Marta Isabel Caetano Leitão (BA19-F944-95FC)

Curriculum Vitae

Marta Isabel Caetano Leitão

His research focuses on Medieval Islamic Archeology, particularly in the study of settlement models, fortifications and material culture. She has a degree in History and Archeology, specializing in Archeology from the University of Évora. In 2015, he completed his Masters in Archeology at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, with the dissertation: "The Islamic Presence in al-Qasr (Alcácer do Sal, Portugal): an analysis of urbanism and the defensive system", having obtained a final classification of Excellent. In 2023, he completed his PhD in History, specialization in Archeology, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, with the thesis: "The Organization of the Territory in the Southwest of the Gharb Al-Andalus - rural settlement and fortified landscapes in the kura of Alcácer do Sal", financially supported by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/117606/2016; COVID/BD/151702/2021), having the jury in the final proof awarded the maximum grade of Very Good by unanimity. Participated as a volunteer in different archaeological interventions, having also participated in the organization of the 1st Congress of the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists, held at the National Library of Portugal, between the 21st and 23rd of November 2013. She was the archaeologist responsible for the technical and scientific direction of the archaeological work carried out in Alcácer do Sal, between 2020 and 2022, in the settlements of Vale de Trigo Castle, Alcaria de São Lourenço and Atalaias de Abul e Murta. She has published two books, six book chapters and ten articles in national and international journals.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Marta Isabel Caetano Leitão
Date of birth: 1988/12/03
Gender: Female

Citation names

Leitão, Marta Isabel Caetano

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: BA19-F944-95FC
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5782-3986

Websites

https://fcsh-unl.academia.edu/MartaIsabelCaetanoLeit%C3%A3o (Professional)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5782-3986 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Arab		Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/03/27 Concluded	History (Doutoramento) Major in Specialty: Archeology Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "The Organization of the Territory in the Southwest of the Gharb Al-Andalus - rural settlement and fortified landscapes in the kura of Alcácer do Sal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good unanimously
2019/10/08 - 2019/10/09 Concluded	Autumn School - Medieval Studies (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/10/09 - 2018/10/10 Concluded	Autumn School - Inclusion and Exclusion in Medieval Urban Europe (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/05/15 - 2018/06/03 Concluded	Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applied to heritage and archeology management (Outros) Universidad de Burgos, Spain	Apto
2017/10/02 - 2017/10/03 Concluded	Autumn School: Spaces and Powers in medieval urban Europe (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2016/02/14 - 2016/03/21 Concluded	Educación y Museos (2.ª edición) (Outros) Universidad de Murcia, Spain
2015/11/03 Concluded	Archeology (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "The Islamic Presence in al-Qasr (Alcácer do Sal, Portugal): an analysis of urbanism and the defensive system" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18 Valores
2015/05/06 - 2015/05/31 Concluded	La Alhambra: Historia, Arte y Patrimonio (Outros) Universidad de Granada, Spain	Completed with success
2015/03/17 - 2015/04/12 Concluded	The Graphic Documentation in Archaeology (1st Edition) (Outros) Universidad de Burgos, Spain	Apto
2013/09/05 Concluded	History and Archeology (Licenciatura) Major in Specialty: Archeology Universidade de Évora Departamento de História, Portugal	15 Valores

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/06/06 - 2022/06/11	Archaeologist responsible for the technical and scientific direction of the archaeological work carried out at the archaeological site of São Lourenço, Alcácer do Sal	Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2021/05/10 - 2021/05/29	Archaeologist responsible for the technical and scientific direction of the archaeological excavation works carried out at the archaeological site of Vale de Trigo castle, Alcácer do Sal	Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2020/04/06 - 2020/04/11	Archaeologist responsible for the technical and scientific direction of the archaeological work carried out at the archaeological site of Atalaia de Murta, Alcácer do Sal	Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2020/03/16 - 2020/03/21	Archaeologist responsible for the technical and scientific direction of the archaeological work carried out at the archaeological site of Atalaia de Abul, Alcácer do Sal	Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2018/07/16 - 2018/07/28	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological excavation work carried out at the Roman Villa Casa da Medusa in Alter do Chão, Portalegre	Câmara Municipal de Alter do Chão, Portugal , Portugal

2018/07/02 - 2018/07/14	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological excavation work carried out at Late Antique Necropolis of Quinta da Cerca in Alter do Chão, Portalegre	Câmara Municipal de Alter do Chão, Portugal , Portugal

