Tomorrow, at the VI Archaeological Meeting of
Southwest Iberia, a paper will be presented about a radiocarbon sequence of
dates for Perdigões set of enclosures.
“Valera, A.C, Silva, A.M. & Márquez Romero, J.E., “The
temporality of Perdigões enclosures: absolute chronology of structures and
practices”.
This sequence, of 34 dates, was obtained in the course
of three projects integrated in the Global Programme of Research of Perdigões,
coordinated by the NIA-ERA: a project of NIA-ERA aiming precisely to
established the temporalities of the set of enclosures; a project of the
Department of Anthropology of Coimbra University in collaboration with NIA-ERA
dedicated to funerary practices in Perdigões; a project of the Malaga
University developed in the NE gate of the outside enclosure.
The sequence reveals an occupation of more than a
millennia, between 3360 and 2100 BC, corresponding to the Late Neolithic,
Chalcolithic and transition to the Bronze Age. It also reveals a provisory
image of progressive enlargement of the site during this time span and the
progressive diversity of funerary practices, especially during the third
millennium BC.
We will be coming back to this important chronological
sequence during the meeting taking place in next November in Lisbon on enclosures
and funerary practices.
And we hope to publish it next year.
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