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Maria Teresa Ribeiro Matos Fernandes has a PhD in Biology and her research area is Biological Anthropology, in particular the study of past populations, their demographics, patterns of health and disease and the reconstruction of diets and mobility. She is the curator of the Évora Collection of Identified Skeletons, for which she was responsible. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Évora, where he teaches various subjects in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including, among others, the origin and diversity of human populations, biological profiling methodologies and palaeopathology. He is responsible for the 1st cycle course in Human Biology at the University of Évora and for the master's programme in Bioarchaeology, be starting in 2024. He is a member of the Research Centre for Anthropology and Health.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Teresa Ribeiro Matos Fernandes

Citation names

  • Teresa Fernandes
  • Teresa Matos Fernandes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F91F-8CA7-B85D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2403-8826

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/01/02 - 2026/01/01 Interdisciplinary Approach to the Osteological Collection from the Military Hospital of St. George’s Castle (17th – 18th centuries), Lisbon
2022.03576.PTDC
Researcher
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/10/15 - 2021/10/14 História, Arqueologia e Antropo-biogeoquímica da população medieval em Portugal (sécs. X-XIV). Cultura, identidades e interculturalidade descodificadas pelo estudo da dieta e da mobilidade
PTDC/HAR-HIS/31599/2017
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2012/05/06 - 2015/09/30 HEROICA: Saúde e Alimentação na Ibéria Romana - um Case-study em Arqueometria
PTDC/HIS-ARQ/120236/2010
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Évora Centro de Química de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/09/01 - 2012/05/02 Estudo Nacional de Prevalência de Obesidade Infantil em Portugal, alterações de 2002 a 2007. Avaliação dos Efeitos do Estilo de Vida e do Ambiente
PTDC/SAU-ESA/70526/2006
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

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

Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2002 - 2005 Estudo nacional de prevalência de obesidade na infância. Influência de factores sócio-demográficos. Portuguese prevalence study of obesity in childhood. The role of socio-demographic factors
POCTI/ESP/43238/2001
Researcher
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2013 - 2016 Weaning age at the Mediaeval population of S. Miguel de Odrinhas (Sintra): confrontation of anthropological data with the one from stable isotope analysis
UID/ANT/00283/2013
Researcher
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ribeiro, Ana; Maurer, Anne-France; Relvado, Cláudia; Dias, Cristina Barrocas; Fernandes, Teresa; Detry, Cleia; Umbelino, Cláudia. "Food abstinence: an option or a rule?". In Conventualidades. Publicações do Cidehus, 2023.
    Published • 10.4000/books.cidehus.21331
  2. Cruz, Ana; Gibaja, Juan; Senna-Martinez, JC; Santos, L.; Relvado, Cláudia; Ribeiro, Cheila; Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa Matos. "Upper Morgado Shelter, Still a Peripheral Funeral Context, or Perhaps Not? (Tomar, Central Portugal)". In Interchange in Pre- and Protohistory: Case Studies in Iberia, Romania, Turkey and Israel, 91-105. United Kingdom: BAR Publishing, 2018.
    Published
  3. Teresa Fernandes. "Osteological Collections". In Cem anos de antropologia: 1885-1985, 77-81. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2016.
    Published
  4. Teresa Fernandes; Costa, Catarina; Santos, Sónia; Ferro, Sónia; Almeida, Pedro. "The parish cemetery of Santa Maria da Graça: an anthropological study.". In Entre Muralhas e Templos. A intervenção arqueológica no Largo de Santa Maria da Graça. Lagos (2004-2005)., 106-206. Lagos, Portugal: Atena Editora, 2009.
Conference paper
  1. Curto, Ana; Lopes, Célia; Relvado, Cláudia; Silva, Filipa Cortesão; Curate, Francisco; Assis, Sandra; Fernandes, Teresa; Matos, Vítor M.J.. "7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology: health and disease in the past. Program-Abstracts". 2021.
  2. Amorim, António; Afonso Costa, A; Vieira da Silva, C; Ribeiro, T; Porto, MJ; Taveira, Nuno; Fernandes, Teresa. "Mitochondrial DNA studies of Lisbon immigrants from Portuguese speaking African countries". Paper presented in 22nd International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME), Lisboa, 2017.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/vey010.064
  3. Teresa Fernandes; Filipe Alfaiate; Nicole Vieira. "Is this a Dish?". Paper presented in XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia, Andorra, Andorra, 2011.
    Published
  4. Teresa Fernandes; Daniela Anselmo. "A case of HOA on a skeleton from the èvora Identified Collection". Paper presented in XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia, Andorra, 2011.
    Published
  5. Teresa Fernandes; Ana Curto. "A possible case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in a Medieval/Modern adult man, Tomar, Portugal.". Paper presented in XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia, 2011.
    Published
  6. Teresa Fernandes. "Mechanobiology of bone: I. Trabecular bone microstructure in palaeodemographic studies.". Paper presented in 3º Congresso Nacional de Biomecânica, Bragança, 2009.
