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Skyphos de vidro, do séc. II d.C, proveniente da necrópole romana da Rua da Lavoura em Beja. Tra... more Skyphos de vidro, do séc. II d.C, proveniente da necrópole romana da Rua da Lavoura em Beja.
Trabalhos arqueológicos realizados pela empresa Palimpsesto.
Edição vídeo: Raul Losada.
Produção: Portugal Romano.

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Papers by Miguel Serra

Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2024

This paper presents and discusses the main results of the recent magnetic geophysical prospection... more This paper presents and discusses the main results of the recent magnetic geophysical prospection and drone-LiDAR survey carried out at Castro dos Ratinhos, in Moura, located in the middle Guadiana valley. This fortified settlement, whose occupation extends from the Late Bronze Age (12th to 9th centuries BC) to the Early Iron Age (late 9th to mid 7th century BC), is already relatively well known from an archaeological point of view. However, the new non-invasive work carried out has enabled additional data to be obtained that enriches archaeological knowledge of the site, revealing new details about its structure and spatial organisation, and contributing to a deeper understanding of this fortified settlement.

Ficheiro Epigráfico , 2024

O Arqueólogo Português, 2024

An aspiration of many people from Serpa, especially those who belonged to the Popular Associative... more An aspiration of many people from Serpa, especially those who belonged to the Popular Associative Movement, strongly promoted after the April Revolution, the Municipal Museum of Archaeology of Serpa took shape with its opening to the public in 1984, with domicile in the spaces of the castle, inheriting desires that until then had been centered in the Archaeology Section of the Center for Popular Culture of Serpa and gathering collections scattered across various locations.
The need to give this equipment a new museological concept, led the
municipality, together with several partners, to deeply renovate the equipment, collections, and exhibition speeches, which would be publicly presented in March 2016 with the opening of the new Municipal Museum of Archaeology of Serpa.
The profound change led to the need to create new memories and empathies between the local community and a museum deeply connected with its people, achieved through a series of involvement and proximity initiatives and launching expectations of future creation in a more comprehensive form of relationship with the territory.

Ficheiro Epigráfico , 2024

Lacant - Revista de História, Arqueologia e Património, 2024

A realização de trabalhos arqueológicos de salvaguarda na Anta do Zambujal (Selmes, Vidigueira), ... more A realização de trabalhos arqueológicos de salvaguarda na Anta do Zambujal (Selmes, Vidigueira), da responsabilidade d`O Legado da Terra, Cooperativa de Responsabilidade Limitada, serviu de motivação
para a elaboração de uma proposta de síntese sobre o Megalitismo no Baixo Alentejo, nomeadamente nos concelhos de Alvito, Cuba, Vidigueira, Serpa e Moura, com o objetivo de enquadrar os resultados aí obtidos.
A inexistência de uma síntese regional devidamente atualizada condicionou esses objetivos e reforçou a necessidade de elaboração de trabalhos de caraterização do Megalitismo nesta região, através de análise bibliográfica, levantamento da situação de referência e do estado atual dos monumentos em causa, criando uma base de dados indispensável para projetos futuros.
Os recentes trabalhos de atualização da informação enquadrados no âmbito do Processo de Classificação do Megalitismo Alentejano, desenvolvidos em estreita articulação entre os técnicos da extinta Direção Regional de Cultura do Alentejo, atual Unidade de Cultura da Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Alentejo e os municípios abrangidos, permitiram um novo impulso sobre a temática do Megalitismo, constituindo uma oportunidade para o desenvolvimento da sistematização dos dados para o concelho de Moura, que apresentamos no presente trabalho.

Ficheiro Epigráfico , 2024

Dá-se conhecimento de uma placa funerária romana inédita, que tem de especial o facto de document... more Dá-se conhecimento de uma placa funerária romana inédita, que tem de especial o facto de documentar, pela primeira vez, a menção do antropónimo latino Ductor.

