FALCO wins accolade from Portugal’s Science Council
. The Portuguese Science Council (FCT) has appraised the outcomes of the 18-month period when FALCO received direct funding as an Exploratory Research Project (EXPL/HAR-HIS/1135/2021). . FALCO was awarded a rating of Excellent, the highest possible, in its final evaluation by an international committee of eight experts led by CSIC Professor Cristina de la Puente. […]
Art of Falconry in Central Portugal
Along with the Associação de Desenvolvimento do Carvalhal, a local organisation, FALCO team member Nunziatella Alessandrini coordinated The Art of Falconry, an event taking place on 18 October 2025 at the Quinta da Granja in Carvalhal do Bombarral, Central Portugal. The event included talks by Filipe Themudo Barata and falconer António Carapuço, who introduced the […]
Medieval falconer records come to light
. FALCO researchers Diana Martins and Afonso Soares de Sousa have discovered no less than five documents, dating from the fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries, relating to falconry. These help illuminate matters still relatively unknown, such as bird-catching, the social and economic standing of royal falconers, and their recompense by kings. All five documents […]
Towards a Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary approach to Historical Zooanthropology: Opening considerations from the FALCO Project
Tiago Viúla de Faria https://medievalista.iem.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/medievalista/article/view/614
FALCO Library at IEM NOVA
. . .Dowload title list in SRV (Excel) format. Opens in Zotero. The title list can also be downloaded in CSV (Excel) format. . The FALCO Library at NOVA University of Lisbon’s Instituto de Medievais is a small reference collection specialising in the medieval human-animal world, with special regard for birds of prey and for […]
O FALCO visitou El Haouaria
Uma vila intimamente conectada com o meio natural. O gado bovino e ovino, os cães de guarda e caça e os galináceos espalham-se pelos campos circundantes desta povoação e cruzam-se, inclusivamente, com o meio urbanizado. O mar, que circunda toda a região, tem também uma presença marcante que se espelha na gastronomia local. Tudo isto […]
Cycle de Conférences do Laboratoire d’Archéologie et d’architecture Maghrébines
De visita a Tunes, o investigador principal do projeto FALCO Tiago Viúla de Faria, apresentou uma comunicação, a convite da Professora Beya Abidi da Université de la Manouba (Tunes), na Bibliothèque de la ville de Tunis/Dar ben Achour (52 rue du Pacha, Tunes), no âmbito do Cycle de Conférences do Laboratoire d’Archéologie et d’architecture Maghrébines. […]
Falcoaria. Saberes e práticas no quadro paisagístico e patrimonial de Salvaterra de Magos
. . Nos dias 20 e 21 de maio, o Projecto FALCO organiza, em parceria com a Falcoaria Real, o seminário Falcoaria. Saberes e práticas no quadro paisagístico e patrimonial de Salvaterra de Magos. A actividade é gratuita e limitada às vagas existentes, requerendo apenas inscrição prévia, até 18 de Maio, para o endereço falco@fcsh.unl.pt. […]