Gates (or doors) are extraordinary important in any architecture or space organization. Being a building (with gates or doors), being a lan...

Castro de Santiago walled enclosure was the first site I excavated in Fornos de Algodres, from 1988 to 1996 and in 2006. As Fraga da Pena,...

These are the posters referring Fraga da Pena presented at the small museum of archaeology in Fornos de Algodres, the municipality of...

Porto Torrão ditched enclosure. Exacavation of ERA Arqueologia in 2002 (Valera & Filipe, 2004) This is an issue present in ever...

Bell Beaker from ditch 2 of Porto Torrão. This is an interesting relation to analyze. At the moment the situation is the following o...

Today this blog reaches the age of two years. And here is, to commemorate, a possible new ditch enclosure (seen in two different worked s...

Olelas plan, after Gonçalves, 1997. Location: Sintra municipality, Lisbon, Estremadura, Central Portugal. Chronology: Chalcolithic ...

Location: Mourão municipality, Évora district, Alentejo, South Portugal. Chronology: Chalcolithic Bibliographic references: Valera...

This is a detail of the magnetogram of Perdigões enclosure, focused on Sector I, located in an intermediate area of the site, with the ...

Here are some ditch sections from Portuguese enclosures. Diversity is the word. Diversity of shapes and of sizes. Even in the same site. ...

That seems to be a significant difference between walled and ditched enclosures in Portugal. Tor in the top of a hill used to buil...

To show an image of a Middle Neolithic ditch that was sampled for pollen analysis. It belongs to a phase of occupation that was dated t...

Location: Arronches municipality, Portalegre district, South Portugal) Chronology: Chalcolithic  (and Neolithic ?) Bibliographic refere...

Another "flower" ditched enclosure in Alentejo. It is spring after all.

In the last few months, in the context of the NIA’s project “Plans of ditched enclosures and Neolithic cosmologies: an approach through la...

The huge tor of Fraga da Pena used to built a double enclosure in the late third millennium BC. Here seen from the valley. The approa...

This is the north part of the enclosure of Salvada. As is clearly seen, there is a linear outside ditch and a sinuous one by the inside, ...

Location: (Mourão municipality, Évora district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age Bibliographi...

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...