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  1. Porous skeletal lesions and respiratory infection-related changes in Chalcolithic non-adults: A biocultural approach from Camino del Molino (southeastern Iberia)

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, June 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  2. Skeletal Trauma and Social Dynamics in Medieval Silves (Southern Portugal): Islamic Versus Christian Populations

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, April 2026, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  3. Cribra orbitalia and cribra cranii in perspective: Rethinking etiology through life course and ONE Paleopathology approaches

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, March 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  4. Biological sex estimation in experimentally burnt patellae: exploring sexual dimorphism through comparative analysis

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  5. Casting light in the shadows: Exploring the influence of biological sex and age-at-death on heat-induced shrinkage in experimentally burned patellae

    Article • Forensic Science International Reports, December 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  6. A tool for non‐parametric approximation of mortality in skeletal samples of imprecise age estimations

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, November 2024, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  7. Schmorl's nodes in a historic adult skeletal sample (19th to 20th centuries): An analysis of age, sex and occupation

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, September 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  8. Using portable X‐ray fluorescence elemental analysis to explore porous skeletal lesions: Interplay of sex, age at death, and cause of death

    Article • American Journal of Biological Anthropology, May 2024, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  9. The Role of Fe, S, P, Ca, and Sr in Porous Skeletal Lesions: A Study on Non-adult Individuals Using pXRF

    Article • Biological Trace Element Research, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  10. Elemental analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence: Guidelines for the study of dry human bone

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, March 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  11. Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe: potential association with malaria and past migrations

    Article • Anthropological Science, January 2024, Anthropological Society of Nippon

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  12. Nódulos de Schmorl em indivíduos da Colecção de Esqueletos Identificados Século XXI (CEI/XXI) da Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, December 2023, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  13. Changes in mortality by tuberculosis in non-industrialized Coimbra (Portugal): Trends between 1861 and 1914

    Article • Tuberculosis, December 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  14. A biocultural study of nasal fracture, violence, and gender using 19th–20th century skeletal remains from Portugal

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, May 2023, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  15. Adult sex estimation based on the 12th thoracic and 1st lumbar vertebrae from a Portuguese contemporary population: Effects of degenerative lesions and comparison of accuracy with other skeletal areas

    Article • La Revue de Médecine Légale, April 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  16. Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Gwen Robbins Schug, Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  17. Methods for sex estimation of prepubertal individuals (< 12 years old): bibliographic review and future directions

    Article • Anthropologischer Anzeiger, October 2022, Schweizerbart

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  18. Frequency and co‐occurrence of porous skeletal lesions in identified non‐adults from Portugal (19th to 20th centuries) and its association with respiratory infections as cause of death

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, June 2022, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  19. Changes in mortality in a non-industrialized Portugal: Coimbra Municipal Cemetery records (1861–1914) and identified osteological collections

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, June 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  20. Twenty‐first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward

    Article • American Journal of Biological Anthropology, March 2022, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos, Dr Gwen Robbins Schug

  21. Condylus tertius: A review of a neglected developmental condition

    Article • Anthropologischer Anzeiger, February 2022, Schweizerbart

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  22. Anemia, cribra cranii and elemental composition using portable X-ray fluorescence: A study in individuals from the Coimbra Identified Osteological Collections

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  23. Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes

    Article • BMC Biology, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos, Craig Cessford

  24. Procesos infecciosos en cazadores-recolectores de Patagonia Austral: Evidencias en restos óseos del Holoceno medio y tardío (ca. 5200-100 años aP)

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, September 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  25. Differential diagnosis of a diffuse sclerosis in an identified male skull (early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal): A multimethodological approach for the identification of osteosclerotic dysplasias in skeletonized individuals

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  26. O arquivo de Marie-Louise Bastin

    Article • Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra, June 2021, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  27. Paleopathological diagnosis of a proportionate short stature on a female skeleton from the Coimbra collection: Turner syndrome versus other causes

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, June 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  28. Análise da produção científica sobre a Tuberculose em Portugal: Revisão Integrativa da literatura

    Article • Revista Brasileira Multidisciplinar, April 2021, Revista Brasileira Multidisciplinar - Rebram

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  29. Elemental Composition in Female Dry Femora Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF): Association with Age and Osteoporosis

    Article • Calcified Tissue International, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  30. The first probable evidence of leprosy in a male individual (17th-19th century AD) unearthed in Northern Portugal (Travanca, Santa Maria da Feira)

