At Perdigões enclosure we are now studying the several funerary structures in the context of the project “ Mobility and Interaction in Sout...

Orientation of NE gate at Camino de las Yeseras (After Liesau 2013-2104). The cosmological and astronomic bond of ditched enclosures...

Ditches do not always enclose. At May 15th it will be presented the study of a ditch that was used as an atrium to access several funer...

In excavation by ERA Arqueologia, there is a new prehistoric site in the center of Lisbon, possibly Neolithic, that shows a small irregu...

A short overview of the meeting (in Portuguese) here .

Patella candei (Lapa Mansa)  proveniente do Sepulcro 1 dos Perdigões The Portuguese large Prehistoric enclosures present many differ...

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Today, for several reasons, was a special day for Perdigões. One of them was the celebration of winter solstice (also tomorrow). So, ...

In October 18th, a new master thesis on Perdigões enclosures was presented: “Exploring Chalcolithic diet and mobility of humans and ani...

"Enclosing Worlds. Comparative approaches to enclosure phenomena", a international meeting held at Reguengos de Monsaraz (12-...

In 12 days will start the international meeting Enclosing Worlds, that will take place in Reguengos de Monsaraz, Évora, Portugal. The p...

For some time now I have been stressing the fact that some Portuguese ditched enclosures present evidences that the ditches are built by se...

Next Monday we will start the second phase of this year campaign at Perdigões ditched enclosures. As usual it is possible to follow the r...

Image taken from here Having been excavated in the eighties of the twentieth century, only a few days ago the ditched enclosure of S...

Last May we put a large post in the NE entrance of the outside enclosures of Perdigões, the one that we have been saying that was orientate...

Now tell me it wouldn’t be fun to do some geophysics in this field? I don’t believe in witches, but… 

The programme for oral presentations at the meeting Enclosing Worlds (to be held in Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal, 12-14 Octobe...

Moreiros 2 is a set of ditched and probably palisade enclosures dating from the 4 th millennium BC (but possibly also from the 3 rd )....

Case closed!

Ditched enclosures, namely the large ones, are some of the best contexts to develope research on mobility, for they congregate numero...

In the next 12 and 13 of May, in a Iberian meeting taking place at the Faculdade de Letras of Lisbon University, I will be talking about be...

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...

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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...