Biography

With a degree in Archaeology and History from the Faculty of Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra and a master’s degree in Archaeology and Territory from the same institution, where he defended his dissertation ‘Rede de caminhos do Reino do Kongo’ [Network of roads in the Kingdom of Kongo], he has developed a career of continuous archaeological research. At the same time, he has furthered his studies in the field of the History of Museums and Museology, focussing on the Queen Leonor Museum in Beja, where he currently works.

Research fields

• Museology
• History of science
• History of collections
• Knowledge networks

Selected publications

• Almeida, Nelson J., Catarina Guinot, Inês Ribeiro, João Barreira & Ana Catarina Basílio. “Human–Deer Relations during Late Prehistory: The Zooarchaeological Data from Central and Southern Portugal in Perspective.” Animals 14 (2024): 1424. [link] 🔓
• Costa, Mafalda Costa, Pedro Barrulas, Maria da Conceição Lopes, João Barreira, Maria da Piedade de Jesus, Sónia da Silva Domingos, Peter Vandenabeele & José Mirão. “Personal adornments in West-Central Africa — the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola).” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15 (2023): 22. [link] 🔓
• Costa, Mafalda Costa, Pedro Barrulas, Luís Dias, Maria da Conceição Lopes, João Barreira, Bernard Clist, Karlis Karklins, Maria da Piedade de Jesus, Sónia da Silva Domingos, Luc Moens, Peter Vandenabeele & José Mirão. “Determining the provenance of the European glass beads of Lumbu (Mbanza Kongo, Angola).” Microchemical Journal 154 (2020): 104531. [link]

Main projects

• “Museu Rainha Dona Leonor. Biografia de um acervo. Estudo e divulgação da história das coleções” [Queen Leonor Museum. Biography of a collection. Studying and disseminating the history of collections] — PhD thesis to be presented to the University of Évora, supervised by Elisabete Pereira (IHC — Universidade de Évora) and Deolinda Tavares (Queen Leonor Museum).