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, March 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  31. História da Ciência no Ensino. Revisitando Abordagens, Inovando Saberes

    Article • January 2021, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  32. Atypical dental wear patterns in individuals exhumed from a medieval Islamic necropolis of Santarém (Portugal)

    Article • Anthropological Science, January 2021, Anthropological Society of Nippon

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  33. Novo método de extração de amidos do cálculo dentário e criação de uma coleção identificada para a reconstrução das dietas do passado

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, December 2020, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  34. Oldest evidence of tuberculosis in Argentina: A multidisciplinary investigation in an adult male skeleton from Saujil, Tinogasta, Catamarca (905–1030 CE)

    Article • Tuberculosis, December 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  35. Test of the auricular surface sex estimation method in fetuses and non-adults under 5 years old from the Lisbon and Granada Reference Collections

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  36. A new approach to recording nasal fracture in skeletonized individuals

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  37. Severe skeletal lesions, osteopenia and growth deficit in a child with pulmonary tuberculosis (mid-20th century, Portugal)

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  38. Diet and mobility during the Christian conquest of Iberia: The multi-isotopic investigation of a 12th–13th century military order in Évora, Portugal

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  39. Osteological evidence of short stature and parieto‐squamosal arch craniosynostosis in a non‐adult male from the 13th century Leiria, Portugal

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, March 2020, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  40. A lunate-triquetral coalition from a commingled funerary context from the Chalcolithic Perdigões ditched enclosures of Portugal

    Article • Anthropologischer Anzeiger, February 2020, Schweizerbart

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  41. Evaluation of the auricular surface method for non‐adult sex estimation on the Lisbon documented collection

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2020, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  42. Contribution of paleopathology to the knowledge of the origin and spread of tuberculosis: evidence from Portugal

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, December 2019, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  43. Coleções osteológicas identificadas: importância para a antropologia

    Article • Metode Science Studies Journal, July 2019, Universitat de Valencia

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  44. Exostosis auditiva externa en individuos adultos del holoceno tardío (1500 AP - siglo XIX) en Patagonia Austral

    Article • Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica, December 2018, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  45. [Recensão a] Sacramento, Octávio; Ribeiro, Fernando Bessa (orgs.) 2016. Planeta SIDA: diversidade, políticas e respostas sociais.

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, January 2018, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  46. Archaeological Human Remains

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  47. Skulls and Skeletons from Documented, Overseas and Archaeological Excavations: Portuguese Trajectories

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  48. Mecanismos de atención materno infantiles en dos contextos comparativos: México-Beijing

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, December 2017, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  49. A novel approach: combining dental enamel hypoplasia and paleoparasitological analysis in medieval Islamic individuals buried in Santarém (Portugal)

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, December 2017, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  50. Book review

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  51. New Method for Sex Prediction Using the Human Non-Adult Auricular Surface of the Ilium in the Collection of Identified Skeletons of the University of Coimbra

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, July 2017, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  52. Sample-specific odontometric sex estimation: A method with potential application to burned remains

    Article • Science & Justice, July 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  53. Differentiating between rhinosinusitis and mastoiditis surgery from postmortem medical training: A study of two identified skulls and hospital records from early 20th century Coimbra, Portugal

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  54. A possible Echinococcus granulosus calcified cyst found in a medieval adult female from the churchyard of Santo Domingo de Silos (Prádena del Rincón, Madrid, Spain)

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Manuel Francisco Pereira, Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  55. Paleohistology and the study of human remains: past, present and future approaches

    Article • Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica, June 2016, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  56. Evidence of contact between New and Old World: paleoparasitological and food remains study in the Tagus river population of Sarilhos Grandes (Montijo, Portugal)

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  57. The unburied prisoners from the jail of the Inquisition of Évora, Portugal

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  58. Bone Diagenesis and its Implication for Disease Diagnosis: The Relevance of Bone Microstructure Analysis for the Study of Past Human Remains

    Article • Microscopy and Microanalysis, July 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sandra Assis, Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  59. Archives and skeletons: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of paleopathology of tuberculosis

    Article • Tuberculosis, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  60. Trends in mortality from pulmonary tuberculosis before and after antibiotics in the Portuguese sanatorium Carlos Vasconcelos Porto (1918–1991): Archival evidence and its paleopathological relevance

    Article • Tuberculosis, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  61. Probable prostate cancer in a pre-Incaic individual from Pukara de la Cueva, northwestern Argentina

    Article • Anthropologischer Anzeiger, May 2015, Schweizerbart

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  62. A saúde dos nossos antepassados: um olhar sobre a paleopatologia

    Article • January 2015, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  63. Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)

    Article • May 2014, JSTOR

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  64. Minería en aljustrel (Portugal): salud, enfermedad y actividades en los habitantes del pasado

    Article • Jangwa Pana, May 2014, Universidad del Magdalena

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  65. La danza de los esqueletos: la enseñanza de la bioarqueología a los niños y al público en general.