    Published
  7. Costa, Catarina; Fernandes, Teresa; Faria, Fernando. "Scaphocephaly: a case study from the Identified Skeleton Collection of Évora.". 2008.
  8. Costa, Catarina; Fernandes, Teresa; Guerra, Rita. "A case of brucellosis from the cemetery of S. Miguel de Odrinhas (Sintra, 10th-11th centuries) ?". Paper presented in I Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, Coimbra, 2008.
  9. Faria, Fernando; Fernandes, Teresa; Costa, Catarina. "Multiple lesions on a skeleton from Póvoa do Varzim". 2008.
  10. Teresa Fernandes. "Analysing Skeletal Markers of Activity in Ancient Human Populations". Paper presented in 2º Encontro Nacional de Biomecânica, Évora, 2007.
    Published
  11. Teresa Fernandes. "Anthropological study of a population buried in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria da Graça (Historic Centre of Lagos).". Paper presented in 3º Encontro de Arqueologia do Algarve, 2005.
    Published
  12. Teresa Fernandes; Granja, Raquel. "Paleopathology from a Portuguese Medieval Cemetery (Santiago do Cacém)". Paper presented in VI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia, Madrid, 2001.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Teresa Fernandes. "The diet and mobility of urban and rural populations in southern Portugal in Late Antiquity". Paper presented in XIII Iberian Archaeometry Congress, 2019.
  2. Teresa Fernandes. "TRANSCULTURAL. History, archaeology and anthropo-biogeochemistry of the medieval population in Portugal (10th-14th centuries). Cultural and intercultural identities decoded by the study of diet and mobility". Paper presented in XIII Congresso Ibérico de Arqueometria, 2019.
  3. Teresa Fernandes. "Diet and dynamics of the last Muslims and the first Christians in the Algarve between the 12th and 14th centuries". Paper presented in XIII Iberian Archaeometry Congress, 2019.
  4. Teresa Fernandes. "Possible case of HID in a female skeleton from the necropolis of the Flor da Rosa Monastery (13th-18th century), Crato, Portugal". Paper presented in VI Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia,, 2018.
  5. Teresa Fernandes. "Analyse métrique du dimorphisme sexuel de la scapule dans la population portuguaise: une nouvelle méthode de diagnostic sexuel". Paper presented in XXXIIIéme Colloque du GALF, 2018.
  6. Teresa Fernandes. "Life in rural and cosmopolitan spheres: multi-isotopic investigation of Late Antiquity populations from southern Portugal". Paper presented in XII Congreso Ibérico de Arqueometría, 2017.
  7. Teresa Fernandes. "Mitochondrial DNA studies of Lisbon immigrants from Portuguese Speaking African Countries: bioinformatics contribution". Paper presented in 22nd International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME),, 2017.
  8. Teresa Fernandes. "Portuguese Speaking African Countries: bioinformatics contributions". Paper presented in 22nd International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME), 2017.
  9. Teresa Fernandes; Relvado, Cláudia; Ribeiro, Cheila; Fernandes, Teresa. "Multiple fractures on the skeleton of an elderly woman from the Remédios cemetery, Évora". Paper presented in V Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, 2016.
    https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-7982_35_3
  10. Teresa Fernandes. "Spondyloarthropathies and DISH in the medieval/modern necropolis of Santa Maria do Olival, in the city of Tomar". Paper presented in V Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, 2016.
  11. Teresa Fernandes. "Bone deformations and alterations: a possible case of Paget's disease in a skeleton from the Identified Skeleton Collection of Évora..". Paper presented in V Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, 2016.
  12. Teresa Fernandes. "Sexual dimorphism in a medieval/modern Portuguese sample: estimating biological sex and stature from long bone length". Paper presented in 18th Annual Conference British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, 2016.
  13. Teresa Fernandes. "A possible treponemal infection in a young adult from medieval/modern Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in II Biological Anthropology Meeting, 2015.
  14. Teresa Fernandes. "A slipped capital femoral epiphysis case study from medieval Estremoz, Portugal.". Paper presented in II Biological Anthropology Meeting, 2015.
  15. Teresa Fernandes. "A possible case of meningitis in a young child, from the medieval/modern necropolis in Santa Maria do Olival, Tomar (Portugal).". Paper presented in II Biological Anthropology Meeting, 2015.
  16. Teresa Fernandes. "Multiple lesions on a male skeleton from the (medieval/modern) necropolis of Santa Maria dos Olivais, Tomar.". Paper presented in IV Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, 2014.
  17. Teresa Fernandes. "Spondyloarthropathy in medieval Tomar". Paper presented in IV Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, 2014.
  18. Teresa Fernandes. "The serial killer caught a dwarf: a posible case of tuberculosis in an individual with hypopituitarism from a Medieval/Modern necropolis (Tomar, Portugal).". Paper presented in XII Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia, 2013.
  19. Teresa Fernandes. "A severe case of Porotic Hyperostosis from Évora, Portugal". Paper presented in XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia, 2011.
  20. Teresa Fernandes. "Multiple lesion skeleton from Póvoa de Varzim.". Paper presented in IX Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia, 2007.
