To promote open science and data reuse, it is necessar y to put data in open repositories to ensure its accessibility and permanence. Archaeology data repositories are particularly important, as many of these data sets result from unrepeatable activities and offer almost infinite possibilities for reuse. However, it is not enough to transfer archaeological data to repositories for dissemination and preservation. For data to be Findable, Accessible and Reusable, it is necessary to follow guidelines that ensure the use of an appropriate metadata scheme, persistent identifiers, well–defined vocabularies, procedures to normalize and improve data quality and sustainable file formats. In this work we present the methodology used to record the findings of the coin type and their contexts, as a result from the archaeological works carried out by the Archaeology Unit of the University of Minho and its availability, in open access, in the scientific repository DataRepositóriUM. We are also presenting some examples of visualization and research works carried out on these data sets that, due to their sharing in the repository, can be used not only to reproduce the research that has already been carried out, but also as a support for new research works.

Os dentes providenciam informação valiosa em bioarqueologia. A patologia dentária informa sobre dieta, hábitos, higiene e tratamentos no passado. A necrópole da Igreja de Santa Maria dos Anjos, na Fortaleza estratégica de Valença, foi escavada em 2010. Neste trabalho, as lesões dentárias de 30 indivíduos (19 adultos: sete masculinos, sete femininos, cinco alofísicos) são interpretadas preliminarmente. A frequência de cáries é moderadamente alta (47,3% dos dentes), mas as lesões cavitadas (29,4%), a perda dentária ante-mortem (PDAM) (36,3% dos alvéolos) e o índice de tártaro (IT) (0,687) são elevados. Os indivíduos femininos apresentam frequências de IT, cáries e PDAM mais elevadas que os masculinos. Os granulomas/quistos periapicais afetam 25% dos adultos (os não-adultos não são afetados). A periodontite atinge 65,4% dos dentes e os indivíduos masculinos são mais afetados que os femininos. O desgaste oclusal médio é de 3,5 (DP=1,1). Apesar da idade jovem (maioritariamente até 7 anos), os não-adultos apresentam frequências relativamente elevadas de cáries (11,0% dos dentes) e cáries cavitadas (2,6%). Os resultados sugerem consumo moderado a elevado de hidratos de carbono fermentáveis e que os indivíduos femininos teriam uma dieta diferente dos masculinos. Hábitos de higiene e tratamentos orais eram inexistentes ou raros. O uso regular dos dentescomo ferramenta era improvável. A influência da industrialização inicial na dieta de Valença foi incipiente.

The funerary/cult archeological nucleus of Rua do Raio (Braga, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula) was discovered between 2007 and 2009, under the excavation works of a necropolis of Bracara Augusta. This building exhibits a set of particularities that confirms its archeological importance. It is a construction dating from the middle of the 1st century AD, subject to two reforms, one in the second half of the 1st century AD and another in the 2nd century AD, with a trapezoidal shape and comprising ten rectangular tanks rendered with opus signinum mortars. It shows a unique architectural configuration in the city, as well as in the Portuguese territory, and the space is under musealization, together with a set of graves identified in the same archeological intervention. The present investigation contextualizes the funerary and religious architecture of the city. Its description is presented, highlighting its relevance, and an interpretative possibility is formulated.