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Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology - Laboratório de Antropologia Forense

The Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology is located in the Department of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra.

01/09/2026

The Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology participated in the 25th European Paleopathology Meeting, held in Berlin from August 3rd to August 7th.

The following works were presented at the meeting:

📃 Oral communications:

- Three probable cases of neoplasia in individuals from the Unidentified Skeletal Collection of Capuchos Cemetery. Ferreira MT; Gaspar RR; Coelho C; José A; Silva AM; Curate F.

- Elemental signatures of dental caries: an exploratory study using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) in the 21st-century identified dental collection of the University of Coimbra. Hernández N; Gomes RAMP; Oliveira-Santos I; Ferreira MT.

📃 Posters:

- Evidence of Cancer in an Individual from the First Identified Skeletal Collection of the Azores (Portugal). Curate F; Amendola M; Ferreira MT; Rodrigues F.

- Paleopathological Insights from the Convent of São Francisco in Coimbra: An Individual Case Study. Manso M; Ferreira MT; Wasterlain SN; Gaspar RR; Almeida M.

31/08/2026

From 27 to 29 August, Michela Amendola participated in the Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE) 2026 Symposium, held in Bucharest, Romania.
Michela presented the poster “Advancing s*x estimation from skull images through artificial intelligence”, authored by Michela Amendola, David Navega, Francisco Curate and Eugénia Cunha.
🏆 The work was awarded the Best Poster Presentation Award!

25/08/2026

Schneidar Barbosa Guerreiro participated in the VII Congresso Nacional de Antropologia Forense (VII CONAF), held in Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, from August 17 to 22.

On August 19 and 20, she presented two scientific posters entitled “Entre o avançar da idade biológica e o dimorfismo: a influência da idade na expressão de traços cranianos em coleções osteológicas identificadas portuguesas”, co-authored with Maria Teresa Ferreira and Francisco Curate, and “Impacto do bloqueio da puberdade na estimativa do s*xo biológico: para além do dimorfismo binário na Antropologia Forense”, co-authored with Fernanda Teotonio Dias Troysi, Claudia Inês Parellada, and Angelika von Schmude.

30/07/2026

On 22 July, the LFA welcomed students from the Institute for Field Research (IFR, USA) as part of the field school Death in the Late Medieval Period: The Lagares Necropolis Bioarchaeology Laboratory Project, Lisbon (Portugal), organised by Era Arqueologia.

29/07/2026

Marina Lourenço participated in the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, held in Oulu, Finland, from 10–12 June.
She presented the work entitled "Personhood in Death: Negotiating Belonging in a Modern Conventual Non-Adult Necropolis (Lisbon)".

23/07/2026

📰 Archaeological fieldwork in Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel (Azores)

Daniela Cabral is currently taking part in the archaeological excavations at the Convent of Santo André, in Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel (Azores). As part of her PhD research, she is contributing to the excavation and study of newly uncovered burials in the chancel of the church.

The work was recently featured by Lusa and published in the newspaper Açoriano Oriental.

🔗 https://www.lusa.pt/article/47484326/escavações-revelam-novos-enterramentos-na-capela-mor-de-igreja-de-vila-franca-do-campo

20/07/2026

Schneidar Guerreiro participated in the 35ª Reunião Brasileira de Antropologia (RBA), held in Goiás, Brazil, from July 13 to 17.

She presented the study entitled “Confiabilidade e precisão de métodos morfológicos cranianos em uma amostra da Coleção de Esqueletos Identificados Século XXI”, co-authored with Renata Castro, Maria Teresa Ferreira, and Francisco Curate. She was also a co-author of the study “Territorialidade, identidade e resistência: uma análise antropológica da Comunidade Quilombola Visão de Águia (Tocantins, Brasil)”, authored by Renata Castro, Maria Cecília Kayal, Cláudia Parellada, and Schneidar Guerreiro.

09/07/2026

📃New Paper

"Best practice for forensic anthropology reporting: a statement by the Board of the Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE)"

Read here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00414-026-03903-0

01/07/2026

Congratulations, Félix!

Yesterday, June 30, Félix Rodrigues defended his PhD thesis in Biological Anthropology: "O impacto do uso militar da Base das Lajes na Biologia Humana e na saúde da população da Praia da Vitória (ilha Terceira, Açores, Portugal): Análise das alterações químicas e paleopatológicas na primeira Coleção de Esqueletos Identificados dos Açores". The work was supervised by Professor Maria Teresa Ferreira, Professor Vítor Matos, and Professor Armando Mendes.

06/06/2026

📃New Paper

"Uniquely marked in bone: a case report of identification through distinctive features"

Read here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41935-026-00554-5

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3000-456

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