Was recorded in Senhora da Alegria and belongs to the Early Neolithic occupation dated from the third quarter of the 6th  millennium B...

Outeiro Alto 2 ditched enclosure (Brinches, Serpa, Beja). Photo by Paulo Marques; excavations by Era Arqueologia. S.A. That is wha...

This is a new large ditched enclosure located in Serpa municipality (Beja district), once again discovered in Google Earth. Well, maybe th...

The Map of Enclosures (click link above) has been updated. 10 new ditched enclosures were added to the previous map.

Ditch 8 Ditch 8 is still in excavation (it will be finished this summer). It is interesting to notice that the already excavated p...

... is the name of the new big ditched enclosure, discovered just 3,5 km from Salvada. A water supply infrastructure of EDIA is planned ac...

A new large ditched enclosure was discovered through Google Earth in Alentejo. That is not particularly amazing if we consider the las...

Location: Elvas municipality, Portalegre district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Late Neolithic (?), Chalcolithic Bibliographic r...

At the Senhora da Alegria, two small ditches define a gate. They probably date from middle Neolithic and document one of the earlier context...

I begin today a sequence (with other themes in between) of posts dedicated to enclosure’s topographies and their hermeneutic implications. ...

At Perdigões set of ditched enclosures there is an area of semicircular shape, in the Eastside, where an assemblage of tombs is located (the...

Well, I certainly hope so. And, as a way to wish everybody that follows this blog a good year full of achievements, I present an image of ou...

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...