Fátima Matos Silva was born in 1963, in the city of S. Paulo, Brazil, and obtained Portuguese citizenship in 1997. Graduated in Historical Sciences from the Portucalense University, she obtained a Doctor’s degree from the University of Granada, in 2008, having received a scholarship from the Programa PRAXIS XXI Doctoral Program from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Since 1988, she has developed her professional activity at the Portucalense University (UPT) as a researcher and lecturer, integrating various advisory bodies of the institution. He has directed and collaborated in diversified national and international research projects, and is currently an integrated member of CITCEM – Center for Transdisciplinary Research «Culture, Space and Memory» – FCT’s R&D unit. Since 1989 and under the Protocol between the UPT and the Municipality of Paredes de Coura, he has directed archaeological excavations, bibliographic editions, environmental and heritage impact studies, organized various events, exhibitions, museum programs, among other cultural actions. She is the author of six books and, individually and in partnership, of more than sixty articles on heritage-related topics, with special emphasis on archaeological heritage. With Idioteque, she published Montes, Pedras e Gente – A ocupação proto-histórica do Vale Superior do Coura (2015), the result of more than two decades of dedicated archaeological research, Montes, Pedras e Gente presents us with a fascinating journey through the past of upper valley of the river Coura in the distant and still obscure times of Proto-History.