  21. Teresa Fernandes. "Scaphocephaly and plagiocephaly: a case study from the Identified Skeleton Collection of Évora.". Paper presented in IX Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia, 2007.
  22. Teresa Fernandes. "A Brucellosis from the X-XI Century S. Miguel de Odrinhas (Sintra) Cemetery.". Paper presented in VII Congreso de Nacional de Paleopatología, 2003.
  23. Teresa Fernandes. "A Simultaneous Presence of DISH and Spondyloarthropaty". Paper presented in VII Congreso de Nacional de Paleopatología., 2003.
  24. Teresa Fernandes. "A possible case of brucellosis?". Paper presented in VII Congreso de Nacional de Paleopatología, 2003.
  25. Teresa Fernandes. "Multiple Myeloma from a Portuguese Medieval Population (Estremoz).". Paper presented in 14th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association,, 2002.
Journal article
  1. Maurer, Anne-France; MacRoberts, Rebecca; López-Aceves, Judith Margarita; Ortega-González, Alvaro Felipe; Relvado, Claudia; Fernandes, Teresa; Curate, Francisco; et al. Corresponding author: Maurer, Anne-France. "Mobility of populations in the transition from Muslim world to Portuguese Kingdom in the Algarve, South Portugal, 11th-13th centuries". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17 12 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02322-3.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/s12520-025-02322-3
  2. Roca-Rada, Xavier; Davidson, Roberta; Williams, Matthew P.; Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa; Carvalho, António Faustino; Ravishankar, Shyamsundar; Collen, Evelyn; et al. "The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years". Genome Biology 26 1 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03707-2.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s13059-025-03707-2
  3. Davidson, Roberta; Roca-Rada, Xavier; Ravishankar, Shyamsundar; Taufik, Leonard; Haarkötter, Christian; Collen, Evelyn; Williams, Matthew P.; et al. "Optimized in-solution enrichment of over a million ancient human SNPs". Genome Biology 26 1 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03622-6.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s13059-025-03622-6
  4. Curto, Ana; Navarrete, Vanessa; Maurer, Anne-France; Dias, Cristina Barrocas; Fernandes, Teresa. Corresponding author: Curto, Ana. "Health and well-being in Medieval Estremoz, Portugal: Uncovering the diet and longevity of a distinct and thriving community". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 62 (2025): 105011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105011.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105011
  5. Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa; Relvado, Cláudia; Ferro, Sónia; Lopes, Célia. "Variability of lesions and lesion patterns in possible treponematosis cases: Insights from an archaeological site in Tomar, Portugal". Anthropologischer Anzeiger 82 1 (2025): 107-122. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2024/1764.
    Published • 10.1127/anthranz/2024/1764
  6. MacRoberts, Rebecca Anne; Liberato, Marco; Roca-Rada, Xavier; Valente, Maria João; Relvado, Claudia; Matos Fernandes, Teresa; Barrocas Dias, Cristina; et al. "Shrouded in history: Unveiling the ways of life of an early Muslim population in Santarém, Portugal (8th– 10th century AD)". PLOS ONE 19 3 (2024): e0299958. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299958.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0299958
  7. Curto, Ana; Ferro, Sónia; Santos, Cláudia; Lourenço, Marina; Fahy, Geraldine E.; Anselmo, Daniela; Fernandes, Teresa. "Comparing morphological (os coxae) and metric (long bone length) sex estimation methods in archaeological collections". Anthropologischer Anzeiger (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2023/1730.
    Published • 10.1127/anthranz/2023/1730
  8. Matos, Mariana Duarte Pissarra; Fernandes, Teresa Ribeiro Matos; Wright, Patricia Chapple. "Ecological Flexibility of Propithecus edwardsi in Two Forest Habitats with Different Logging Histories in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar". International Journal of Primatology 43 5 (2022): 913-931. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00308-9.
    Published • 10.1007/s10764-022-00308-9
  9. Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa. "Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal l". International Journal of Paleopathology 38 (2022): 13-17. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32528.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.05.004
  10. Lopes, Célia; Fernandes, Teresa. "The Identified Skeleton Collection of Évora: importance for forensic science and bioarchaeology in the southern inland of Portugal.". (2021): https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00414-021-02725-6.pdf.
    https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00414-021-02725-6.pdf
  11. MacRoberts, Rebecca Anne; Barrocas Dias, Cristina Maria; Matos Fernandes, Teresa; Santos, Ana Luisa; Umbelino, Claudia; Gonçalves, Ana; Santos, Jose; et al. "Diet and mobility during the Christian conquest of Iberia: The multi-isotopic investigation of a 12th–13th century military order in Évora, Portugal". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 30 (2020): 102210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102210.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102210
  12. Curto, Ana; Mahoney, Patrick; Maurer, Anne-France; Barrocas Dias, Cristina Maria; Fernandes, Teresa Matos; Fahy, Geraldine. "Effect of different healing stages on stable isotope ratios in skeletal lesion". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 171 2 (2019): 285-297. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.23958.
