Jorge de Alarcão (born 3 November 1934 in

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of . The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...

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) is a Portuguese

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Historical and Philosophical Sciences at the

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and became a Postgrad in Western European Archaeology at the

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. His

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was on ''Cerâmica Comum Local e Regional de Conimbriga''. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of

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(1985) and

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(1996) and has oriented at least 50 students. Between 1967 and 1974 he directed the Machado de Castro National Museum in Coimbra. From 1967 to 2000 he directed the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters of Coimbra. His more than ninety publications include ''Les villas romaines de São Cucufate'', written in collaboration with R. Etienne and F. Mayet. His English publications include the two-volume edited work ''Roman Portugal'' (1988). His fields include classical archaeology, especially in Portugal, and

archaeological theory Archaeological theory refers to the various intellectual frameworks through which archaeology, archaeologists interpret archaeological data. Archaeological theory functions as the application of philosophy of science to archaeology, and is occasion ...

. He has been awarded the

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, the Prémio Gulbenkian de Arqueologia, and the "Génio Protector da Colónia Augusta Emérita" award.

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Biography at the Institute of Archaeology in Coimbra.
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