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...

From the later contexts in the central area of the enclosures, this beaker with a high profile and an unseen decoration (circular jagged imp...

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In the next 12 and 13 of May, in a Iberian meeting taking place at the Faculdade de Letras of Lisbon University, I will be talking about be...

Fraga da Pena (Fornos de Algodres, Guarda) was discovered for Archaeology by me (and two “Isabels”) in 1991. Between that year and 1998 ...

A group of german archaeologists and students of Archaeology (headed by Michael Kunst and guided by me) visiting the Fraga da Pena walled en...

These are the posters referring Fraga da Pena presented at the small museum of archaeology in Fornos de Algodres, the municipality of...

The huge tor of Fraga da Pena used to built a double enclosure in the late third millennium BC. Here seen from the valley. The approa...

Fraga da Pena (Fornos de Algodres) walled enclosure. In an Anthropological perspective there is no undifferentiated space in human ...

Today it will snow in Beira Alta above 400m of altitude. Fraga da Pena, located at 750m, will be like this. 4000 years ago it would...

Here is the publication of a legend, a recent one, about an archaeological site: the walled enclosure of Fraga da Pena. The idea was ex...

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 ...

Possible reconstitution of the wall of the inside enclosure of Castro de Santiago and of one of the inside huts. Usually, inside ditched enc...

As I have put it several times, heritage only exists when is socially activated and lived. Archaeology, like other sciences in general, has ...

Location: (Fornos de Algodres municipality, Guarda district, Beira Alta, Central Portugal) Chronology: Late Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age ...