    Article • Jangwa Pana, May 2014, Universidad del Magdalena

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  66. Portugal

    Article • European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  67. Beyond the visible world: the role of microscopy in the study of past human conditions

    Article • Microscopy and Microanalysis, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  68. Treponematosis in Pre-Columbian Jamaica: a biocultural approach to the human cranium found in Bull Savannah

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  69. Leprogenic odontodysplasia: new evidence from the St. Jørgen’s medieval leprosarium cemetery (Odense, Denmark)

    Article • Anthropological Science, January 2013, Anthropological Society of Nippon

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  70. Leprosy in individuals unearthed near the Ermida de Santo André and Leprosarium of Beja, Portugal

    Article • Anthropological Science, January 2013, Anthropological Society of Nippon

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  71. Comparison of the Entheseal Changes of theos coxaeof Portuguese Males (19th–20thcenturies) with Known Occupation

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, December 2012, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  72. Skeletal and Surgical Evidence for Acute Osteomyelitis in Non-Adult Individuals

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  73. Portuguese Developments in Paleopathology

    Article • June 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  74. Assessing the influence of occupational and physical activity on the rate of degenerative change of the pubic symphysis in portuguese males from the 19th to 20th century

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  75. Beyond the cause of death: other pathological conditions in a female individual from the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection (Portugal)

    Article • Anthropological Science, January 2012, Anthropological Society of Nippon

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  76. Evidence of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in individuals from the Coimbra Skeletal Identified Collection (Portugal)

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  77. Better a Broader Diagnosis Than a Misdiagnosis: The Study of a Neoplastic Condition in a Male Individual who Died in Early 20th Century (Coimbra, Portugal)

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  78. The Coimbra Workshop in Musculoskeletal Stress Markers (MSM): an annotated review

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, January 2011, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  79. Syphilis and cirrhosis: a lethal combination in a XIX century individual identified from the Medical Schools Collection at the University of Coimbra (Portugal)

    Article • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, December 2010, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  80. Body modification and paleopathological evidence in the iconography from the ‘Philosophical Travel’ to Brazilian Amazonia by Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1783 – 1792)

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, January 2010, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  81. Broken ribs: Paleopathological analysis of costal fractures in the human identified skeletal collection from the Museu Bocage, Lisbon, Portugal (late 19th to middle 20th centuries)

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  82. Mycocerosic acid biomarkers for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in the Coimbra Skeletal Collection

    Article • Tuberculosis, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  83. Pathogenesis of apical periodontal cysts: guidelines for diagnosis in palaeopathology

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, April 2007, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  84. On the trail of pulmonary tuberculosis based on rib lesions: Results from the human identified skeletal collection from the Museu Bocage (Lisbon, Portugal)

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, December 2005, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  85. Anatomy of a serial killer: Differential diagnosis of tuberculosis based on rib lesions of adult individuals from the Coimbra identified skeletal collection, Portugal

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, December 2005, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  86. Preface to the proceedings of the 14th European meeting of the Palaeopathology Association in Coimbra, Portugal

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  87. Pathological evidence in the Pre-Columbian human remains from the Lee Collection (Jamaica)

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, January 2002, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  88. A picture of tuberculosis in young Portuguese people in the early 20th century: A multidisciplinary study of the skeletal and historical evidence

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2001, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  89. [Recensão a] Tudge, C. 2002. Neandertais, bandidos e agricultores: como começou realmente a agricultura?

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, January 2001, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  90. Children at the Convent: Comparing Historical Data, Morphology and DNA Extracted from Ancient Tissues for Sex Diagnosis at Santa Clara-a-Velha (Coimbra, Portugal)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  91. Os caminhos da paleopatologia: passado e desafios

    Article • Antropologia Portuguesa, January 2000, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  92. Mortal combat during the medieval christian reconquest in Évora, Portugal

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, November 1998, Wiley

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos

  93. Portugal

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos