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This paper presents the original unpublished documentation on the identification by Carlos Ribeiro, of the first two Mesolithic shell middens in the region of Muge: Arneiro do Roquete (or Quinta da Sardinha), in the Magos creek valley, and Cabeço da Arruda, in the Muge creek valley, also known as Paul do Duque (Duke’s Marsh), on the 13 and 14 April 1863 and on the 24th of the same month, respectively. It is interesting to point out that Carlos Ribeiro did not realize the archaeological importance of the piles of shells and bones he came upon in both locations, admitting that they were the result of torrential transports. Such discoveries were framed in the geological studies developed at the time in Portugal by the two pioneers who were directly connected to them: Carlos Ribeiro and Francisco António Pereira da Costa, Director members of the Comissão Geológica de Portugal (the Portuguese Geological Commission), whose personal and institutional relations are also characterized in this paper, for being determinant in the evolution of the geological and archaeological investigations then made in the country. |
