Trainee at the Nova University of Lisbon and the University of Orleans (France)
Within the scope of research support, Ana Cadena-Irizar, a Mexican researcher who is taking her PhD in Cultural Heritage Conservation in a joint programme between the Nova University of Lisbon and the Université d’Orléans in France, was at the Technical Area of the Cláudio Torres Mértola Museum from 3 to 7 June 2024.
She explains that she is ‘studying the Islamic glass of the Gharb al-Andalus from the 8th to the 13th century, to understand the manufacturing technologies and glass circulation in the Iberian Peninsula, and its connection with the Near East and Northern Africa. The study of vitreous material from different contexts in Mértola is being fundamental to understand the role of cities in Portuguese territories as part of my research. Furthermore, the diversity of contexts in the record and the availability and help of the team at the Museum and the Mértola Archaeological site will allow me to continue exploring the differences in the material testimonies left in different socio-economic contexts of the Portuguese Andalusian period’.