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Sara Liliana Magalhaes Barbosa Garces

Adjunct Professor - ACRP - Archaeology, Conservation, Restoration, and Heritage · Polytechnic University of Tomar

https://researchid.co/saragarces
@ipt.pt
23Scopus Publications
302Google Scholar Citations
9Google Scholar h-index
9Google Scholar i10-index

Research Interests

Rock Art Archaeology; Prehistoric Art; Rock Art; Archaeometry;

Biography

Archaeologist and rock art researcher, coordinator of Rock Art Archaeology Chair (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar). Directs FIRST-ART (Europe's oldest rock art chronology and archaemetry studies) and RA3I AI-rock art consortium (Techframe/IPT/ITM). Tagus Basin PhD pioneer of superimposition analysis. Leads or co-leads multidisciplinary projects across Iberian Peninsula, UK, South Africa, Turkey, Colombia, Brazil, bridging fieldwork and computational innovation for prehistoric symbolic systems.

Education

Degree in Archaeology from Minho University (2007) International Erasmus Mundus Master in Quaternary and Prehistory from Università di Ferrara (Italy), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (France), Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University (Portugal) and Instituto Politecnico de Tomar (Portugal) (2009) PhD in Quaternary, Cultures and Materials (Portugal) (2017) Master in Virtual Heritage from Alicante University (2024)

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. The Tagus Valley Rock Complex, Portugal: A chronological proposal
    Anthropologie France, 2026
  2. A Multi-Stage Deep Learning Framework for Automatic Pigment Classification and Filter Prediction in Rock Art Paintings
    IEEE Access, 2026
  3. Exploring Artificial Intelligence Capabilities in the Detection and Classification of Prehistoric Rock Art Paintings
    Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2026
  4. Early stages of Palaeolithic rock art in southern Iberia. Malaga area
    Complutum, 2025
  5. Art in red: New dates for paintings in the Cave of Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Spain
    Journal of Archaeological Science, 2025

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