012 - 2012)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2020/10/17 - 2021/05/20 The 9th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference (DIG) 2021 (2021/05/17)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2018 - 2018 European Society for Human Evolution Annual Meeting (2018 - 2018) (2018 - 2018)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Session organizer, “From Sediments to Behaviour and Palaeoenvironments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Hunter-Gatherer Contexts during the Late Glacial-Early Holocene”, with Ana Polo-Diaz and Natàlia Éguez, EAA 2018, Barcelona, Spain (2018)
Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2017/11/10 - Current Public conference cycle of Arqueologia às 6 - Os primórdios da nossa espécie: a importância de Marrocos e do Norte de África na evolução e dispersão dos Homo Sapiens, organized by ICArEHB, 10 de Novembro 2017, Faro.
Other
2015 - Current Invited participant Fire and the Genus Homo, Wenner-Gren Symposium
Symposium
 Wenner-Gren Symposium

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019 External Reviewer for PhD thesis of Carlos Duarte - Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
(Thesis) Arguer
 Carlos Duarte Simões (PhD)
2018 External Reviewer for PhD thesis of Mario Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
(Thesis) Arguer
 Mario Gutiérrez Rodríguez (PhD)
Universidad de Granada, Spain
2018 External Reviewer for PhD thesis of Patricia Monteiro, University of Algarve (Portugal)
(Thesis) Arguer
 Patricia Monteiro (PhD)
2018 Jury member of Mangus Haaland, PhD degree, University of Bergen (Norway)
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Mangus Haaland (PhD)
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Member of Scientific Council of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Lisbon, Portugal
Member
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Director of ICArEHB
Director
2017 - 2022 Head of research group "Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations"
Coordinator
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Vice-Director of the direction of ICArEHB
Director
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017/02/01 - Current Geoarchaeology and Site Formation Processes Doutoramento em Arqueologia (Doutoramento) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2018/01/19 - 2018/05/31 Scientific Writing (Doutoramento) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2010/12/31 Statistical Methods in Anthropology - Teaching Assistant (Bachelor) University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, United States
2008/09/01 - 2009/06/30 Introduction to Geology - Teaching assistant at University of Pennsylvania Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
2009/01/01 - 2009/06/05 Natural Disturbances and Human Disasters - Teaching Assistant at University of Pennsylvania Department of Earth and Environmental Science (Bachelor)

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2019 - Current Project coordinator of post-doctoral project of Dr. M. Cruz Ferro on the impacts of fire on soils and sediments
Evaluator
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2019 - Current Project coordinator of post-doctoral project of Dr. Alvise Barbieri on the geoarchaeological studies of middle and upper paleolithic contexts in Portugal
Evaluator
 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2019 - Current Ponto de Partida, episode “As origens”, Antena 1
2019 - Current Program 90 segundos de Ciência, Antena 1
2011 - Current Participation in the National Geographic Society Television documentary entitled 'The World's First Child', aired in 2011.

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2012 - Current Reviewer for Granting Institutions and Academic Journals National Science Foundation (USA) (1) Leakey Foundation (2) Nature Ecology & Evolution (1) Journal of Human Evolution (5) Journal of Archaeological Science (3) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2) Geoarchaeology (3) Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2) Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (1) Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (2) Reviewer academic thesis from University of Auckland (New Zealand) (1)
Distinctions

Other distinction

2018 Documenting Neandertal Fire Signatures through High Resolution Analyses at Pech de l'Azé IV, Co-PI, ($161 000)
2017 Exploratoy Project, FCT Investigator, PI (50,000 euros)
2017 How did Neandertals Use Fire? A micro-contextual approach at the site of Pech de l’Azé IV , Co-PI, ($19 000)
2012 School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania, United States
2010 Summer Paleontology Research Award
University of Pennsylvania, United States
2009 Henry C. Lewis Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, United States
2009 Greg and Susan Walker Endowment for Student Research in Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania, United States
2007 Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, United States