Cultura de frontera, memoria y patrimonio rural. De la Raya Hispano/Portuguesa y otras fronteras, 2023

Aracena, Aroche, Serpa y Moura están desarrollando un proyecto de Turismo Cultural Fronterizo, de... more Aracena, Aroche, Serpa y Moura están desarrollando un proyecto de Turismo Cultural Fronterizo, denominado del Territorio Hospitalario, materializado en la Ruta y el Festival de Territorio Hospitalario. Las relaciones en la zona fronteriza han sido constantes a lo largo de los siglos, pero se necesitaban argumentos para trazar un hilo de unión entre los territorios a ambos lados de da Raya. El nexo ha sido las circunstancias históricas comunes durante la época medieval.

Al Madan Online, 2024

Between 2019 and 2021, the Outeiro do Circo Archaeological Project (Beja) developed excavation wo... more Between 2019 and 2021, the Outeiro do Circo Archaeological Project (Beja) developed excavation works centred on a stretch of the wall that surrounds this vast Late Bronze Settlement, which has been the object of di' erent research projects since 2008.
is article presents a summary of the 2021 campaign, the last one of this project, highlighting the main results obtained in the wall area and the dissemination activities carried out

Lacant - Revista de História, Arqueologia e Património , 2023

Atas do II Colóquio de Arqueologia e História do Concelho de Penamacor, 2023

During the Southwest Bronze Age (2000-1200 BC) emerges, in the Southern territories, a discrete a... more During the Southwest Bronze Age (2000-1200 BC) emerges, in the Southern territories, a discrete and dispersed settlement with scarce evidence of domestic sites, opposed to greater architectural investment in the construction of cist necropolises with varied morphologies.
The countless archaeological works in the last 15 years, especially in Baixo Alentejo, allowed us to glimpse a more complex reality with the appearance of hundreds of pit settlements and new funerary architectures such as hypogea.
But it is above all in association, directly or indirectly, with the cist necropolises that the so-called Alentejo-type stelae manifest themselves, where the element that allows us to make some considerations about the connections between this southern territory and the region of Beira Interior, the anchor-shape object, is clearly evident. It is the main component of the iconography of the Southwest Bronze Age stelae, together with swords, halberds, axes, among others, but for which the corresponding archaeological parallel has not yet been found.
Its appearance in a territory so far from the center of its expression (Baixo Alentejo and Algarve), as identified in the statue-menhir of Corgas (Donas, Fundão), leads us to a discussion about the type of cultural relations between these distant territories and the reasons that motivated the contacts between these distant communities during the Bronze Age.

Arqueologia em Portugal / 2023 – Estado da Questão, 2023

The Castelos (Beja) and Laço (Serpa) sites are part of a Late Bronze age settlement network, made... more The Castelos (Beja) and Laço (Serpa) sites are part of a Late Bronze age settlement network, made up of various fortified settlements on the banks of the Guadiana River and other types of settlements in the surrounding area.
Their plans and areas of occupation have been poorly documented, with only the identification of a few sections of ramparts and the collection of surface materials.
The Odyssey Sensing Project (Alg-01-0247-Feder-070150 – https://odyssey.pt/), developed by Era Arqueologia, S.A. in partnership with the Universities of Aveiro and Maia, has carried out high-resolution micro-topographic surveys in both sites using a drone with a LiDAR sensor.
This work allowed to define the wall plans and to review the areas of both sites, with the site of Castelos assuming a surprising extension and complexity, compared to the knowledge about other settlements in the region

Arqueologia em Portugal / 2023 – Estado da Questão, 2023

In the present study we analyze nine socketed axes from the south territory of the Tagus River, m... more In the present study we analyze nine socketed axes from the south territory of the Tagus River, mostly doublelooped types. This paper is based on a set of empirical data, together with a set of chemical analyses of some of these artefacts. These materials, unfortunately, lack a specific context, limiting their archaeological and contextual framework. However, by cross-referencing the archaeological data and the analyses carried out, we intend to value this set of materials within the framework of the dynamics of the human societies that lived south of the Tagus River during the Late Bronze Age, thus contributing to the knowledge about these societies still poorly known.

