This year, the campaign at Perdigões enclosures will start earlier, just after Easter. From April 2, and during six weeks, you may follo...

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A new paper about Perdigões has just been published. It addresses Tomb 2, a tholoi type monument, with construction dated from the first ha...

A new Master thesis was defended at the University of Algarve about the social role of Bell Beakers at Perdigões enclosures. The studied con...

Some ivory items, with focus on the decorated plaque. In the context of the project to characterize human mobility at Perdigões enclo...

Click on the image to enlarge To prepare the excavation of Tomb 4 at Perdigões Era team did some more geophysics to improve the availab...

Yesterday the Era team went back to Perdigões to do some more geophysics. This year, another tomb will be excavated in the context of th...

... of Monte de Corte Ribas ditched enclosures. In this image, we can see the three circle enclosures, and one or two smaller circles in the...

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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, ...