Instituições

Unidade(s) de Investigação

CHAM — Centro de Humanidades

Aspecto de zona ribeirinha de Santos in "Grande Panorama de Lisboa", Museu Nacional do Azulejo.

Since the 1990s, ship remains are being identified in Lisbon’s riverfront, in construction works related with urban development and renovation. The first ones were identified during the expansion of the subway in Corpo Santo and in the Cais do Sodré station tunnel. The last ones were discovered and recorded between 2020-2021. Besides the ships, several ship timbers reused in the construction of nautical structures, or in revetments, or waterfront structures as in the case of D. Luis I Square and D. Carlos I avenue were recovered.

These remains are markers of the evolution of the waterfront landscape and the way in which they entered the archaeological record shows different strategies for reusing end-of-life ships, as a base for the landfills that gained land from the Tagus or as raw material for the construction of nautical structures, port or shipbuilding, which became elements of the maritime cultural landscape of the city of Lisbon. Therefore, its study constitutes an opportunity to understand the development of the port city, necessarily interdisciplinary, because it is of interest to areas such as history, history of geography, geology, paleoecology, among others.

Equipa

Patrícia Carvalho (CHAM)

Tiago Silva (CHAM)

Francisco Mendes (CHAM)

Sofia Pereira (CHAM)

Marco Freitas (CHAM)