How to contact me
Private
Tel: +351226164056
Fax: +351226164068
E-mail: vojorge@clix.pt
Faculty
of Arts, University of Porto (FLUP)
Department of Heritage Sciences and Techniques (DCTP). Section: Archaeology
Address: Via Panorâmica, s/n.
4150- 564 Porto – Portugal
Biography
Born in Lisbon, January 1948, married September 1972.
Degree in History – Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon
– July 1972 – matter of the degree thesis: Lower and Middle
Paleolithic pebble tools of the South of Portugal
Lecturer of the University of Luanda (Lubango): 1973 – 1974
Lecturer of the University of Porto: 1974 - 1982
Doctor in Prehistory and Archaeology – Faculty of Arts of the University
of Porto – October 1982 - matter of Ph. D dissertation: Megalithic
passage graves of Northern Portugal
Auxiliary professor, Associate professor of the University of Porto –
Faculty of Arts – 1982-1990
Aggregation in History (Prehistory) – Faculty of Arts of the University
of Porto – June 1989 – matter of public lesson: Passage grave
necropolis in Atlantic Europe
Professor of Archaeology – Faculty of Arts of the University of
Porto – May 1990
Professor of Heritage Sciences and Techniques - Faculty of Arts of the
University of Porto – since February 2001
Research interests
Period: Late
Prehistory (Neolithic, Copper Age, Bronze Age)
Kind of societies: post-palaeolithic societies without an organization
based on the State (processes of social complexification and of construction
of social coesion with no formal state apparatus).
Kinds of subjects: organization of space; architecture; “art”(graphic
expression, markimng of the landscape); mental representations of the
world in connection with social and economic conditions; role of archaeology
and heritage in a postmodern world; connection between archaeology and
anthropology of non-European, non-state societies.
Teaching
Graduation
courses:
History and Theory of Archaeology
Archaeology and Heritage
Post-graduation courses or research coordination fields:
Preparation of Ph.D’s in
Late Prehistoric Archaeology (Neolithic, Copper and Bronze Age architectures);
Heritage issues and social role of Archaeology in contemporary society
Other activities
- President of the Committee for the Constitution of the Portuguese Institute
of Archaeology (Ministry of Culture) (1995/96)
- President of UISPP (since 2002)
- President of the Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology (SPAE)
(since 1990)
- Founder and President of ADECAP – Association for the Improvement
of Copperation in Iberian Archaeology (since 1997)
- Secretary-General (Portugal) of the 1rst (Porto) and 3rd (Vila Real)
Congresses of Iberian Archaeology .
- General editor of Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia (journal of
SPAE, published since 1919 – thematic area since 1997: social sciences)
- Founder and general editor of Journal of Iberian Archaeology (journal
of ADECAP, published since 1998 – thematic area: Iberian archaeology)
- Coordinator of the Porto’s Spring Round-tables (interdisciplinary
debates on Heritage) since 1997
- C. 300 titles published (papers, books, etc.)
- Co-direction of archaeological excavations since 1970
- Literary production: several books of poems published
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