Is now open the call for papers for the conference "Enclosing worlds. Comparative approaches to enclosure phenomena" to b...

Next week I will be back to Perdigões to finish the section in ditch 7. In this section the ditch is already 3 meters deep and, although...

Mobility is one of the most actual issues to research in Prehistory, in the context of a socially committed Archaeology. Here is the abst...

I have been out for a while. Perdigões excavations got my full attention for the last 5 weeks (I will be there one more week in September). ...

A nice one (or two?) exposed by a dam.

It starts next Monday. The archaeological works may be followed here .

  ENCLOSING WORLDS Comparative approaches to enclosure phenomena   12 – 14 OCTOBER, 2016, U niversity of Algarve, Faro, Portuga...

Some ditched enclosures reveal a significant investment in labor in the building of their structures. The investment in works of ...

Excavated in the beginning of this century, Mercador (Mourão, Évora) revealed a segment of a stone feature that seems to correspond to the...

Santa Vitória. The first ditched enclosure identified in Portugal. Excavated in open area. I just came back from Kiel (Germany) were I...

Here is an aerial perspective of the excavation of one of the sectors in Senhora da Alegria (excavations of Omniknos Lda). In this area ...

Today, just a few hours before giving a talk about large ditched enclosures in the Lisbon Society of Geography through a collaboration wi...

Will be one of the ditched enclosures addressed in my next conference in May 20th at Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa.

At Perdigões, in front of the gate identified in Ditch 10, by the outside, there are several pits. All of them are of small depth (no more t...

A group of large ditched enclosures in the Middle Guadiana basin, an assemblage that is emerging from old and recent research, is rising q...

It was recently presented a PhD thesis about Alacalar enclosure (Portimão, South Portugal) by Elena Morán entitled “Alcalar, organizaçã...

In 2013, in the context of an archaeological meeting in Évora, a small group of participants visited Prdigões enclosure. In this photo, ...

Structured deposition inside ditch 3 in Perdigões enclosure. Is something that it is obvious in many situations and less in others. Th...

There is no Easter without a rabbit. Here is the one from Perdigões ditched enclosure.

  Image of the excavated section of the ditch (photo by Tiago Nunes) …walled enclosure dated from the Chalcolithic a new ditched sit...

Next week the exogenous materials of Perdigões complex of enclosures and the interaction networks that they traduce will be presented in Mad...

In the context of the congress organized by Era Arqueologia in 2012, held in Gulbenkian, Lisbon, and dedicated to debate the Recent Prehisto...

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...