Arqueologia em Portugal / 2023 - Estado da Questão, 2023

Outeiro do Circo (Beja) is a Late Bronze Age settlement where several archaeological research pro... more Outeiro do Circo (Beja) is a Late Bronze Age settlement where several archaeological research projects have been developed since 2008. Heritage Education activities and the dissemination of the archaeological work results were carried out in close association with scientific research allowing the engagement of local communities and reaching new publics. In 2022-2023, a new scientific project started, this time based on analytical studies but also designed to reinforce the dissemination of the archaeological work results through activities for different audiences held in various locations. Several archaeological ceramics and zooarchaeological studies workshops were conceived, as well as sessions about heritage communication strategies and policies, and prehistoric pottery production workshops to be held in Beja, Coimbra and Braga. Complementary activities were also carried out such as conferences about the Bronze Age in the region of Beja and the development of Heritage Education activities for projects implemented in African countries.

Amanhar a Terra. Arqueologia da Agricultura (Do Neolítico ao Período Medieval), 2023

In the region surrounding the Late Bronze Age settlement of Outeiro do Circo, agriculture and li... more In the region surrounding the Late Bronze Age settlement of Outeiro do Circo, agriculture and livestock have always shaped the rhythms of human activity. Currently, the landscape of the vast plain that surrounds this archaeological site is experiencing a major transformation, with the installation of intensive monocultures and the decline of the traditional cereal fields, the cork oak groves, the mediterranean forests and the riparian woods. 3,000 years ago, this territory enabled the installation of an agricultural system that allowed the consolidation of a community capable of building the complex walls that characterize Outeiro do Circo, one of the largest settlements known in Southwest Iberia during the Late Bronze Age. This paper presents the archaeological evidence collected in Outeiro do Circo related to the agricultural and hunting practices of its inhabitants during the Late Bronze Age.

Al Madan Online, Jul 29, 2023

Archaeological works were carried out near N’Djaména, capital city of the Republic of Chad, in Ce... more Archaeological works were carried out near N’Djaména, capital city of the Republic of Chad, in Central Africa, in February 2023, within an international expedition led by the National Research and Development Centre (Chad) and the African Studies Centre of the University of Porto.
Th e region under study was occupied by the Sao, a legendary people who dominated the South of Chad and the East of the Cameroon and Nigeria between the 6th century BC and the 16th century.
Th e works allowed the training of local agents and contributed to a deeper knowledge about the studied sites’ occupation stages.

Complutum, 2023

The Late Bronze Age was an important phase in European Prehistory but our understanding of its re... more The Late Bronze Age was an important phase in European Prehistory but our understanding of its regional dynamics is unequal. Relevant knowledge of the peopling and material culture of Southwestern Iberia between 1170 and 730 BCE exists, but the exploitation and management of animals remain largely uncharacterized. We generally lack the taphonomical data that could allow for an in-depth understanding of faunal assemblages' formation, with relevance for the description of depositional environments if paired with relative and absolute chronologies. We present two new absolute dates for the Outeiro do Circo Late Bronze Age and a zooarchaeological and taphonomical analysis of the total recovered faunal assemblage. Caprine, swine, and bovine primary and probably secondary products were of importance, with the hunting of red deer and wild boar being complementary. Other species such as leporids, equids, canids and several molluscs were recovered. The latter are mostly intrusive terrestrial gastropods but the scarce presence of scallops and peppery furrow shells can also relate to exchange networks. Taphonomical indicators of the butchering and consumption of animals and the secondary access by a large canid are well attested in the assemblage, as well as the culinary and nonculinary thermo-alteration of animals' bones.

Al Madan, 2023

A new perspective on the Crespa Castle (Serpa), one of the great walled settlements of the Late B... more A new perspective on the Crespa Castle (Serpa), one of the great walled settlements of the Late Bronze Age by the Guadiana River, obtained through micro-topographical survey of the area using a drone and LiDar technology.
Th e plan of the walls was defi ned in more detail, which meant revising the occupation area, now estimated at circa 24 acres. Several unknown
elements were detected, such as the entrance area and possible bastion-like defensive structures.

