Fraga da Pena is the site where the largest number of beaker pots was recorded in central-north Portugal. But the most interesting thing is the distribution of beaker shards inside the two walled enclosures: concentration of shards from several half pots in the middle of the outside enclosure; the distribution of beaker shards along the path that leads to the inside enclosure and a deposition of a complete exemplar of the few International style beakers at the end of a stone alignment in the sequence of the gate.
The general appearance of Fraga da Pena, without evidences of inside domestic structures or contexts, already suggested a particular symbolic social role for the site and for the activities that were developed there. But the spatial distribution of the beaker remains inside reinforces that discourse.
Here we have large walls (more that 3 meters wide) that enclose very small areas where no domestic remains were detected. On the contrary, exceptional material is present and dominates the archaeological assemblages. The monumental natural tor and the relations to local landscape complete the image of a special place for special practices. Beaker pottery seems to have played also an important role in those practices.
(Image taken from Valera, 2007)
Ainda não tinha tido uma visualização da distribuição dos fragmentos e das porções de recipientes campaniformes fragmentados, possivelmente "in situ", mas "inteiros" na Fraga da Pena.
ReplyDeleteAssim, consegue-se em simultâneo uma imagem do sítio e da forma como os recipientes campaniformes se encontram distribuídos. Criando a relação sítio/ artefactos, e neste caso com a paisagem envolvente. Como em outros locais. Mas, neste, em particular.
Pois. A informação está publicada desde 2007. Quanto à relação artefactos/sítios, ela é naturalmente "uma relação". Significa isto que os "sítios" não são contentores de materiais. O sítio e o que nele está presente formam um todo orgânico que não pode ser "desmembrado" se temos aspiração a entedê-lo. Coisa que vai contra a forma actualmente dominante de trabalhar os contextos arqueológicos: compartimentar sem a preocupação de olhar à ralação contextual diversas componentes do todo. O tradicional problema da relação parte todo e da falta de preparação teórica de quem trabalha em arqueologia.
ReplyDelete(respondo em português mas seria preferível que a conversa se realizasse em inglês. Por causa dos objectivos expressos aqui ao lado).
I'm sorry! I didn't understand, in the moment of writing, that english was the language of the blog! Mine apologies.
ReplyDeleteAnd in this all time, since 1997. I didn't had the understatement that the distribution was that. My lack of attention in what I was doing and reading.
Our perhaps a lack of perception of what the signification of the site and the ceramics that were being found.
And certainly the lack of comprehension of what the matter of archaeology was.
Lack of perception of the questions that were made and the possible ansers that existed.
But now, even more than before, the Fraga da Pena, has a particular "greatness". Even in archeological terms.