    Published • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajpa.23958
  13. Amorim, António; Fernandes, Teresa; Taveira, Nuno. "Mitochondrial DNA in human identification: a review". Peer J 7:e 7314 (2019): https://peerj.com/articles/7314/.
    Published • http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7314
  14. Curto, Ana; Ana Curto; Patrick Mahoney; Anne-France Maurer; Cristina Barrocas-Dias; Teresa Fernandes; Geraldine E. Fahy; et al. "Diet and disease in Tomar, Portugal: comparing stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios between skeletons with and without signs of infectious disease". Journal of Archaeological Science 105 (2019): 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23958.
    Under revision • 10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.005
  15. Curto, Ana; Maurer, Anne-France; Dias, Cristina; Mahoney, Patrick; Fernandes, Teresa; Fahy, Geraldine. "Did military orders influence the general population diet? Stable isotope analysis from Medieval Tomar, Portugal". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11 8 (2018): 3797-3809. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12520-018-0637-3.pdf.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0637-3
  16. Ribeiro, Cheila; Relvado, Cláudia; Fernandes, Teresa. "A possible case of Paget's disease of the bones in the Collection of Identified Skeletons from Évora, Portugal (20th century)". Antropologia Portuguesa 35 (2018): 97-113. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/25418.
    Published
  17. Fernandes, Teresa Matos; Liberato, Marco; Marques, Carina; Cunha, Eugénia. "Three cases of feet and hand amputation from Medieval Estremoz, Portugal". International Journal of Paleopathology 18 (2017): 63-68. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879981716301528.
    Published
  18. Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa. "A possible Madura foot from medieval Estremoz, southern Portugal". International Journal of Paleopathology 13 (2016): 70-74. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/17462.
    Published
  19. Saragoça, Patrícia; Maurer, Anne-France; Šoberl, Lucija; Lopes, Maria da Conceição; Alfenim, Rafael; Leandro, Inês; Umbelino, Cláudia; et al. "Stable isotope and multi-analytical investigation of Monte da Cegonha: A Late Antiquity population in southern Portugal". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9 (2016): 728-742. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/45873.
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.07.010
  20. Anselmo, Daniela; Capela e Silva, F; Fernandes, Teresa. "Characterization of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in an identified skeleton from Évora, Portugal, using combined and comparative morphology and microscopy". International Journal of Paleopathology 12 (2016): 11-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.11.001.
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.11.001
  21. Magalhães, Bruno M.; Matos Fernandes, Teresa; Santos, Ana Luísa. "The unburied prisoners from the jail of the Inquisition of Évora, Portugal". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 39 (2015): 36-41. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/44537.
    Published
  22. Fernandes, Teresa; Granja, Raquel; Thillaud, Pierre. "Spectrometric analysis and scanning electronic microscopy of two pleural plaques from mediaeval Portuguese period". Revista Portuguesa de Pneumatologia 20 5 (2014): 260-263. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/11422.
    Published
  23. Fernandes, Teresa Matos; Paredes, Joana; Rebocho, Lurdes; Lopes, Maria Helena; Janeirinho, Vânia. "Roman funerary area in Évora: from bone remains to funerary rituals". Antropologia Portuguesa 29 (2012): 183-201. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/8093.
    Published
  24. Teresa Fernandes. "Biological Anthropology: current situation and prospects.". Xelb, revista de arqueologia, arte, etnologia e história 10 (2010): 581-586.
    Published
  25. Teresa Fernandes. "Understanding the past through skeletons.". Arqueologia Moderna e Contemporânea. 1 (2010): 43-53.
    Published
  26. Teresa Fernandes; Fernandes, Teresa Matos. "Annex I - The Pessegueiro Monument II (Sines). Anthropological study.". Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras, 17 (2009): 421-428. https://eao.oeiras.pt/index.php/DOC/article/view/168.
    Published
  27. Teresa Fernandes; Costa, Catarina; Almeida, Pedro; Serra, Miguel. "Unearthing the past: Palaeobiology of individuals exhumed from Rua do Adro and Santa Maria in Lagos". Xelb-revista de arqueologia, arte, etnologia e história 8 2 (2008): 329-336.
  28. Fernandes, Teresa; Costa, Catarina. "Klippel-Feil Syndrome with other associated anomalies in a Medieval Portuguese Skeleton (13th–15th century)". Journal of Anatomy 211 (2007): 681-685. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1403.
    Published
  29. Granja, Raquel; Fernandes, Teresa. "Archaeological intervention at the Atafonas site: anthropological analysis.". Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia 10 1 (2007): 37-41. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1517.
    Published
  30. Teresa Fernandes; Ferreira, Nuno Miguel; Diogo, Márcia; Costa, Catarina; Faria, Fernando. "A building, a plan, a burial, the sources of a leprosarium in Lagos?". Xelb, revista de arqueologia, arte, etnologia e história 8 1 (2007): 433-449.
    Published
  31. Padez, C.; Fernandes, Teresa; Mourão, I.; Moreira, P.; Rosado, V.. "Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in 7-9 Year-Old portuguese Children: Trends in Body Mass Index From 1970-2002". American Journal of Human Biology 16 6 (2004): 670-678. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1492.