Al Madan Online, 2023

Resumos | Autores e Jorge Raposo (português), Luísa Pinho (inglês) e Maria Isabel dos Santos (fra... more Resumos | Autores e Jorge Raposo (português), Luísa Pinho (inglês) e Maria Isabel dos Santos (francês) Modelo gráfi co, tratamento de imagem e paginação electrónica |

Valente, M. J; Detry, C.; Costa, C. (eds), New Trends in Iberian Zooarchaeology, 2022

Excavations at the fortified settlement of Outeiro do Circo in Mombeja have uncovered a human occ... more Excavations at the fortified settlement of Outeiro do Circo in Mombeja have uncovered a human occupation dated from the final phase of the Bronze Age. The osteological faunal assemblage stands out among the findings collected during the various campaigns. This paper aims to analyse this small assemblage, of which domestic species are the main protagonists. Remains of goats, cattle, pigs, one dog and one equine were identified. As regards wild animals, the presence of red deer and hare has been recorded

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Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2024

Ficheiro Epigráfico , 2024

O Arqueólogo Português, 2024

Ficheiro Epigráfico , 2024

Lacant - Revista de História, Arqueologia e Património, 2024

Ficheiro Epigráfico , 2024

Cultura de frontera, memoria y patrimonio rural. De la Raya Hispano/Portuguesa y otras fronteras, 2023

Al Madan Online, 2024

Lacant - Revista de História, Arqueologia e Património , 2023

Atas do II Colóquio de Arqueologia e História do Concelho de Penamacor, 2023

Arqueologia em Portugal / 2023 – Estado da Questão, 2023

Arqueologia em Portugal / 2023 - Estado da Questão, 2023

Amanhar a Terra. Arqueologia da Agricultura (Do Neolítico ao Período Medieval), 2023

Al Madan Online, Jul 29, 2023

Complutum, 2023

Al Madan, 2023

Al Madan Online, 2023

Valente, M. J; Detry, C.; Costa, C. (eds), New Trends in Iberian Zooarchaeology, 2022

Journal of Mosaic Research, Nov 9, 2022

Located in the Conventus Pacensis, about 7 km southwest of the Roman Pax Julia (today: Beja), thi... more Located in the Conventus Pacensis, about 7 km southwest of the Roman Pax Julia (today: Beja), this imposing Roman villa is a reference point in the study of the Roman settlements in the south of present-day Portugal. Within this group of constructions in Pisões only the pars urbana has in large part been uncovered: the existence of the wall of a dam, an aqueduct and some peripheral constructions has already been ascertained over the years. It is here that one of the most relevant sets of mosaics with figurative, vegetal and geometric motifs for the study of Roman mosaics can be found and allow the identification of possible mosaic workshops in the current territory of Portugal. Apart from a very concise description by Fernando Nunes Ribeiro in 1972, these mosaics have not yet been studied in depth. In the scope of this work the mosaics of this villa uncovered till today-most of them unpublished-are inventoried using a methodological approach of registration, study and publication, highlighting the interrelation of the pavement and the spatial planning.

The archaeological excavations carried out by Palimpsesto Lda. at Alto de Brinches 3 and Torre V... more The archaeological excavations carried out by Palimpsesto Lda. at Alto de Brinches 3 and Torre Velha 3 (Serpa, Alentejo, Portugal) were conducted under a specific program conceived to study the archaeological impacts connected with the construction of irrigation projects associated with the Alqueva dam (EDIA SA).
The fieldwork developed in both sites had brought to light a large number of archaeological contexts belonging to different historic and prehistoric periods, standing out for its importance Bronze age pits. Among them had been identified in each site a pit containing articulated animal bones with bronze age ceramics.
At Alto de Brinches 3 the pit [664] revealed at least two different episodes of animal deposition. Firstly had been deposited a canid and subsequently a wider range of animal articulated bones, namely a pig and another canid. At Torre Velha 3, pit [2411] filling sequence document an human burial in flexed position, an human ossuary, and a canid burial.
The aim of this paper is to present these two cases, currently under investigation, where the faunal remains studies will play a central role, both in understanding the deposition conditions and the simbolic component enrolled with this pratices. At the end a brief framework of similar occurrences identified in regional and peninsular Bronze age sites is presented.
Case studies like this from Alto de Brinches 3 and Torre Velha 3 contributes to characterize the relationships between this communities and their animals, these ties presents greater dynamism and complexity than those explained by a more traditional economist's view, which sees animals linked exclusively to draught, transport and as a source of food and raw materials. The study of ritual manifestations of this kind combined with the analysis of associated artefactual assemblages plays an important role to characterize the simbolic pratices and the daily life of these Bronze age communities.

