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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Vagner Carvalheiro Porto holds a master's and doctorate in Archaeology from the University of São Paulo (USP). As a researcher at USP, he carried out archaeological excavations in partnership with IGESPAR (Institute for the Management of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage, Portugal) and Brown University (USA), focusing on the forms of contact between the Roman Empire and local populations in Portugal, between 2006 and 2011. He also worked as a researcher at USP in collaboration with Tel Aviv University, carrying out excavations in Apollonia, Israel, from 1999 to 2003. He is currently carrying out archaeological research at the site of Tel Dor, Israel (FAPESP process 2020/16698-0; CNPq process 311883/2023-0).He is currently a professor in the Graduate Program in Archaeology at USP's Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and was a researcher in the Sabbatical Year program at USP's Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA-USP) in 2022. He is the current Chairman of the MAE-USP Culture and Outreach Committee.He has experience in the field of Archaeology, with an emphasis on Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology, working mainly on the following subjects: Provincial Roman Archaeology, Numismatics of the Ancient World, Exhibition Curatorship, Musealization of Archaeological Collections and Digital Humanities. He is the coordinator of LARP (USP's Provincial Roman Archaeology Laboratory), where he conducts research into the Roman provinces of Syria-Palestine and the Iberian Peninsula. He coordinates the agreement with the Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy, in partnership with professors Michele Cometa and Leonardo Fuduli. She coordinates the agreement with the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, in partnership with Professors Achim Lichtenberger, Hans Beck and Maria Cristina Kormikiari.He also coordinates the CNPq Research Groups on Ancient Numismatics and ARISE - Interactive Archaeology and Electronic Simulations. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at USP. He has a CNPq Productivity scholarship, level 2. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Why care about ancient ships? What can sunken sites tell us about our past? Focusing primarily on the archaeological record of shipwrecks, along with literary and iconographic evidence as well as contemporary theory, this curse examines how and why ancient mariners ventured across the "wine-dark seas" of the Mediterranean for colonization, travel, warfare, pilgrimage, and especially comme…
Why care about ancient ships? What can sunken sites tell us about our past? Focusing primarily on the archaeological record of shipwrecks, along with literary and iconographic evidence as well as contemporary theory, this curse examines how and why ancient mariners ventured across the "wine-dark seas" of the Mediterranean for colonization, travel, warfare, pilgrimage, and especially comme…
Cultural Contacts in Judaea-Palaestina during Roman Period: Coin Circulation and Urbanisation Studies in Tel Dor, Israel is an abroad inter-institutional program, composed by the University of São Paulo, the University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa, and theUniversity of Bristol, which aims to deepen our knowledge regarding the mechanisms of cultural contact and the processes of ur…
This visit is associated with the theoretical developments of my APR research (process no. 2020/16698-0) and aims to teach a postgraduate course at the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP) titled "Aegean Thrace: habitation, material culture and cultural interactions". The course will take place between October 28th and 31st, 2024, and will be worth 2…
This visit is associated with the theoretical developments of my APR research (process no. 2020/16698-0) and aims to teach a postgraduate course at the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP) titled "Aegean Thrace: habitation, material culture and cultural interactions". The course will take place between October 28th and 31st, 2024, and will be worth 2…
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The Capitoline Triade is composed by Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. Is belived that the cults origins came from the etruscans, that embraced italic deities. There is not an especific festivity dedicated to the Capitoline Triade in the roman calendar. That sugests that the cult was posterior to the creation of the calendars festivities, because such important deities werent contempladed. The a…
This Scientific Initiation project aims to deepen the study of the Christian catacomb of Marcellin and Peter, located in Rome, Italy, based on the analysis of the iconography, architecture, material culture and burials present there. Therefore, this research will seek to understand who were the Christians who built and were buried in the Catacomb of Marcellin and Peter, what were their re…
This research aims to deepen the study of the funeral statuettes, also called shabtis or ushabtis, of the 21st Dynasty (1069-945 BC) present in the Egyptian collection of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP). It is intended to review and update the information that exists in the catalogue produced by Prof. Dr. Antonio Brancaglion Junior (in memo…
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This postdoctoral project aims to investigate the archaeological contexts integrated with the multiple intercultural, social, religious and economic processes concerning the province of Palestine during the Roman period (I BCE - II CE), more precisely, the region of Samaria. The general goal connects to studies related to recent debates about the Ancient Mediterranean and cultural and sym…
This paper aims to study the iconography of coins over the four decades of the reign of Vittorio Emanuele III, the last de facto king of Italy. Through memory and historical context of the events of the Risorgimento, of Vittorio II, Umberto I, the Great War and Mussolini's ventennio, the Italian coins of the period offer a vast resource for understanding how war, nationalism and classical…
The present study aims to analyze the materiality of the reoccupations of tombs of elite members of ancient Egyptian society (3000 BC - 30 BC) from information on the burials of the Theban necropolis TT 32, TT 49, TT 99, TT 400 and MIDAN 05. In a second step, the research seeks to relate this information to the Egyptian objects in the MAB-UNASP collection. We intend to understand the phen…
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The present project aims to investigate the cultural interactions resulting from the Roman presence in Ancient Palestine, focusing on material culture such as architecture, cultural symbols, and circulation of currency in the region. This research will also consider textual sources related to Samaria and its inhabitants, under the prism of the contextual archaeological approach and engagi…
The Scientific Initiation project "Funerary Servants/Shabtis of the 21th Dynasty (1069-945 B.C.) from the collection of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of USP: updating and analysis" aims to revise and update the data of seven shabtis from the museum's collection, as well as to conduct an iconographic analysis of these objects. The project seeks to understand how their physical ch…
This project, as part of a master program research, proposes a study about the Roman amphorae intrinsically related to the military supply system that provided the necessary resources to the Roman troops stationed in the Vetera I legionary camp and the Cugernii settlement (later Colonia Ulpia Traiana), to be accomplished in the Archäologisches Institut - Philosophische Fakultät (Institute…
This work will analyze the public image of Roman imperial women through coins, along the Julius-Claudian family, when the Principality was established under the power of Augustus (27 BC) until the death of Nero (68 AD). In this period, which involved women of five generations, it will be shown how these characters managed to improve their visibility in public life, with tasks related to t…
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