    Published
  32. Moreira, P.; Fernandes, Teresa; Mourão, I.; Padez, C.; Rosado, V.. "Dietary calcium and body mass in Portuguese children". European Journal of Obesity 28 O11 (2004): http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1520.
    Published
  33. Fernandes, Teresa. "Television viewing is associated to obesity in Portuguese children". (2004): http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1718.
  34. Fernandes, Teresa Matos. "Palaeobiological study of a medieval population from Évora. The cemetery of the ancient Church of St Peter (Évora).". A cidade de Évora 4 II série (2000): 237-248. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/0872-2110_55_10.
    Published • 10.14195/0872-2110_55_10
  35. Fernandes, Teresa Matos; Parreira, Rui. "High-Medieval grave of Poço do Marra (Coutada dos Pinheiros, Mourão)". Portugalia, Nova Série XI-XII (1991): 155-159. http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/Port/article/view/4929.
    Published
  36. Teresa Fernandes; Pickford, Martin; Aço, Samuel. "New discoveries of primate fissure remnants on the "Humpata Plateau", Huíla, Southern Angola". Comptes Rendus de l' Academie des Sciences de Paris 310 (1990): 843-848.
    Published
  37. Teresa Fernandes. "Study of the anthropological remains from Covão do Almeida". Antropologia Portuguesa 8 (1990): 133-144.
    Published
  38. Abade, A.; Antunes, M. A.; Fernandes, M. T.; Mota, P. G.. "Inbreeding as measured by dispensations and isonymy in Rio de Onor, Portugal". International Journal of Anthropology 1 3 (1986): 225-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02442036.
    Published • 10.1007/bf02442036
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Pereira, Maria Teresa Ribeiro Matos Fernandes Rocha. "The Medieval Population of S. Miguel de Odrinhas (Sintra) - Biological Characterisation". PhD, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/11136.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/07 Health, Healing and Surviving.
IX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia. (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2024/01 Health, Diet, and Social Privilege in Medieval Estremoz, Portugal. 5.º Encontro Nacional do IN2PAST
2024 The transition from Muslim world to Portuguese Kingdom in South Portugal (11th–13th cent.). Universidade do Algarve. CEAACP.
Universidade do Algarve. CEAACP. (Portugal)
2022/09/06 Cultural Heritage in the Alentejo in the new 1920s: what challenges, uncertainties and resistance? [Conference Session]. VIII Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association.
University of Évora. (Évora, Portugal)
2022/07/16 Anthropocene & Man: from Africa to the World O Antropocénico!? Invade o Pavilhão do Conhecimento
~Ciência Viva Pavilhão do Conhecimento (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/06/02 When the skeletons come out from the earth ... Conversas com Ciência
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2022/04/20 Medieval graves at the Frei Manuel do Cenáculo National Museum: the way of life in times of the Christian conquest of the city of Évora: Biological Anthropology. Dia Internacional dos Monumentos e Sítios
Museu Nacional Frei Manuel do Cenáculo (ÉVORA, Portugal)
2021/12/17 When we cross Genetics with Biological Anthropology we learn that... Genéticamente Falando
Portuguese Genetics Society
2021/11/24 The Path of Man/The Paths of Men. Cruzando Saberes com a Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia.
Universidade de Évora
2021/10/15 Let's get the bones "talking" XXI SPB National Congress of Biochemistry
Universidade de Évora
2019/12/05 Who were the Bone Chapel Mummies? Missão Ciência & Arte
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2019/10/18 From birth to adulthood: the study of stable isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen in the medieval population of São Miguel de Odrinhas, Sintra (Portugal). XIII Congresso Ibérico de Arqueometria
(Portugal)
2019/10/18 The diet and mobility of urban and rural populations in Southern Portugal in Late Antiquity. XIII Congresso Ibérico de Arqueometria
2019/09/26 We are all Africans! The various journeys of humans from Africa to the World. Paleo Fall Meeting,
2019/09/21 The secrets that the nuns' skeletons reveal. VII Residência Cisterciense – Conventualidades: representações e vestígios do quotidiano
2019/06/28 Endocranial bone lesions in non-adults from the church of Santa Maria do Olival, Tomar (11th–17Th centuries). XV Congreso Nacional e Internacional de Paleopatologia
2019/06/28 A troubled relationship. Five cases of treponematosis from Tomar, Portugal (11th–17Th centuries). XV Congreso Nacional e Internacional de Paleopatologia,
2019 The transition from Muslim world to Portuguese Kingdom in South Portugal (11th–13th cent.). XIII Congresso Ibérico de Arqueometria
Universidade do Algarve. CEAACP. (Portugal)
2019 A dieta e a mobilidade de populações urbanas e rurais do Sul de Portugal na Antiguidade Tardia XIII Congresso Ibérico de Arqueometria
Universidade do Algarve. CEAACP. (Portugal)
2019 Dieta y dinâmica de los últimos musulmanes y los primeiros cristianos en el Algarve entre los siglos XII al XIV XIII Congresso Ibérico de Arqueometria
Universidade do Algarve. CEAACP. (Portugal)
2019 Do nascimento à vida adulta: o estudo dos isótopos estáveis de Carbono e Azoto na população medieval de São Miguel de Odrinhas, Sintra (Portugal). XIII Congresso Ibérico de Arqueometria
Universidade do Algarve. CEAACP. (Portugal)
2018/12/01 Breastfeeding and infant survival in a Medieval sample from São Miguel de Odrinhas (Portugal): preliminary results from the analysis of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen and dentin. VI Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia
2018/12/01 Paleopathology of the partially mummified female individual from Capela dos Ossos, Convento de S. Francisco, Évora, Portugal. VI Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia
2018/11/08 Episodes of life in the Middle Ages told by skeletons. I International Congress for Young Researchers in the Midlle Ages
2018/09/05 Diet and disease in Tomar, Portugal Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
(Barcelona, Spain)
2018/08/28 Intrabone stable isotope variation in skeletons with infectious diseases. European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association
(Croatia)
2018/03/21 Patterns of growth and health in skeletal remains from medieval necropolis of São Miguel de Odrinhas, Sintra (Portugal). Skeletons, Stories, and Social Bodies Conference (SSSB),
2018/03/03 Patterns of growth and health in skeletal remains from medieval necropolis of São Miguel de Odrinhas, Sintra (Portugal). Skeletons, Stories, and Social Bodies Conference (SSSB).
