Central area of the complex of encosures of Monte da Conteda (magnetogram from Helmut Becker). A very complex site, with more than 20 di...

Location: Ferreira do Alentejo municipality, Beja district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Late Neolithic or Chalcolithic Bibliogr...

To celebrate the winter solstice day here are two Portuguese ditched enclosures that, some 4,5 thousand years ago, commemorated this solar ...

Dedicated to the Perdigões Research Program:  http://perdresearch.blogspot.pt/.

Location: Vidigueira municipality, Beja district, South Portugal) Chronology: Unknown Bibliographic references: Unpublished. D...

The idea has been suggested earlier by others, but was stressed again recently by Coimbra (2013): some concentric circles present in rock a...

The results of Montoito geophysics are very good and confirm entirely the presence of a ditched enclosure. Well, in fact they are at least ...

After the first campaign of geophysics at Monte da Contenda (where we discovered that the site is much bigger than previously suspected), w...

We finished yesterday this year campaign of geophysics at the ditched enclosure of Montoito, just 8 klms north of Perdigões.  Clean...

Monte da Contenda is much bigger and complex than we expected. The image suggests several enclosures with ditches and palisades, sometimes ...

Measuring Monte da Contenda  The geophysics of Monte da Contenda had just been done. A project of NIA-ERA Arqueologia, directed by me a...

Has just been updated at the map page.

At the VII Meeting of Iberian Southwest Archaeology, that will take place next week in Aroche (Spain) and Serpa (Portugal), I (together wit...

Next week, a project of NIA-ERA coordinated by me will promote a geophysical survey at Monte da Contenda, one of the sites located in Google...

Presented to the I Congress of the Portuguese Association of Archaeologists... See here

Location: Alandroal municipality, Évora district, Alentejo, South Portugal) Chronology: Late Neolithic Bibliographic references: (Calado ...

The number of ditched keeps increasing in Portugal (namely in the South). Having a good chronology of these sites is crucial for the unders...

More timber circles at Alentejo? Or just circles made of pairs of pits? Or just coincidences?

The journal Almadan has just been published. Public presentation was today. Inside there is a paper of mine making a synthesis (a disc...

I come back to Santa Vitoria virtual reconstitution. I definitely do not agree with it. There is no evidence of a bank inside the dit...

The recently discovered ditched enclosure of Monte da Contenda (Valera and Pereiro, 2013) through Google Earth, just 4,5 km from Santa Vitó...

This is what the geophysics interpretation might suggest.  General interpretation of Moreiros 2 geophysics (magnetogram from Helmut...

  Volume 9 of the journal Apontamentos de Arqueologia e Património has been published. In this volume there are seven papers related to...

A concentration of pits in a very small area was excavated at Outeiro Alto 2. The concentration was generically circular (Figure 1).  ...

  I have been suggesting that we have several evidences of wood constructions in  portuguese prehistory   that could be similar to some wood...

Causewayed enclosures are a typical site from British islands prehistory. However, a recent publication shows the presence of what we shoul...

The sections are almost excavated. The ditches sizes and fillings suggest they are palisade ditches. But the interesting thing is that it i...

Prehistoric sites with ditches are still rare in Portuguese Estremadura. So far we had notice of a small ditch in Mafra municipality ( Gonç...

Ditches are very interesting contexts for pollen analyses in Alentejo (a dry area, and therefore not very good for pollen preservation). Di...

Interpretation of ditch functions depends a great deal on what we find inside them. And what we find inside them depends a great deal on th...