At Senhora da Alegria the excavation in course steel reveals new structures from several Prehistoric periods, now apparently reaching the La...

Perdigões inside ditched has just been dated by C14, as well as some related structures (such as a small ditch of a possible palisade and a ...

The meeting is taking place tomorrow at the University of Coimbra. See here .

“Recent Prehistory Enclosures and Funerary Practices” Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 6 to 8 of November 2012. The questions raised by ...

This association is frequently assumed for ditched enclosures, but is rarely demonstrated. In what concerns Portuguese enclosures, we have s...

This will be a topic for a conference in the next ERA annual meeting that will take place in Lisbon in March 10th. Perdigões present a great...

A paper is in press about the ivory animal figurines at Perdigões enclosure. These are very small sculptures of several animals (ox, deer, b...

Dog skull inside ditch 3 of Perdigões. The nature and the processes of ditch fillings are central to ditched enclosures interpretation. Seve...

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

This is a map in permanent updating. From now on, it will be available in a separated page, next to the bibliography ones at the top of the ...

Location: Alandroal municipality, Évora district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Late Neolithic Bibliographic references: Calado ...

Some Portuguese enclosures present designs that have patterns that are visually striking from above and as a whole (from an aerial picture o...

Senhora da Alegria is a surprising and important site, by the combination of its location, structures and chronologies. It is located in cen...

I’m now writing the paper presented at the Rome conference, where the main issue was to compare ditched and walled enclosures in South Portu...

Cremation experiment in progress (Tõnno Jonuks & Marge Konsa, “The revival of Prehistoric burial practices: three archaeological experim...

Plan of Gonçalvinhos (Mafra, Lisbon) small ditch segment (after Sousa, A.C., 2010, O PENEDO DO LEXIM E A SEQUÊNCIA DO NEOLÍTICO FINAL E CALC...

(Click the image) A meeting for presenting results and debate perspectives of a ongoing project of research on funerary practices at Perdigõ...

Recently, at the Rome conference, Michael Kunst provided an interesting information about the research conducted by DAI at Castro de Zambuja...

Horizontal and localized depositions of stones, pottery shards and faunal remains, separated by clay deposits. At the bottom, some stone agg...

It's not from Portugal and it is not about ditched or walled enclosures, but about a famous henge. It is absolutely hilarious, but... we...

PROGRAMA GLOBAL DE INVESTIGAÇÃO ARQUEOLÓGICA DOS PERDIGÕES - INARP Perdigões enclosure (Reguengos de Monsaraz) is one of the important archa...

Alcalar partially geophysical image of a complex of gates and ditches (after Morán, 2010) Location: Portimão municipality, Faro district, Al...

A paper and two posters are being presented at the IX Congress of Iberian Archaeometry, held in Lisbon. The paper focus on the results of th...

Hundreds of pits in partial images of Xancra and Perdigões enclosures Another astonishing difference between ditched and walled enclosures i...

Beaker pottery in ditch 2 of Porto Torrão after Valera & Filipe, 2004. As commented in the previous post, beaker pottery is recorded onl...

Beaker pottery from Porto Torrão (after Valera & Filipe, 2004) One interesting issue about the Portuguese ditched enclosures is the dist...

The slide presents Portuguese walled and ditched enclosures at the same scale (the bigger walled enclosure is not Portuguese, but Spanish an...

The research of Portuguese enclosures was represented at the conference STRATEGIE INSEDIATIVE E METALLURGIA. I RAPPORTI TRA ITALIA E LA PENI...

Santa Justa(after Golçalves, 1989) Location: Alcoutim municipality, Faro district, Algarve, South Portugal) Chronology: Chalcolithic Bibliog...

Rock 6 and Chalcolithic tower above it (after Gomes, 1991) Location: Montemor-o-Novo municipality, Évora district, Alentejo, South Portugal)...

Location: Elvas municipality, Portalegre district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Late Neolithic Bibliographic references: Lago &...

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

Location: Vila Nova de Foz Côa municipality, Guarda district, North Portugal) Chronology: Chalcolithic Bibliographic references: Jorge, 1993...

Well known in Europe, wood heges seem to be missing in Iberia. But just like ditched enclosures some years ago, I believe this is just a pro...

In the following times and in the beginning of next year, Portuguese enclosures will be presented and discussed in international meetings. A...

Location: Beja municipality, Beja district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Chalcolithic Bibliographic references: Grilo, 2007 Located...

This project developed by NIA-ERA and financed by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian is reaching its final steps (it’s a two years project – 2010-...

Here is a preliminary geophysical image obtained by Helmut Becker at Monte do Olival 1 , in the context of the NIA-ERA project on archae...

The association of ditched enclosures to funerary practices and contexts is increasing. A workshop on the matter is starting to be designed....