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Today was the winter solstice. And important day in many prehistoric enclosures, namely in the ones that had their gates aligned with t...

And in the sequence of the previous post, here is the recently published paper about the exogenous materials present at Perdigões ditched en...

The exogenous large blades from Perdigões tomb 3 are finally organized, so they may be easily seen. The boxes are 40cm wide. The largest bl...

Collecting plants at the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic site of Moinho de Valadares, in Mourão municipality. They will be used for Sr 87...

Perdigões ditched enclosures present several evidences of social practices embedded in rituality and symbolism. This can be seen in the loca...

Today, Perdigões enclosure was present in a session of the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists held in Maastrich...

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The July 2017 campaign at the ditched enclosures of Perdigões has ended. It was focused in the central area of this large site, where s...

A. Areas with salt in central and eastern Iberia; B. Two possible alternative models for Alentejo salt supplying during the Chalcolithic. ...

The ditched enclosures are a relatively recent issue in Portuguese Archaeology and Portuguese Heritage. They came late, but they came in ...

During the coming summer solstice (not exactly, but in Sunday) the Era team will be observing the sun rise in the alignment of gate 1 a...

New paper on Perdigões enclosure. This one about the social role of molluscs and mollusc shells in the site. The main conclusion is that...

Depositions and fragmentation, as intentional and meaningful social practices, are common in many European prehistoric enclosures. The same...

The Perdigões Research Program completes, in 2017, twenty years of continuous activity. Directed by Era Arqueologia, a private company, t...

The excavations return to Perdigões ditched enclosure next week. The 20th campaign is about to begin. The work will be focus in the excav...

The impact in the large enclosure of Salvada, that was discussed here some posts ago, is in the front page of a national paper and has a...

Just side by side. A closer look, with some colour control, shows another smaller enclosure just next to the bigger one (that show 4 and ...

A new ditched enclosure (Monte de Corte Ribas 5) was identified in the context of a Master thesis (Silva, 2015). It presents at list 3 co...

Salvada. 2/3 afected by a deep ploughing. The partial destruction of prehistoric enclosures in Portugual continues . The large enclos...

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 )....