Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

2014 Edition
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Jorge, Vítor Oliveira

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_175
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Basic Biographical Information

Vítor Oliveira Jorge (Fig. 1) is a Portuguese archaeologist. Born in Lisbon in January 1948, he was awarded a degree in History (with a dissertation on Paleolithic archaeology) from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon in 1972. After being a lecturer at the University of Luanda (Angola), a territory where he had carried out several field research projects, he moved to the University of Porto, in the north of Portugal, where he taught from 1974 until 2011. His Ph.D. dissertation was awarded in 1982 on the basis of his analysis of passage graves (megalithic monuments) in the north of Portugal, in the fourth and fifth millennia BCE. The same theme was the object of his “aggregation” (public examination as a professor) in 1989. Vítor Jorge became a full professor of his faculty and university in 1990. He has been a member of the Department of Cultural Heritage Sciences and Techniques of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon since its...
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Further Reading

  1. Actas do I Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular. 1993-1995 (ed.). 8 vols. Porto: SPAE.Google Scholar
  2. Actas do III Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular. 2000 (ed.). 10 vols. Porto: ADECAP.Google Scholar
  3. Jorge, V.O. 1987.Projectar o passado. Ensaios sobre arqueologia e pré-história. Lisboa: Ed. Presença.Google Scholar
  4. - 1990. Arqueologia em construção. Ensaios. Lisboa: Ed. Presença.Google Scholar
  5. - 2000 (2nd edn. 2007). Arqueologia, património e cultura. Lisboa: Instituto Piaget.Google Scholar
  6. - 2003a. Olhar o mundo como arqueólogo. Coimbra: Ed. Quarteto.Google Scholar
  7. - 2003b. A irrequietude das pedras. Reflexões e experiências de um arqueólogo. Porto: Ed. Afrontamento.Google Scholar
  8. - 2005. Vitrinas muito iluminadas. interpelações de um arqueólogo à realidade que o rodeia. Porto: Campo das Letras.Google Scholar
  9. - 2006. Fragmentos, memórias, incisões. Novos contributos para pensar a arqueologia como um domínio da cultura. Lisboa: Ed. Colibri/IELT.Google Scholar
  10. - (ed.) 2006. Approaching prehistoric and protohistoric architectures of Europe from a dwelling perspective. Porto: ADECAP.Google Scholar
  11. Jorge, V.O & J. Thomas. (ed.) 2006/2007. Overcoming the modern invention of material culture. Porto: ADECAP.Google Scholar
  12. - 2008. Archaeology and the politics of vision in a post-modern context. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Google Scholar

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Archaeology and Heritage StudiesFaculty of Arts, University of PortoPortoPortugal