ICArEHB

Name: ICArEHB
Address: Campus de Gambelas, Faro, 8005-139, PT
Telephone: +351289800899

Currently, ICArEHB members are actively participating in a large number of projects taking place across Europe and Africa.

The Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour is located in Faro, PT, and aims to build and share an integrative understanding of the origins and evolution of human behaviour, through rigorous and innovative research. ICArEHB brings together a group of foreigner and national researchers with a main goal: developing research and contribute to a better understandi

ng of the evolution of human behavior from an archaeological and anthropological perspective. Research is organized in three groups - Prehistoric coastal adaptations, African archaeology and Human Evolution, Development of complex societies - focusing mostly on the emergence of Anatomically Modern Humans, hunter-gatherer coastal adaptations, the development of complex societies, and african archaeology using different disciplines and methodological approaches, such as geoarchaeology, use-wear analysis, zooarchaeology, paleobotany and GIS.

03/09/2026

🤖🔍 AI and Archaeology: New Tools for Understanding the Past
IA e Arqueologia: Novas Ferramentas para Conhecer o Passado

On 26 September, researcher João Cascalheira takes the stage at in Faro to explore how is transforming the way we study the past — a conversation about innovation, , and the digital tools reshaping our understanding of human history. 🌍

No dia 26 de setembro, o investigador do João Cascalheira sobe ao palco da em Faro para explorar como a está a transformar a forma como estudamos o passado — uma conversa sobre inovação, e as ferramentas digitais que estão a mudar o modo como conhecemos a história da humanidade. 🌍

📍 FNAC Faro · 🗓 26 September / 26 setembro · 19h00
🎟 Free entry / Entrada livre

02/09/2026

🎉 The LEXA Seminar Series is back!
After the huge success of our first season, we're delighted to announce the return of the Advances in Experimental Archaeology seminar series.
Kicking off the new season: uncover the secrets of stone tool retouching with Dr Eva Francesca Martellotta. Join us for the next session in the seminar series!

📅 Date: Monday, September 14, 2026
🕑 Time: 14:00 (UTC+1, Lisbon time)
📍 Location: Online via Zoom
🧑‍🔬 Speaker: Dr Eva Francesca Martellotta (Human-Environment Dynamics Laboratory, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
🦴 Talk Title: Wood and Osseous Retouchers from an Experimental and Traceological Perspective
🔗 More info & registration: https://www.icarehb.com/lexa/

27/08/2026

🔥 Can freeze–thaw cycles erase traces of ancient ? researchers William Chase Murphree, Godefroy Devevey & Vera Aldeias tackle this question in a new open access study in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports — with major implications for how we read residues in the record.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105970

25/08/2026

🪨 Same tools for 25,000 years — by choice? A new open access led by researcher Osama Samawi and co-authored by Ana Gomes, Elena Skosey-LaLonde, Célia Gonçalves, Milena Carvalho, Jeffrey Rose, M***a Raja, João Cascalheira, Jonathan Haws, Michael Benedetti, Pedro Horta & Nuno Bicho argues that simplicity at Txina-Txina, , was a smart adaptive strategy — not a technological dead end.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10512870/v1

31/07/2026

Everyone else: "See you at the beach!" 🏖️
The ICArEHB team: "See you in the field." ⛏️

Same sun, same sweat... very different tan lines!
While the coast fills up this summer, our researchers are out in the field, uncovering traces of human history that have waited thousands of years to be found!

Happy summer from ICArEHB! ☀️

Illustration created with AI)

30/07/2026

⚒️ Where did the used at Leceia come from? researcher João Luís Cardoso co-authors this open access study in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, tracing supply networks in the region during the third millennium BC — a window into trade and exchange in .

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105960

27/07/2026

On 21 July, we had the pleasure of welcoming Adela Cebeiro (New York University, Department of Anthropology) for a seminar on individual variation and technical skill in capuchin tool use, and its implications for .

We are deeply grateful for her insightful talk and the engaging discussion that followed with our team. Studying tool use in living primates like capuchins offers valuable clues into the origins of technical skill in our own lineage — a true privilege to host this conversation.

Thank you, Adela, for your generosity and expertise! 🐒🔎

16/07/2026

🌍 A decade of research in — and what it reveals about early human occupation in southern Africa. researchers Nuno Bicho, Célia Gonçalves, João Cascalheira, Jonathan Haws, Jeffrey Rose, Michael Benedetti, Milena Carvalho & M***a Raja co-author this open access study in the Journal of .
🔗 https://www.doi.org/10.1007/s41982-026-00266-1

02/07/2026

🦴 When did our lineage part ways with chimpanzees? researchers João d'Oliveira Coelho, René Bobe, and Susana Carvalho co-author this open access study in Primates, revisiting one of 's most fundamental questions — the divergence.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-026-01269-w

Endereço

Campus De Gambelas
Faro
8005-139

Telefone

+351289800899

Website

http://www.icarehb.com/

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