2017/12/15 Biological Anthropology and History: communication and complementarity. Seminário Medicina, Saúde e Doença no Portugal Medieval
Universidade do Porto
2017/09/08 Stable isotope comparison between apparently healthy and unhealthy individuals from medieval Tomar, Portugal. BABAO Conference
University of Liverpool (Liverpool)
2017/05/27 Syphilis in Templar lands? Seminário Sífilis, uma abordagem interdisciplinar
Secção Regional do Centro da Ordem dos Médicos
2016/11/16 The dead in the prisons of the Inquisition of Évora. Contribution of Biological Anthropology to the Research of this institution Seminário Inquisição: Cultural Material e Quotidiano.
Fundação Eugénio de Almeida. (Évora, Portugal)
2015/05/30 A possible Madura foot from medieval Estremoz, southern Portugal II Biological Anthropology Meeting
Universidade de Coimbra
2014/11/21 Talipes equinovarus: a case study from a medieval-modern necropolis in Estremoz. IV Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia
Universidade de Coimbra
2013/10/04 Differential diagnosis of an individual from the necropolis of Santa Maria do Olival (Tomar, Portugal). XII Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia
2013/05/01 Ten years of anthropological excavations in southern Portugal II International Meeting on Archaeology of Transition. The Funerary World.
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2013/04/29 Forget me not…Exposure of case studies detected in funerary contexts, which deposition is unusual (Portugal). II Congresso Internacional de Arqueologia de Transição
Universidade de Évora
2012/11/03 Oral pathology in a female individual in a medieval/modern necropolis of Tomar. III Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia
Universidade de Coimbra
2012/11/02 Head injuries and anomalous skull position: coincidence? A case of the Medieval/Modern Christian necropolis of Santa Maria do Olival Tomar, Portugal III Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia,
Universidade de Coimbra
2012/05/17 The Évora Collection of Identified Skeletons Ciclo de Conferências Colecções Osteológicas Portuguesas,
FCSH – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2011/09/16 Osteolytic Lesions in na Identified Skeleton from Évora (Portugal). XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia
2011/09/16 A possible new Pre-Columbian case of treponemal disease from a Portuguese cemetery (Santa Maria do Olival-Tomar). XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatologia
2007/09/28 Preliminary Study of the Osteological Material from Hypogeum of Sobreira de Cima (Moura, Portugal). VIII Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología
2006/10/21 Anthropological study of a population buried in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria da Graça (Historic Center of Lagos). 3º Encontro de Arqueologia do Algarve,

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role		 Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022 - Current WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE YOUNG PEO-PLE´S ATTITUDES TOWARDS PALAEONTOLOGY? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN PORTUGAL AND IRELAND
Co-supervisor
 Paleontology (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - Current The epidemiological transition in the interior of mainland Portugal told through the bones. Demographic and paleopathological study of the identified Évora collection
Supervisor of Célia Cristina Rodrigues Lopes
 Pós-doutoramento (Other)
2023 - 2025 Chimpanzee-Caregiver Relationships in Captivity: Impact on Social Dynamics and animal welfare
Supervisor
 Conservation Biology (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021 - 2023/12/18 Diet of a Carmelite Order during the 16th-18th AD at Lagos, Portugal.
Co-supervisor
 ARCHMAT EMJM Programme in ARCHaeological MATerials science (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Stable Isotope Analysis of the Diet of A Carmelite Order During the 16th – 18th Century AD at Lagos, Portugal.
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Ciência dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ARCHMAT) (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2020 - 2022/02/03 Mapping bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) behaviour in the Southern coast of Portugal.
