A paper about the exploitation of Guadiana river resources in the enclosure of Perdigões was recently published (and it is available here )...

Area of interaction of Perdigões. Image taken from VALERA, A.C. (no prelo), “The “exogenous” at Perdigões. Approaching interaction in th...

(Image taken from http://jelandscapes.exeter.ac.uk/regions/highlands/campo-belo-do-sul/) The brasilian Jê enclosures will be present a...

They are being presented here .

Now about the relations of those sites with funerary contexts at several scales (from cosmology and landscapes to specific funerary structur...

Available here

Fraga da Pena (Fornos de Algodres, Guarda) was discovered for Archaeology by me (and two “Isabels”) in 1991. Between that year and 1998 ...

One of the issues to be discussed today at Oporto meeting about enclosures and methodologies: the need for complete plans in order to i...

A paper that was recently published about the trajectory of ditched enclosures in western Iberia: Valera, A.C. (2015), "Social chan...

The revision that is being done to materials from the excavations of Era Arqueologia in Porto Torrão is providing new information. ...

The site of Montoito has recently been affected again by deep plouwing. Before planting the vineyard and, taking into account the resu...

About the large ditched enclosures of Salvada and Monte das Cabeceiras 2 (Beja) and the interesting questions they put by being so close...

In the sequence of the research developed about the subject in NIA-ERA, I'll be participating in a workshop at Oporto University (nex...

For those who cannot go to Évora and visit the temporary exhibition about Perdigões ditched enclosures the posters that go along with the ar...

Creating borders, opposing spaces with different meanings: the organization of space is an expression of human forms of cognition. Encl...

Perdigões: an aggregation centre in Prehistory and in the Present 15.00 – 16.00 Perdigões: a synthesis of 18 years of research of ...

  The preparation of the meeting Enclosing Worlds is going on. Paper proposals are being received and analysed. Abstracts will be progr...

After obtaining the approval and funding for a FCT project on mobility, the enclosure of Perdigões (but also others that were researche...

A new paper has been accepted for publication (it will be available soon) about a human bone used as a tool recovered at Perdigões ditc...

http://perdresearch.blogspot.pt/2016/01/0025-manipulations-of-human-bones-at.html

In 2011 Era Company made an excavation of a large area of the construction of a residue treatment facility near Vila Nova de Mil Fontes,...

The real nature and dimension of Perdigões was discovered in 1996 after a field of olive trees was converted, by the removal of the trees a...

In 2002 two sections in two ditches of Porto Torrão were excavated by Era Arqueologia (Valera, Filipe, 2004; Valera, 2013). In that area...

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...