It is an interesting relation, although difficult to
establish, that seems to be emerging in some sites.
In Moreiros 2, several rocks with cup marks were
identified the periphery of the enclosures.
Carved rocks with cup marks in the periphery of Moreiros 2 enclosure (images taken from Valera, Becker and Boaventura, (in press) "Moreiros 2 (Arronches, Portalegre). Geophysics and chronology of the internal enclosures"
At Torrão a rock also with cup marks is known near the
enclosure and in Perdigões there is a rock inside the Chalcolithic enclosure,
but outside of the Neolithic ones almost totally carved with cup marks, also
present at one of the stones of the cromlech.
Carved rock with cup marks at Perdigões.
Of course we do not know the exact chronology of the
cup marks, but in these three situations they are in the periphery of Late
Neolithic ditched enclosures. What they mean we do not know. We can only
speculate and many ideas were put forward. But maybe there is a relation
between them and the practices that were taking place inside the enclosures.
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