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Biologia da Conservação (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2016 - 2019/05/03 Mitochondrial genome: contribution to the study of genetic markers with medico-legal, forensic and populational interest in immigrants from African countries integrated into the population of Lisbon.
Co-supervisor
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2014 - 2017/06/23 Comparing the feeding ecology of Propithecus edwardsi in disturbed and undisturbed forest in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Biologia da Conservação (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2013 - 2016/09/13 Metric analysis of sexual dimorphism of the scapula in the Portuguese population: A new method of sexual diagnosis.
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Evolução e Biologia Humanas (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2015/09/07 Growing up in a Medieval Tomar; Paleobiological Study of an Osteological Sample of Non-Adult Individuals, from the Santa Maria do Olival Necropolis, Tomar.
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Evolução e Biologia Humanas (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2009 - 2011/09/05 For Templar Lands. Paleobiological study of a human osteological sample buried in Santa Maria dos Olivais, Tomar.
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Evolução e Biologia Humanas
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2009 - 2011/09/05 Paleobiological study of an osteological sample buried in Santa Maria dos Olivais, Tomar.
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Evolução e Biologia Humanas (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2009 - 2011/02 Physical Activity and Instrumental Autonomy of Elderly People.
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Saúde e Bem-Estar das Pessoas Idosas (Master)
Universidade de Évora Escola Superior de Enfermagem de São João de Deus, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)		 Institution / Organization
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09 Organising Committee of the VIII Congress of the Portuguese Anthropology Association (2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09)
Congress
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2021/09/24 - 2021/09/25 VII Portuguese Paleopathology Conference. International Meeting. (2021/09/24 - 2021/09/25)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Évora Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2013 - 2019 Cycle of Conferences on Human Biology and Biochemistry, organized annually. (2013 - 2019)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event		 Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/09/30 - Current Equality/inequality in the past. Action to publicise to the general public how differences between social groups can be reflected in their skeletons.
Festival
 European Researchers' Night.
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021/09/24 - Current Stories that bones tell us.
Festival
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role		 Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023 Adult Sex Estimation Using the Patella. Analyzing the Effects of Thermally Induced Changes and of Secular Trend within the Portuguese Population (the 19th /20th and 20th/21st Centuries).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Beatriz Mouga dos Santos Costa de Almeida (Master)
2019/10/24 Diet and dynamic of the last Muslims in Algarve during the 12th-13th AD.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Judith Margarita López Aceves (Master)
2019/10/03 The Contribution of Archaeothanatology to the Understanding of Funerary Practices in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC in Southern Portugal: The Hypogea of Monte Canelas I (Portimão, Faro) and Monte do Carrascal 2 (Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja). PhD in Anthropology, specialty in Biological Anthropology.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Maria João de Sousa Neves (PhD)
2019/07/15 A look at the patella. Metric analysis for sexual diagnosis.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cláudia Maio dos Santos (Master)
2018/07/23 Revolving our past. A contribution to the analysis of funerary practices in the Chalcolithic. Study of human osteological remains from the Chamber of Sepulcher 2 of Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Mariana da Silva Garcia (Master)
2018/05/18 Resting in Peace or in Pieces? Tomb I and Death Management in the 3rd Millennium at the Perdigões Enclosure (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal). PhD on Anthropology
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Lucy Elizabeth Shaw (PhD)
2017/09/20 Diet and dynamic of Christians and Muslims – A picture of Évora in the 8th-13th AD.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rebecca Anne MacRoberts (Master)
2017/09/06 A story revealed by the people of the past: Anthropological study of the human bone remains exhumed from the Corridor and Atrium of Tomb 2 of Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tatiana Vanessa Oliveira Rodrigues (Master)
2016/05/09 Estimation of age at death by applying the Lamendin method to a sample of the Portuguese population.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Pedro Miguel Mira Fialho (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2015/09/11 Funerary Anthropology and Paleobiology of post-medieval Portuguese populations: the cases of Nossa Senhora da Anunciada and Espírito Santo. PhD in Anthropology, specializing in Biological Anthropology and Ethnoecology.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Nathalie Antunes Ferreira (PhD)
2015/05/26 Crossing the River: the Dental Morphology of Calcolithic Populations in the Middle Guadiana. Doutoramento em Antropologia, especialidade de Antropologia Biológica.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cláudia Minervina Souza Cunha (PhD)
2014/12/15 The thousand faces of a disease-Syphilis in Coimbra society at the beginning of the 20th century. Historical and paleopathological evidence in the Identified Collections of Coimbra. PhD in Anthropology, specialty in Biological Anthropology.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Célia Cristina Rodrigues Lopes (PhD)
2014/12/03 Isotopic analysis of osteological material a contribution to the knowledge of the Roman diet in the Pax Julia region (Beja).
