Era company has been excavating a section in a new Chalcolithic ditched enclosure in Alentejo (they keep coming and coming). Here, me and Ti...

Fraga da Pena. A small enclosure built against a granitic tor, in order to condition the access to a passage (truly megalithic) to the other...

This is the small marble "idol" that was collected at the surface of the 3rd millennium BC large ditched enclosure of Salvada (Bej...

Like other Chalcolithic enclosures, Perdigões has several contexts where dogs or parts of dogs were deposited. From burials, to the depos...

Magnetogram of Borralhos ditched enclosures. Published in Valera, Pererio 2020. You may download the publication here .

This video talks a bit about the strategies of social resistance and identity management that we may detect in the funerary practices at Per...

This is a proposal for the interpretation of the magnetogram of the ditched enclosure of Borralhos, South Portugal. From a paper in press at...

Abstract: To access the role of mobility in the social trajectory of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic societies in the South of Portu...

In this new web-page there is a lot of information about Perdigões ditched enclosure: research organisation, team, projects, structures, ...

Copper metallurgy was important at Perdigões. Raw material, crucibles, slag, hammers, artefacts and  waste occur in significant numbers. Her...

An exhibition joining some of the most fantastic Neolithic and Chalcolithic idols was organised at the MARQ (Archaeological Museum of Alican...

I thank to Gábor Szilagyi for bring to my attention these fantastic African sinuous enclosures, that present some similarities with the Pre...

In the centre of Perdigões ditched enclosure there are contexts of depositions of human cremated remains dated from the middle of the 3rd mi...

This is one more schematic anthropomorphic figurine from the context of depositions of human cremated remains in the central area of Perdigõ...

Last campaign at Perdigões we initiated a project to value the effort involved in the digging of ditches at the site. The goal is to esti...

The crazy overlaps in the central area of Perdigões ditched enclosures during all the 3rd millennium BC (and between the timber construction...

In the context of a collaboration between the NIA-ERA project on ditched enclosures and the University of Kiel, the geophysics of Monte da C...

This book brings the conferences presented in Lisbon 2017 about fragmentation and depositions in Pre and Proto Historic Portugal. It has som...

It was precisely one year ago that the book on the Neolithic phases of Perdigões enclosures was published online. During this year it was do...

Borralhos ditched enclosure was detected in Google satellite images in the context of the research developed by NIA-ERA (the research unit o...

The study of Cardim 6, a tholos belonging to the complex of ditched enclosures of Porto Torrão (Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja) is published and...

A meeting to commemorate the classification of Perdigões enclosure as National Monument will be held at Carmo Museum in Lisbon next November...

A couple of years ago I wrote a paper about the twilight of prehistoric enclosures ( see here ). It was about the end of enclosures in the...

Entering the inner ditched enclosure of Santa Vitória. Flight done in the end of the last campaign (2018) by Era Arqueologia.  Next Mo...

From the later contexts in the central area of the enclosures, this beaker with a high profile and an unseen decoration (circular jagged imp...

Perdigões central enclosure (timber circle). Unique in Iberia, this structure recently identified reinforces the importance of this National...

The overlapping of two different images allowed the identification of several sections of ditches in the large archaeological complex of ...

Is now in course the 2019 campaign of excavations at Perdigões enclosures. You may follow the news here .

Next week, in Serpa (Alentejo, South Portugal), I will be speaking about the actual situation of Portuguese Ditched Enclosure in the regi...

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...