Deposição de crânio de equino do Outeiro Alto 2 enclosure Depositon of equine skull of Ouetiro Alto 2 enclosure Nos Perdigões, os restos d...

  Foi recentemente publicado o magnetograma do extraordinário recinto de Trigo, datável do Neolítico Final (3200-2900 a.C.). A propósito des...

  www.paisagemancestral.pt Está, desde sexta-feira dia 21 de Março (equinócio da Primavera de 2025), uma plataforma de suporte a dois itiner...

  Hoje estendida a vários outros contextos peninsulares, a investigação sobre a contaminação humana por mercúrio devido ao uso cultural do c...

  Foto segundo / Photo after (Pedrosa, 2019) Serpa é um dos concelhos alentejanos que apresenta uma grande densidade de recintos de fossos....

  O cinábrio é um dos produtos que circulava nas redes de interacção de larga escala na segunda metade do 4º e durante o 3º milénio a.C. na ...

  Um doutoramento em curso pretende demonstrar o potencial da detecção remota de recintos de fossos com recurso a imagens multiespectrais e ...

  Imagens entre 2021 e 2024 / Images between 2021 and 2024 Andava a escavar no recinto de Santa Vitória, deslocando-me 15 km entre a habitaç...

  O sítio de São Brás 3, em Serpa, é há muito conhecido, mas só em 2022 foi confirmado como um recinto de fossos através de prospecção geofí...

  Há dois post atrás falei do recinto de Trigo e da sua geofísica. Trigo fica um pouco a norte da Serra de Portel, que divide o Alentejo cen...

  Ontem foi inaugurada uma pequena exposição sobre os recintos de fossos do concelho de Serpa, patente ao público no castelo. Orientada para...

  Identificado há alguns anos através do Google Earth, este recinto foi submetido recentemente a prospecção geofísica, revelando um complexo...

  Após dois anos de ausência, volto aqui com renovada vontade. Retomo com o último texto que publiquei sobre o assunto: “Recintos de Fossos ...

  “Essa padronização também é vista nos tamanhos dos lóbulos, que correspondem a segmentos de círculos com diâmetros de 10 metros em média. ...

Esta é uma proposta de reconstituição preliminar do Timber Circle no centro dos recintos de fossos dos Perdigões publicada na National Geogr...

This is an actualised map of Portuguese ditched enclosures (or sites with ditches) at 13_03_2022. It represents a revision of earlier displa...

 Again in Serpa municipality, where several ditched enclosures have been found, another new one was recently detected. It is clearly a three...

Magnetogram just completed and photographed on the laptop. Another lobed patterned one, and the two aligned gates are orientated at 120º, me...

A new ditched enclosure was detected just 200m north of the ditched enclosure of Xancra, in Alentejo, South Portugal. The identification was...

 It was published a paper about the results and interpretation of the geophysics done at the Folha do Ouro 1 Chalcolithic ditched enclosure,...

 With significant repercussion in the media, the recent confirmation of a timber circle in the centre of Perdigões enclosure is, in fact, a ...

 Another ditched enclosure was identified and prospected within the scope of the NIA-Era investigation of ditched enclosures enclosures in A...

The monographic study of Tomb 4 of Perdigões enclosure has just been published. It can be downloaded here:  http://www.nia-era.org/publicaco...

Era company has been excavating a section in a new Chalcolithic ditched enclosure in Alentejo (they keep coming and coming). Here, me and Ti...

Fraga da Pena. A small enclosure built against a granitic tor, in order to condition the access to a passage (truly megalithic) to the other...

This is the small marble "idol" that was collected at the surface of the 3rd millennium BC large ditched enclosure of Salvada (Bej...

Like other Chalcolithic enclosures, Perdigões has several contexts where dogs or parts of dogs were deposited. From burials, to the depos...

Magnetogram of Borralhos ditched enclosures. Published in Valera, Pererio 2020. You may download the publication here .

This video talks a bit about the strategies of social resistance and identity management that we may detect in the funerary practices at Per...

This is a proposal for the interpretation of the magnetogram of the ditched enclosure of Borralhos, South Portugal. From a paper in press at...

Abstract: To access the role of mobility in the social trajectory of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies in the South of Portu...

In this new web-page there is a lot of information about Perdigões ditched enclosure: research organisation, team, projects, structures, ...

Copper metallurgy was important at Perdigões. Raw material, crucibles, slag, hammers, artefacts and  waste occur in significant numbers. Her...

An exhibition joining some of the most fantastic Neolithic and Chalcolithic idols was organised at the MARQ (Archaeological Museum of Alican...

I thank to Gábor Szilagyi for bring to my attention these fantastic African sinuous enclosures, that present some similarities with the Pre...

In the centre of Perdigões ditched enclosure there are contexts of depositions of human cremated remains dated from the middle of the 3rd mi...

This is one more schematic anthropomorphic figurine from the context of depositions of human cremated remains in the central area of Perdigõ...

Last campaign at Perdigões we initiated a project to value the effort involved in the digging of ditches at the site. The goal is to esti...

The crazy overlaps in the central area of Perdigões ditched enclosures during all the 3rd millennium BC (and between the timber construction...

In the context of a collaboration between the NIA-ERA project on ditched enclosures and the University of Kiel, the geophysics of Monte da C...

This book brings the conferences presented in Lisbon 2017 about fragmentation and depositions in Pre and Proto Historic Portugal. It has som...

It was precisely one year ago that the book on the Neolithic phases of Perdigões enclosures was published online. During this year it was do...

Borralhos ditched enclosure was detected in Google satellite images in the context of the research developed by NIA-ERA (the research unit o...

The study of Cardim 6, a tholos belonging to the complex of ditched enclosures of Porto Torrão (Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja) is published and...

A meeting to commemorate the classification of Perdigões enclosure as National Monument will be held at Carmo Museum in Lisbon next November...

A couple of years ago I wrote a paper about the twilight of prehistoric enclosures ( see here ). It was about the end of enclosures in the...