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A noticeable structure traces a wide perimeter along the Late Bronze Age site of Outeiro do Circo... more A noticeable structure traces a wide perimeter along the Late Bronze Age site of Outeiro do Circo (Beja). Previously studied in the 70’s and, more recently, through the analysis of local aerial photography this structure was interpreted as some type of settlement wall. Such studies lead to a field-project in 2008 to further question the site’s fortification system.
While excavating a trench, cutting through the wall’s slope, a strange layer of reddish, hard, earthen irregular blocks was uncovered, raising questions about its placing, forming and functionality. Why is there, on the slope, so much of this material? Was this layer hardened clay/soil or burnt ceramic? If it is burnt clay, which temperatures might it have attained? Can it be related to the phenomena of Late Bronze Age settlement Wall vitrification occurring in Europe or do the materials suggest other possible interpretations?
The collection of that reddish matter and of related soil samples and latter analysis through an integrated methodology based on Optical Microscopy, XRD (X-Ray Diffraction) and TG/DSC (Termogravimetry/ Differential Scanning Calorimetry) provides an array of useful information about their composition, similarities, differences and behavior with temperature. The comparison of data allows raising interesting possibilities for the interpretation of this structure in terms of human interaction with a specific landscape.

Durante a modernidade o porto de Lagos deteve um importante papel no contexto socioeconómico do e... more Durante a modernidade o porto de Lagos deteve um importante papel no contexto socioeconómico do eixo mediterrânico-atlântico. Ali aportavam os navios que vindos do mediterrâneo seguiam rumo ao Norte da Europa deixando diversos testemunhos materiais dos quais as porcelanas são um bom exemplo.
O conjunto exumado nas escavações do Polis de Lagos é composto por vasos da denominada série azul e branco típica da dinastia Ming, enquadráveis num período de tempo que medeia entre os finais do século XIV ou inícios do século XV e, que corresponde às primeiras transacções comerciais de porcelana via terrestre através da chamada “rota da seda” e, os inícios/meados do século XVII, coincidindo com o final da dinastia Ming (1368-1644).
O nosso conjunto corresponde, essencialmente, a fragmentos de taças e pratos de produções de meados/finais do século XVI e inícios do XVII concordando com o início das exportações de porcelana para a Europa através do comércio entre Portugal e a China. Alguns elementos apresentam marca de reinado (nianhao) ou selo imperial, marca de atelier ou marca de votos e recomendação, no fundo exterior.
Estão também presentes vasos das denominadas Kraakporselein produzidas a partir do século XVII como resposta ao aumento da procura deste tipo de baixela, particularmente por parte do mercado holandês mas que acaba por responder igualmente às necessidades e gostos ocidentais quer nas formas quer na própria decoração.

