A group of german archaeologists and students of Archaeology (headed by Michael Kunst and guided by me) visiting the Fraga da Pena walled en...

It has just got out the paper on the Coelhrira 2 ditched enclosures.  Plan of the ditched enclosures of Coelheira 2. Here is the abst...

The pre applications for participating in 2015 Perdigões archaeological excavations promoted by ERA Arqueologia are open. The applicatio...

Some possible new ditched enclosures were identified in Google Earth. Sub-circular enclosure in Mourão municipality. One seems to c...

At Horta Nova 4 it was possible to excavate part of a ditch (by Era Company, for EDIA S.A.). Now, when we overlap the drawing and the (tr...

Recut section of the ditch. The excavation of the ditched enclosure of Horta Nova 4 (Alvito) continues. The evidences of recuttings a...

Today I was helping to define a recutting of the ditch sediments in a restricted area, filled with small stones, at Horta Nova 4 (e...

Middle Douro valley enclosures (taken from Delibes et al. 2014). A relatively recent publication presents a synthesis about ditched...

… found in the context of Alqueva water supply network. Here you can see how difficult it can be, sometimes, to detect a negative struc...

The new ditched enclosure, with a gate in first plan. A new ditched enclosure is being worked by Era in Alentejo. The water supply ne...

One of the theories about the social role of enclosures, namely ditched enclosures, is the importance of the building process. Since Evens t...

This is how the filling of a ditch for a palisade looks like.  A level of stones and others of clay by the interior and the dark se...

Contents The times and timings of enclosures Alasdair Whittle Enclosures &burial in Middle &Late Neolithic Britain ...

Today I was in a conference where a new project on the mythical Portuguese site of Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP) was presented. As know...

Data and problems raised by the contexts with remains of human cremations will be presented next December, 15, in Lisbon (Sociedade de Geog...

(Drwaing by Guida Casela) Next Monday I will be in Kiel (Germany) to participate in a master with a conference about portuguese ditched...

These are images of one of the two “twin” (?) enclosures of Coelheira 2 (Beja district).  The site was partially excavated by O...

It is edited the nº2 of ERA MONOGRÁFICA dedicated to the cerimonial enclosure of Bela Vista 5 (Beja, South Portugal). Free download her...

In Iberian large ditched enclosures one of the main patterns is the presence of exogenous materials that reveal that those sites were...

A paper  about the processes of filling of the Late Neolithic ditches of Perdigões enclosures  will be presented by the end of the month at...

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...