This new areal image of Folha do Ouro enclosure, located in Serpa municipality, Alentejo, South Portugal, shows a magnificent enclosure. Thi...

It has just been published a paper about the deposition of human remains in ditches during Recent Prehistory in South Portugal, centered in ...

Perdigões  is the first prehistoric ditched enclosure to be classified as a National Monument in Portugal. After 21 years of continuous rese...

It was published the volume 1 of the series of monographs of Perdigões ditched enclosure. It reports only to the Neolithic phase of the s...

The enclosure of Nobre 2 was discovered in Google Earth and published by me and Tiago do Pereiro in 2013 (Valera, Pereiro, 2013). It was rec...

It doesn't stop and just gets worth. In Alentejo, archaeological sites continue to be affected by the agricultural changes, and if in so...

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Perdigões ditched enclosure has now a new blog, called Perdigões Museum, to display online to the general public some of the more exquisite ...

Next weekend (16-17 November 2018), in Coimbra, the transition between the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC in Western Iberia will be discussed...

Perdigões Research Program is now a partner of IFR (Institute for Field Research), integrating the field schools program provided by the ins...

Presentation at the X Archaeology of Southwest Iberia meeting, next November 9th in Zafra, Spain.

The results of the recent excavation of tomb 4 of Perdigões ditched enclosures will be presented next November 9th, in the Archaeology of Ib...

In next September 24 and 25 I will be presenting a synthesis of the available data on Perdigões later phases of use. It will be at a wo...

The work in Santa Vitória has been mainly cleaning. Namely the already excavated ditches, from which there is no new information to collect....

Visit to Santa Vitória in the context of the international meeting organized by ERA in 2012 (Gulbenkian, Lisbon) on "Ditched enclos...

Here is a new image of geophysics for a Portuguese Prehistoric Enclosure, just finished few days ago. A twin of Xancra, just a bit more c...

It has just been approved a new research project, promoted by the ERA team (in a partnership with the DRC-Alentejo and Municipality of Ca...

Tomorrow at the Archaeological National Museum at 11.20. The last results (while waiting for the next ones) of the project on mobility of hu...

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

Era Arqueologia is going to support research projects through geophysics.

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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. ...