Poster presented to the IX Iberian Congress of Archaeometry. Lisbon, 2011.

Ditch and entrances to hypogea crypts in the north wall. At Carrascal 2, near Porto Torrão complex of enclosures, a chalcolithic d...

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

The map of enclosures was updated (see the respective page). Here you have a window over the South Alentejo region, where a significant...

Confirmation of ditched enclosures aerial images has several stages. After identification on an image, it is important to go to the place ...

(By Filipa Rodrigues, frodrigues@crivarque.net ,) When I first saw the image of the Perdigões geophysics, I was digging the Porto Torr...

This is a major problem for ditched enclosures in Alentejo region. In the last few years agricultural fields are being reconverted and o...

Just discovered two days ago in Campo Maior municipality in our “satellite prospection”. In the Portuguese middle Guadiana basin pattern...

Recently,  in Beja municipality, two new ditched enclosures were  detected on Google Earth by Tiago, in the context of our project. One wa...

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...

It is a fact that a significant number of walled and ditched enclosures have plans that tend to circularity and that angles are rare. Well...

Location: Reguengos de Monsaraz municipality, Évora district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Late Neolithic (?), Chalcolithic, Bron...

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...

A paper of mine, analyzing and debating the designs of sinuous ditches in Portugal, is available here: http://www.academia.edu/548...

At Castro de Santiago (Valera, 1997, 2007) two walled enclosures were built using pre existent granitic rocks on a hill top. Each ...

Two possible ditched enclosures detected earlier in Google Earth were confirmed in the field, together with a recent find from last week (...

We have identified several tens of new ditched enclosures through Google Earth in the last few months. Last Monday more three were record...

By Margarida Figueiredo Location: Vidigueira municipality, Beja district, Alentejo, South Portugal) (X=39131.115; Y=128230.640; Z=1...

It certainly looks so. This is the latest new ditched enclosure and was once more detected in Google Earth (by Tiago), in the context o...

They started last Wednesday. The site is going to be crossed by a water supply infrastructure and a survey of the affected area is being ...

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. ...