Causewayed enclosures are a typical site from British
islands prehistory. However, a recent publication shows the presence of what we should call
causewayed enclosures in Iberia, in Northern Meseta (García García, 2013).
Image taken from García García, 2013.
Well, at Herdade do Estácio (Beja), a site being excavated by
Omniknos Company (direction of Tiago do Pereiro) a sequence of elongated pits
were recorded and they clearly remind the same general plan of a causewayed
feature. The materials collected inside the pits indicate a Late Neolithic
chronology. The layout and the chronology reminds the enclosure of Fareleira 3,
although the ditches are bigger there.
Late Neolithic causewayed feature (?) at Herdade do Estácio.
This empirical data is scarce at the moment, but starts to
suggest that, once again, we might have in Iberia elements that clearly
integrate the peninsula in phenomena of European scale.
References:
García García, M. (2013), “Las Pozas
(Casaseca de las Chanas, Zamora): dos nuevos recintos de fosos calcolíticos en
el Valle del Duero”, Trabajos de Prehistoria,
70:1, p.175-184.
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