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Jorge, Vítor Oliveira

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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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  • Actas do I Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular. 1993-1995 (ed.). 8 vols. Porto: SPAE.

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  • Actas do III Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular. 2000 (ed.). 10 vols. Porto: ADECAP.

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  • Jorge, V.O. 1987.Projectar o passado. Ensaios sobre arqueologia e pré-história. Lisboa: Ed. Presença.

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  • - 1990. Arqueologia em construção. Ensaios. Lisboa: Ed. Presença.

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  • - 2000 (2nd edn. 2007). Arqueologia, património e cultura. Lisboa: Instituto Piaget.

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  • - 2003a. Olhar o mundo como arqueólogo. Coimbra: Ed. Quarteto.

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  • - 2003b. A irrequietude das pedras. Reflexões e experiências de um arqueólogo. Porto: Ed. Afrontamento.

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  • - 2005. Vitrinas muito iluminadas. interpelações de um arqueólogo à realidade que o rodeia. Porto: Campo das Letras.

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  • - 2006. Fragmentos, memórias, incisões. Novos contributos para pensar a arqueologia como um domínio da cultura. Lisboa: Ed. Colibri/IELT.

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  • - (ed.) 2006. Approaching prehistoric and protohistoric architectures of Europe from a dwelling perspective. Porto: ADECAP.

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  • Jorge, V.O & J. Thomas. (ed.) 2006/2007. Overcoming the modern invention of material culture. Porto: ADECAP.

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  • - 2008. Archaeology and the politics of vision in a post-modern context. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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  1. Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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  1. Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Claire Smith

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Jorge, V.O. (2014). Jorge, Vítor Oliveira. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_175

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