The Eduardo Cunha Serrão Prize 2025, awarded by the Portuguese Association of Archaeologists (AAP), has this year been granted to Clara Lemos in the Master’s category for her dissertation entitled Agrarian Archaeology in Extremo (Arcos de Valdevez): Materiality and Documentation (17th–19th Centuries).

Clara Lemos was a Master’s student at the University of Minho and focused her research on the agrarian landscape of Extremo, developing a study that brought together archaeology, history and documentary sources, architecture, and ethnography.
The dissertation was supervised by two researchers from Lab2PT/IN2PAST, Francisco Mendes and Rebeca Blanco-Rotea.
The University of Minho has thus won this prize in the same category for the second consecutive year.

The award ceremony is scheduled to take place on June 18, 2026 at 6 pm in the auditorium of the Carmo Archaeological Museum.