Montoito  Monte da Contenda In next December 11th a volume of the Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras will be publically release...

Image taken from here It was presented today, in a congress in Lisbon, a paper about a recently excavated ditch (by Neoépica company) ...

We know now that Perdigões ditched enclosures started by the middle of the 4th Millennium BC. That it has developed during the Late Neoli...

It has been recently published and is available at Academia.edu and Reserach Gate.

  Perdigões ditch 7, another one with structured depositions and human remains, is now also dated by three radiocarbon dates that pu...

The ditch at Horta do Pinheiro 6 has been dated by radiocarbono from Late Neolithic. There are now 15 ditched sites with occupations dat...

New radiocarbon dates for recently excavated features at Perdigões show that the site was already quite big in Late Neolithic and that it...

Desenho de Guida Caselas The project of Perdigões enclosure, me and Era Arqueologia will be integrating a new project on mobility finan...

Next thursday, a talk in a Master of University of Seville about "The ditched enclosures phenomena in South Portugal and the Perdigõ...

  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...