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Early Atlantic navigation: pre-portuguese presence in the Azores Islands

dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, António Félix
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Nuno O.
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorJoaquinito, Anabela
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-20T14:06:32Z
dc.date.available2016-12-20T14:06:32Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractWe present here evidence of pre-Portuguese presence in the Azores Islands, Portugal, found near the site of Grota do Medo (Posto Santo), discovered by Rodrigues (2013) in Terceira Island, Azores. This evidence was dated by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, and indicates the presence of human activity in Terceira Island before or during the XIth century. The evidence consisted in a man-made rock basin, which was found in a site that contains also striking similarities with many other aspects from ancient cultures, including other man-made rock basins, arrangements of large stones which resemble megalithic constructions, and inscriptions in stones which resemble ancient petroglyphs. Although the dating of this evidence is highly suggestive of the presence of human activity in the Azores Islands long before the arrival of the Portuguese navigators of the XVth century, there is no clear evidence which enables us to identify which specific culture may have existed in the Azores before the Portuguese arrival.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationRODRIGUES, António Félix; Martins, Nuno Miguel Ornelas; RIBEIRO, Nuno; JOAQUINITO, Anabela - Early Atlantic Navigation: Pre-Portuguese Presence in the Azores Islands. Archaeological Discovery. ISSN 2331-1967. Vol. 3 (2015), p. 104-113pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.4236/ad.2015.33010pt_PT
dc.identifier.eissn2331-1967
dc.identifier.issn2331-1959
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/21098
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherScientific Research Publishing
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectPre-Portuguese presence in the Azores Islandspt_PT
dc.subjectEarly Atlantic navigationpt_PT
dc.subjectArchaeological datingpt_PT
dc.subjectRock artpt_PT
dc.subjectMegalithic constructionspt_PT
dc.titleEarly Atlantic navigation: pre-portuguese presence in the Azores Islandspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage113
oaire.citation.issue3
oaire.citation.startPage104
oaire.citation.titleArchaeological Discovery
oaire.citation.volume3
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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