A first sketch of Salvada based on Google images and aero photos.

  In this older aerial picture of the new site we can see very well the eastern side of the enclosure, namely the sinuous lobules of th...

Just discovered, while preparing a field prospection. The Impact Study refers prehistoric material at the surface. Google reveals the res...

Here is a small enclosure detected in the highest platform of Senhora da Alegria set of enclosures. In terms of stratrigraphy, i...

It might be a new one. It really looks like a ditch, slightly sinuous, from a Prehistoric enclosure. But only a section was defined. ...

  18 days to go... Alasdair Whittle (Cardiff University, Wales, UK) Single or multiple?: exploring narratives for the developm...

With free download here . Helmut Becker e António Carlos Valera LUZ 20 (MOURÃO, ÉVORA): RESULTADOS PRELIMINARES DA PROSPEÇÃO GEO...

This is a question that should be asked more often. There are too many enclosures excavated and neglected, with their structures exposed to ...

Tomorrow, at the VI Archaeological Meeting of Southwest Iberia, a paper will be presented about a radiocarbon sequence of dates for Per...

Here is the image of the magnetogram of the ditched and palisade enclosure of Monte do Olival 1 with Helmut Becker’s interpretation of th...

Sections of the outside ditch at Bela Vista 5:a previous layer was excavated in the centre and after refilled with other deposits. ...

This is an important issue for ditched enclosures understanding that hasn’t been researched as it deserves in Iberia. Here is a situation fr...

In the paper quoted in the last post I draw attention to the relation of the decorated Bell Beaker pottery contexts and the geology of South...

Bell Beakers are not common in Portuguese ditched enclosures. Well, in the small ones. There, they are virtually unknown. Even in thos...

It was a project developed by Era Arqueologia, and the geophysics was, of course, done by Helmut Becker with the results he usually pro...

Is the second situation in Perdigões, separated from the first one by more the 500 hundred years: the depositions of idols in the bottom of ...

Location: Beja municipality, Beja district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Late Chalcolitic /Early Bronze Age Bibliographic ...

The walled enclosure of Monte da Tumba (Torrão, Alentejo) is a good example of an intermediate abandonment in a site that originally (Sil...

The importance of good geophysics is evident. It can provide a global image of a site (that we can only have by traditional archaeological ...

Click to enlarge Walled enclosures (red squares) Ditched enclosures (yellow circles) Walled and ditches enclosures (blue stars) ...

Image of the wall structures on Fonte Quente (taken from Batata & Borges, 2011) Location: Tomar municipality, Santarém district...