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Patrícia Alexandra Calhau Saragoça (Master)
2014/07/30 Sexual diagnosis in human remains: the case of mass graves.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Raquel Ambrósio Alcobia Granja (Master)
2014/07/15 Violent accidental and intentional fractures. Medical Prints from Coimbra and Lisbon Archives between the 19th and 20th Centuries. PhD in Anthropology, specialty in Biological Anthropology.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Mário Pedro Ribeiro Cordeiro Peneda (PhD)
2013/11/22 Beyond the Visible World. Doutoramento em Antropologia, especialidade de Antropologia Biológica.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Sandra Sofia Domingos Assis (PhD)
2013/09/06 Modern childhood exposed in the bones. Characterization of a non-adult sample from the Roda da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Faro.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joana Maria Cabreira Cabral da Cunha Paredes (Master)
2013/03/14 Amieira do Tejo and Portuguese rurality in the 19th and 20th centuries. Analysis of a human osteological sample exhumed in the Praça de Armas do Castelo.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ângela Cristina Teves de Araújo (Master)
2013/03/14 The irreconciled of the faith of the Inquisition of Évora. Paleobiological analysis of a modern osteological sample from the “Prison cleaning yard”.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Bruno Miguel Silva Magalhães (Master)
2012/11/30 Nuances of Life and Death in Daily Life in the City of Salvador da Bahia in the 17th Century: The Search for Evidence in a Paleobiological Study. PhD in Anthropology
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Teresa Cristina de Sousa Mendonça (PhD)
2012/11/19 Sexual Diagnosis of the First Cervical Vertebra: Morphometric Analysis.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Marta Isabel Massano Pinto (Master)
2012/11/19 Sexual Diagnosis of the Second Cervical Vertebra: Metric Analysis.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria Inês Cruz Gama (Master)
2012/09/11 A New Look at the Children of Serpa. New Methodological Approach Applied to 25 Children from Medieval Serpa.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Liliana Veríssimo Carvalho (Master)
2012/09/11 An Identity Lost at Sea and Refound in the Bones: Assessment of the Population Affinities of a Sample of Slaves from the 15th-16th Centuries.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Catarina Raquel Saraiva Coelho (Master)
2012/01/26 Living death in Portugal: the informative potential of anthropological field reports (1994-2007). PhD in Anthropology.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cristina Barroso Silva da Cruz (PhD)
2012/01/18 Sexual diagnosis from the Metacarpals of a sample of Portuguese skeletons.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Nuno Filipe Currais Morgado (Master)
2011/12/22 Análisis morfológico y métrico del corazón humano adulto mediante necropsia y técnicas de diagnóstico por imagen. Aplicaciones clínicas y forenses. Tese de doutoramento europeu em Medicina
Thesis Member
 Francisco Javier Barca Dúran (PhD)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2011/09/23 The reliability of the method for estimating age at death using cranial sutures in middle-aged and elderly adults.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Marina Rodrigues Lourenço (Master)
2011/02/09 Death in Lisbon in the Middle Ages. Archaeological contribution (12th - 15th century). PhD in History, specialization in Archaeology.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria Margarida Ataíde Nunes (PhD)
2009/05/19 Memories from the Largo. Study of a human osteological sample exhumed in Largo Cândido dos Reis, Santarém (XVI-XVIII). Master's degree in Human Evolution.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Sofia Catarina Gabriel Tereso (Master)

Committee member

Activity description
Role		 Institution / Organization
2010 - Current Head of the committee of the 1st cycle in Human Biology.
Director
 Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021/09/24 - 2021/09/25 Scientific Committee of the VII Portuguese Paleopathology Conference. International Meeting.
Member
 Universidade de Évora Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2018/11/30 - 2018/12/01 Scientific Committee of the VI Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology.
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2016/11/25 - 2016/11/26 Scientific Committee of the VII Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2015/05/29 - 2015/05/30 Scientific Committee of the II BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL MEETING: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2014/11/21 - 2014/11/22 Scientific Committee of the VI Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology.
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2013/05/31 - 2013/06/01 Scientific Committee of the I BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL MEETING: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2012/11/02 - 2012/11/03 Scientific Committee of the III Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology.
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2010/11/20 - 2010/11/21 Scientific Committee of the II Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology.
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/07/14 - Current BIOLOGY |SUMMER SCHOOL 2022 Summer School
2002 - Current Biological Anthropology Biologia Humana
1996 - Current Human Biology Human Biology (Licenciatura) Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2013 - 2019 International Journal of Paleopathology Elsevier
2014 - 2018 Anthropological Science J-Stage

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/12/10 - Current Main member of the juri of the thesis project within the scope of the PhD in Anthropology, area of specialization in Biological Anthropology "OS INOCENTES DO CEMETERIO INFANTIL DO CONVENTO DE SÃO DOMINGOS (LISBOA, 1755 1840): STUDY OF GROWTH, SKELETAL MARKERS OF STRESS AND PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN NEONATAL AND CHILDREN INDIVIDUALS" presented by Ana Marina Rodrigues Lourenço. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/09/10 - Current Main arguer for: Ph.D. Research Proposal of SiYang Zeng "The Possibility of Sex Estimation Using Morphometric Methods on Adult Femora and Humeri without Population-specific Limitations" Doctoral Program in Anthropology: Specialization in Forensic Anthropology. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal