The pollen record is one of the documents available for the knowledge of ancient landscapes and environments. The approach to these “documen...

This is an approach that hasn’t have the sufficient attention by the approaches to Iberian (and in the case of this blog, Portuguese) ditche...

That seems to be the case of the inside small ditched enclosure of Bela Vista 5. The small enclosure has inside just one pit used to bu...

This is one of the most important issues in the approaches to ditched enclosures, especially to the big ones, that present a large time...

The continuous discovery of ditched enclosures in South Portugal brings the region closer to the standards of some European regions: in numb...

Ditch A from Murteira 6 (after Porfírio et al, 2012) Location: Beja municipality, Beja district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronolog...

The enclosures of Senhora da Alegria (left) and Bela Vista 5 (right) will have their first public presentations next February, in the ann...

It is almost a Christmas present. Thanks Tiago. This is another find of a relatively large ditched enclosure (about 350 meters diam...

Here are some of the new possible prehistoric enclosures recently identified in Google Earth. These ones are from Beja district. (work of ...

South Portugal is, definitely, becoming full of ditched enclosures. Every week seems to be discovered a new one in Google Earth, as it recen...

This is the way the outside ditch of Bela Vista 5 was done. Not at once, but by a sequence of short ditches, that were overlapped and are di...

It has been a quite successful practice. Xancra, Monte do Olival 1 and Salvada were detected in Google Earth. I believe others will be in th...

... the walled enclosure of   Vila Nova de São Pedro. It is an “icon” of Iberian Recent Prehistory. Or should I say an icon of a “certa...

In the recent international meeting (that took place in Lisbon last week) dedicated to enclosures and funerary practices, I made an i...

In the context of the work being developed for EDIA (by Omniknos company and ERA assistance), Salvada was prospected today. The enclose...

In the context of the International Meeting “Prehistoric enclosures and funerary practices”, the ditched enclosure of Santa Vitória w...

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...