April 16, 2026

To celebrate our 2026 Fellowship recipients , we connected with this year’s awardees to learn more about their projects and the unique paths that led them into the field of archaeology.

We’re thrilled to introduce Dany Coutinho Nogueira, recipient of the prestigious 2026 Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship !

Dany Coutinho Nogueira (CIAS – Research Center for Anthropology and Health – University of Coimbra)

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Along the banks of the Tagus River in central Portugal lie the Muge shell middens, remarkable Mesolithic sites that hold the stories of some of Atlantic Portugal’s last hunter-fisher-gatherers.…