2017/08/28 - 2017/09/08	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological excavation work carried out at Castelo de Silves, Faro	Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2015/08/24 - 2015/09/03	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological excavation work carried out at Castelo de Silves, Faro	Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2014/07/14 - 2014/07/24	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological excavation work carried out in Ribat da Arrifana in Aljezur, Faro	Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2013/07/15 - 2013/07/27	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological excavation work carried out in São Miguel de Fetal, Viseu	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal

2012/08/20 - 2012/08/31	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological excavation work carried out in the Islamic Quarter of Mértola, Beja	Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, Portugal

2012/07/30 - 2012/08/11	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological survey carried out under the LAPA project in Arraiolos, Évora	Universidade de Évora, Portugal

2011/08/22 - 2011/09/02	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological work carried out at the Roman Villa of Monte da Chaminé in Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja	Câmara Municipal de Ferreira do Alentejo, Portugal , Portugal

2011/07/18 - 2011/07/31	Participation as a volunteer in the archaeological works carried out in the Roman Necropolis of Outeiro do Mouro in Fronteira, Portalegre	Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/11 - 2022/08	The Organization of the Territory in the Southwest of the Gharb Al-Andalus - rural settlement and fortified landscapes in the kura of Alcácer do Sal COVID/BD/151702/2021 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2017/09 - 2021/09	The Organization of the Territory in the Southwest of the Gharb Al-Andalus - rural settlement and fortified landscapes in the kura of Alcácer do Sal SFRH/BD/117606/2016 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2019 - 2021	PIPA - PREPF-AS - A Organização do Território no Sudoeste do Gharb Al -Andalus – povoamento rural e paisagens fortificadas na kura de Alcácer do Sal PREPF-AS Principal investigator Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de História, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Leitão, Marta. A Presença Islâmica em al-Qasr (Alcácer do Sal): urbanismo, quotidianos e cultura material. Germany: Novas Edições Acadêmicas. 2017. Published Leitão, Marta. A Presença Islâmica em al-Qasr (Alcácer do Sal): o território e o sistema defensivo. Germany: Novas Edições Acadêmicas. 2017. Published
Book chapter	Leitão, Marta Isabel Caetano. "O Castelo de Vale de Trigo (Alcácer do Sal): dados das intervenções arqueológicas". In Arqueologia em Portugal: 2023- Estado da Questão, 1047-1060. Lisboa, Portugal: Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses/ CEAACP, CEIS20 and IA-FLUC, 2023. Published Leitão, Marta. "O Sistema Defensivo Islâmico do Território de Alcácer do Sal - Abordagem Preliminar". In O Território e a Gestão dos Recursos entre a Antiguidade Tardia e o Período Islâmico, 437-459. Granada, Spain: Nakla Colección de Arqueología y Patrimonio, 2020. Published Leitão, Marta. "O armazenamento e a gestão dos recursos nas cidades do Gharb al-Andalus - o exemplo de Alcácer do Sal". In Abastecer a Cidade na Europa Medieval, 449-464. Portugal: IEM-Instituto de Estudos Medievais/Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide, 2020. Published Leitão, Marta. "La cerámica islámica de Alcácer do Sal. Del emirato al reino aftasí de Badajoz". In La Granada zirí y el universo beréber, 162-173. Granada, Spain: Patronato De La Alhambra y Generalife, 2019. Published Leitão, Marta. "O Castelo de Alcácer do Sal. Da fortificação islâmica às transformações ocorridas durante o domínio cristão". In Espaços e Poderes na Europa Urbana Medieval, 617-640. Portugal: IEM-Instituto de Estudos Medievais/Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide, 2018. Published Leitão, Marta. "O povoamento rural islâmico na kura de Alcácer do Sal: breve análise da toponímia". In Arqueologia em Portugal: 2017- Estado da Questão, 1405-1416. Portugal: Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, 2017. Published
