Posters by Marisol Ferreira
XIV Congress AIECM3 on Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics, Nov 2024
In 1550 priest Manuel de Nóbrega wrote to Simão Rodrigues exalting tobacco’s properties as a dige... more In 1550 priest Manuel de Nóbrega wrote to Simão Rodrigues exalting tobacco’s properties as a digestive aid used in tropical environments such as in Brazil where it was found, and soon it was established as a panacea in Portugal. This means that the material culture associated with its consumption soon started to mark the everyday life of Portugal’s inhabitants. The study of clay pipes in Portugal has increased immensely in this country in the last decade, however, this continues to be mostly a study of local discoveries most of the times associated with a specific site or city. In this paper we are going to try to do something different and wider by doing a regional analysis of clay pipe consumption and how certain habits gain in being considered in wider perspectives. To do so we have chosen the river Sado basin a wide region of about 7500 km2.
Recent investigations carried out concerning modern populations that lived in the Sado Valley and around its bay have confirmed the archaeological presence of distinctive individuals connected to urban and non- urban communities. Regarding both archaeological, literary, and iconographic evidence, it is our purpose to reconstruct features of the ways of using and identities of these communities devoted both to the sea and land, moments of isolation, and specific manifestations.
This approach deals with selected clay smoking pipes found during archaeological excavations carried out along a vast region that plays a direct connection with the Sado River, namely, Alcácer do Sal and Setúbal, but also smaller communities located in Praia Malha da Costa, and the Early Modern occupation of Tróia (part of Grândola municipality). These artefacts will be analysed within the framework of a given archeological assemblage and in the wider cultural context. Although usually only 17th and 18th centuries clay pipes are frequently considered it is of utmost importance to include the 19th century productions since they reveal continuity in consumption habits that makes comprehend long structural behaviours within populations.
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Posters by Marisol Ferreira
Recent investigations carried out concerning modern populations that lived in the Sado Valley and around its bay have confirmed the archaeological presence of distinctive individuals connected to urban and non- urban communities. Regarding both archaeological, literary, and iconographic evidence, it is our purpose to reconstruct features of the ways of using and identities of these communities devoted both to the sea and land, moments of isolation, and specific manifestations.
This approach deals with selected clay smoking pipes found during archaeological excavations carried out along a vast region that plays a direct connection with the Sado River, namely, Alcácer do Sal and Setúbal, but also smaller communities located in Praia Malha da Costa, and the Early Modern occupation of Tróia (part of Grândola municipality). These artefacts will be analysed within the framework of a given archeological assemblage and in the wider cultural context. Although usually only 17th and 18th centuries clay pipes are frequently considered it is of utmost importance to include the 19th century productions since they reveal continuity in consumption habits that makes comprehend long structural behaviours within populations.
Recent investigations carried out concerning modern populations that lived in the Sado Valley and around its bay have confirmed the archaeological presence of distinctive individuals connected to urban and non- urban communities. Regarding both archaeological, literary, and iconographic evidence, it is our purpose to reconstruct features of the ways of using and identities of these communities devoted both to the sea and land, moments of isolation, and specific manifestations.
This approach deals with selected clay smoking pipes found during archaeological excavations carried out along a vast region that plays a direct connection with the Sado River, namely, Alcácer do Sal and Setúbal, but also smaller communities located in Praia Malha da Costa, and the Early Modern occupation of Tróia (part of Grândola municipality). These artefacts will be analysed within the framework of a given archeological assemblage and in the wider cultural context. Although usually only 17th and 18th centuries clay pipes are frequently considered it is of utmost importance to include the 19th century productions since they reveal continuity in consumption habits that makes comprehend long structural behaviours within populations.