Transition is always a moment celebrated by cultures (and not just human cultures). Transition between life and death, between childh...

Late central towers at Porto das Carretas (left); stone huts at Mercador (up right); late central stone hut at Monte do Tosco 1 (down r...

Plans of S. Pedro (Mataloto, 2010) and Porto das Carretas (Soares e Silva, 2010). References in the page of W.E. Bibliography. I re...

I have just been contacted by a colleague from Ukraine. The reason was the similarity between some ditched enclosures.  That the approa...

After the session organized by NIA-ERA in 2006 in the UISPP congress in Lisbon, where the “Idea of Enclosure” was debated, after the in...

Salvada is one of the Portuguese big ditched enclosures. Well, by present standards of Iberian Enclosures, we should say it is a middle siz...

Next November, and by invitation, I will be lecturing in the University of Kiel, Germany, in a biweekly master dedicated to historical l...

This is a projection of the drawing of the gate detected in ditch10 at Perdigões. It is a large gate (about 7 meters wide) and it is lo...

... finding regarding the figurines from Perdigões enclosure here .

I’ve been away from this space for several weeks, mainly because I was in excavations in the ditched enclosure of Perdigões. It is now ...

Next Monday the 2014 campaign of excavations (the 15 th of the research program) will start at Perdigões enclosure. You will be able to fo...

Radiocarbon dates for walled enclosures in Alentejo For some time the origin of walled enclosures in Alentejo was thought to have occ...

Prehistoric ditch in Avebury (UK) Evaluating the effort of digging ditches and of building ditched enclosures is not just a question o...

At Perdigões two methods of geophysics were tested. First georadar. Slower and needing a considerable cleaned soil (for the radar runs a fe...

At Perdigões we have recorded 12 ditches. Seven of them were already surveyed in a section. Of course that we do not know if the dimensio...

Outeiro Alto 2 is a small ditched enclosure. It has just one ditch with a perimeter of 101m. If the size of the ditch is regular (as the...

According to available data, the building of ditched enclosures in Portugal ended in the last centuries of the 3rd millennium BC. Some show...

Plan of Torrão ditched enclosure, associated to a cromelec just in the South limit of the ditch and to a megalithic grave in a SW small...

At the pit grave inside the inner enclosure of Bela Vista 5 there was a Palmela arrow head that was part of the funerary assemblage. That a...

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...