Journal article	Leitão, Marta Isabel Caetano. "Aldeia/Alcaria de São Martinho da Bemposta (Casebres, Alcácer do Sal)". Al-Madan 26 (2023): 51-57. https://almadan.publ.pt/AdendaElectronica%20(geral).htm. Published Marta Leitão. "A cidade de Alcácer do Sal durante o emirato e o califado de Córdova". digitAR – Revista Digital de Arqueologia, Arquitectura e Artes 8 (2022): 242-253. https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/digitar/issue/view/761. Published • 10.14195/2182-844X_8 Leitão, Marta. "A Comunidade Muçulmana de Alcácer do Sal durante a Idade Média". Al-Madan 23 (2020): 150-156. https://issuu.com/almadan/docs/ao23-1. Published Leitão, Marta. "O Povoamento Rural Islâmico no al-Andalus – Estado da investigação". Anales de Arqueología Cordobesa 29 (2018): 293-318. https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/anarcor/issue/view/936/showToc. Published Leitão, Marta. "As fortificações da barra do Sado nos séculos XVI e XVII". anuário do património: boas práticas de conservação e reabilitação 3 (2018): 46-51. https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2182-522X. Published Leitão, Marta. "O Uso da Taipa Militar nas Fortificações Muçulmanas do Actual Território Português". Al-Madan 21 (2017): 113-119. http://www.almadan.publ.pt/AdendaElectronica%20%28geral%29.htm. Published Leitão, Marta. "Alcácer do Sal Durante o Período Muçulmano (IX-XIII)". Debates de Arqueología Medieval 6 (2016): 209-234. http://www.arqueologiamedievaldebates.com/articulo-118/alcacer-do-sal-durante-o-periodo-mu%C3%A7ulmano-(ix-xiii). Published Leitão, Marta. "Estudo de espólio cerâmico proveniente do interior de uma habitação almóada da alcáçova de Alcácer do Sal". Arqueología y Territorio Medieval 23 (2016): 23-39. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/ATM/article/view/3199. Published Leitão, Marta. "A Fortificação Abaluartada da Praça de Setúbal: a evolução construtiva vista a partir da iconografia". Al-Madan 21, tomo I (2016): 144-158. http://www.almadan.publ.pt/AdendaElectronica%20(geral).htm. Published Leitão, Marta. "A Porta Muçulmana da Alcáçova de Alcácer do Sal". Al-Madan 20 (2016): 80-85. http://www.almadan.publ.pt/AdendaElectronica%20%28geral%29.htm. Published
Thesis / Dissertation	"A Organização do Território no Sudoeste do Gharb Al-Andalus - povoamento rural e paisagens fortificadas na kura de Alcácer do Sal". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/155586. Leitão, Marta Isabel Caetano. "A Presença islâmica em al-Qasr : uma análise sobre o urbanismo e o sistema defensivo". Master, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/17511.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/11/23	The Village/Alcaria of São Martinho da Bemposta (Casebres, Alcácer do Sal)	Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10/11	The storage and management of resources in the cities of the Gharb al-Andalus - the example of Alcácer do Sal	IV International Conference on the Middle Ages: Provisioning Medieval European Towns IEM - Instituto de Estudos Medievais / Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide (Castelo de Vide, Portugal)
2019/05/11	The Islamic Defensive System of the Territory of Alcácer do Sal - A preliminary approach	International Meeting: The Territory and the Management of Resources between Late Antiquity and the Islamic Period Campo Arqueológico de Mértola (Mértola, Portugal)
2018/10/11	The Muslim Community of Alcácer do Sal in the Christian Post-Reconquest - spaces, relations and daily life	III International Conference on the Middle Agess - Inclusion and Exclusion in Medieval Urban Europe IEM - Instituto de Estudos Medievais / Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide (Castelo de Vide, Portugal)
2017/11/22	The Islamic rural settlement in the Kura of Alcácer do Sal: brief analysis of toponymy	II Congress of the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses / Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/10/05	The Castle of Alcácer do Sal. From Islamic fortification to transformations during the Christian domain	II International Conference on the Middle Ages - Space and Power in Medieval Urban Europe IEM - Instituto de Estudos Medievais / Câmara Municipal de Castelo de Vide (Castelo de Vide, Portugal)
2016/11/04	The city of Alcácer do Sal during the Emirate and Caliphate of Córdoba	IX Meeting of Archeology of the Peninsular Southwest MAEDS / Universidad de Huelva / Universidad Autonoma de Madrid / Câmara Municipal de Palmela (Troia-Setúbal, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2013/11/20 - 2013/11/24	Participation as a volunteer in the organization of the 1st Congress of the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists, held at the National Library of Portugal, between the 20th and 24th of November 2013. (2013/11/21 - 2013/11/23) Congress (Other)