Jorge de Alarcão (born 3 November 1934 in

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) is a Portuguese

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Historical and Philosophical Sciences at the

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and became a Postgrad in Western European Archaeology at the

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. His doctoral dissertation was on ''Cerâmica Comum Local e Regional de Conimbriga''. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of

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(1985) and Santiago de Compostela (1996) and has oriented at least 50 students. Between 1967 and 1974 he directed the

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in Coimbra. From 1967 to 2000 he directed the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters of Coimbra. His more than ninety publications include ''Les villas romaines de São Cucufate'', written in collaboration with R. Etienne and F. Mayet. His

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publications include the two-volume edited work ''Roman Portugal'' (1988). His fields include

classical archaeology Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

, especially in Portugal, and

archaeological theory Archaeological theory refers to the various intellectual frameworks through which archaeologists interpret archaeological data. Archaeological theory functions as the application of philosophy of science to archaeology, and is occasionally referre ...

. He has been awarded the

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, the Prémio Gulbenkian de Arqueologia, and the "Génio Protector da Colónia Augusta Emérita" award.

External links

Biography at the Institute of Archaeology in Coimbra.
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