Mariana Rodrigues

Master degree in Archaeology and Territory from University of Coimbra Faculty of Arts and Humanities in 2020, with a dissertation on plant resources management in late prehistory, and a Bachelor degree in Archaeology, with a minor in Anthropology, from the same institution, in 2018. Working as Lead Field Archaeologist in the historic centre of Coimbra, recording and reporting all the facades renovation work in buildings classified as UNESCO World Heritage, namely in Paço das Escolas, since September 2021. Part of the research team of an Archaeology Research Project named ArqueoVento, as researcher responsible for the archaeobotany studies. In 2021 worked as an intern archaeologist at ERA Arqueologia S A, performing field work and all its components in several sites from different chronologies, during the internship I had the opportunity of making some botanical identifications of plant materials from two modern age sites, which inspired me to create the project "Lisboa entre vários continentes: produtos alimentares vegetais em contexto arqueológico (séc. XVI-XVIII)", that will be my PHD thesis. Throughout my university education I also participated in archaeological excavation campaigns as a volunteer at Villa Romana do Rabaçal (Roman), Villa Romana de São Simão (Medieval and Roman) and Castanheiro do Vento (Chalcolithic).