Ana M. S. Bettencourt

Ana M. S. Bettencourt is Assistant Professor of Archaeology (with Habilitation) at Departamento de História, Instituto de Ciências Socias da Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, where she teaches the Archaeology degree and masters. She has also given several lectures in other Portuguese and Spanish universities and has been advisor of several Ph.D. and master's theses and dissertations of Portuguese and foreign students. Her main research interests are: burial contexts and practices; rock art; metallurgy and mining of the Iberian Peninsula Prehistory, under which she has published numerous books, book chapters and articles in international journals and developed, as responsible researcher, several projects with international funding. Currently she is Head of the History Department and Director of the Master in Archaeology.