It is a small one, near the border in Portalegre district. It has at least three concentric ditches (possibly four) and about 90m di...

This is a new ditched enclosure recently found in Google (by Tiago do Pereiro) in North Alentejo. In my inventory is number 63 in Portugal....

When I saw the image of Torre do Pinto enclosure 1 for the first time I did not considered that it might be prehistoric. It is a circular e...

A paper on the ivory human figurines from the ditched enclosure of Perdigões has just been published here . These figurines came f...

The first two dates are available for Monte da Contenda. The samples were collected in a ditch section where the road cut the enclosu...

A paper was recently published on Perdigões temporality. It can be download at   http://perdresearch.blogspot.pt/ 

A - Salvada; B- Monte das Cabeceiras 2. A paper presented at the VII Meeting of Southwest Iberian Archaeology on the ditched enclosure...

Click to enlarge Satellite images in Google or other areal images are good to detect some ditched enclosures. But to get more and bett...

... through google in Beja district (again).

The proceedings of the meeting “RECENT PREHISTORY ENCLOSURES AND FUNERARY PRACTICES” (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 6 to 8 of No...

Gate SE. Excavation are revealing that gate NE has the same general plan. As a result of the Málaga team collaboration in the Resea...

At Monte da Contenda a road cut through the sequence of ditched enclosures, leaving open sections of several ditches in the embankmen...

Discovered in Google earth, the enclosure of Montoito (Évora, Portugal) was partially submitted to geophysics (done by Helmut Becker) in th...

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Location: Vidigueira municipality, Beja district, South Portugal) Chronology: Unknown Bibliographic references: Unpublished.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