Das II Jornadas de Pré e Proto-História da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, realiz... more Das II Jornadas de Pré e Proto-História da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, realizadas a 15 de Abril de 2011, restavam a memória dos mais de cem participantes (com
esmagadora maioria de estudantes) e algumas fotografias. Agora, volta-se a elas para resgatar, em forma de letra, quase todas as comunicações então apresentadas. Juntam-se ainda outros três textos inéditos decorrentes de contributos prestados alhures, mas oportunos nesta ocasião.
Pela organização conjunta do evento responsabilizaram-se o Instituto de Arqueologia (Secção de Arqueologia) do Departamento de História, Arqueologia e Artes da Faculdade de
Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, o Centro de Estudos Arqueológicos das Universidades de Coimbra e Porto e a Palimpsesto, Estudo e Preservação do Património Cultural, Ld.ª, entidades igualmente editoras deste livro, que reúne distintos olhares e experiências de quinze autores,
jovens e séniores, no mesmo espírito das I Jornadas (2009).
O tema do Bronze do Sudoeste foi o mote para a sua realização. Pretendeu-se fomentar a discussão acerca deste conceito, concebido e sistematizado por Hermanfrid Schubart nos anos setenta do século passado, centrando a atenção em alguns trabalhos recentes produzidos no âmbito de projectos de investigação, trabalhos académicos ou intervenções de arqueologia empresarial.
Não houve então, nem agora se verifica, qualquer pretensão de reunir contributos exaustivos relativos ao tema, ou trabalhos de síntese sobre as mais tradicionais vertentes de
abordagem ao Bronze do Sudoeste, como as questões ligadas às práticas funerárias ou às estelas de “tipo alentejano”, só para mencionar algumas das mais frequentes. A debate colocaram-se, e colocam-se, temas relacionados com novos dados do Sudoeste peninsular que permitem enriquecer e problematizar o cenário traçado por Schubart e questionar ainda o próprio conceito e paradigmas da investigação produzida. Ao mesmo tempo, integram-se contributos vários sobre o Bronze Final, período pouco abordado pelo investigador alemão, por ser parcamente conhecido
à época na região.
É sabido que nos últimos anos temos assistido à proliferação de escavações arqueológicas em sítios abertos de planície com carácter habitacional (mas não só), muitos apontando cronologias (inclusive radiocarbónicas) que permitem integrá-los no Bronze Médio e Final. Os contextos ditos “domésticos” e do quotidiano, que primavam pela quase total invisibilidade quando comparadoscom as melhor conhecidas necrópoles de cistas, vão ganhando terreno, pouco a pouco. E, às cistas,
juntaram-se as fossas e hipogeus…
O rápido e contínuo desenvolvimento de muitas novidades sobre este período, cuja gestão nem sempre se afigura simples, não faz do presente momento o eleito para se traçar sínteses.
Antes reclama por condições propícias de investigação, institucionais e financeiras, indispensáveis ao aprofundamento do seu estudo na senda de novos paradigmas e num quadro moldurado pelo debate em torno do que se entendeu designar “Cultura do Bronze do Sudoeste”.

Primavera de 2014
Raquel Vilaça e Miguel Serra

17th Annual Meeting 14 - 18 September 2011 Oslo, Norway

The intentional deposition of metals is a common phenomenon in Western lberian's Chalcolithic and... more The intentional deposition of metals is a common phenomenon in Western lberian's Chalcolithic and Bronze Age: in fact, most of the metal production dated to this period, from the Portuguese territory, was found in hoards
that are usually small compared with others from different European regions.
To date, the studies of metal hoards from Portuguese territory focused mainly on typological and technological approaches, while the topographic location and the concerning contex:ts of deposition are often only
briefly described.
Deposition of metal objects seem to respond to very specific rules and not to arbitrary choices: hoards occurred in very specific environments such as rivers and wet lands in generai, easily identifiable places in the landscape
as indicated by particular morphological elements, passing areas, but even seemingly insignificant and, finally, caves or mines.
And it is precisely the last case that, despite it is not the most recurrent in the archaeological record, is rather interesting: however, despite the common acknowledgment of the metal artefacts occurrence (typologically
attributed to the Chalcolithic and to the Bronze Age) inside the mines, this topic has never been adequately explored in the archaeologicalliterature.
Usually, the presence of these objects was simply regarded as the more concrete proof of the fact that a certain mine was already known in ancient times: there has never been areai interest to define the contexts of source
of these objects or to understand the reasons and the meanings that this practice could have for the protohistoric communities.

VIII Encontro de Arqueologia do Sudoeste Peninsular, Serpa e Aroche, Oct 2014

Fig.1 Localização do Outeiro do Circo na Península Ibérica e localização das áreas intervencionad... more Fig.1 Localização do Outeiro do Circo na Península Ibérica e localização das áreas intervencionadas Bibliografia: COSTA CARAMÉ, M., GARCÍA SANJUÁN, L., MURILLO-BARROSO, M., PARRILLA GIRÁLDEZ, R. e WHEATLEY, D. (2011), Artefactos elaborados en rocas raras en los contextos funerarios del IV-II milenios CAL ANE en el sur de España: una revisión. Menga. Monográfico, 1, pp. 253-293. ENRÍQUEZ NAVASCUÉS, J e DRAKE GARCÍA, B. (2007), El campo de hoyos de la Edad del Bronce del Carrascalejo (Badajoz), Mérida. LAGO, M.; DUARTE, C.; VALERA, A.; ALBERGARIA, J.; ALMEIDA, F.; CARVALHO, A. F. (1998), Povoado dos Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz): dados preliminares dos trabalhos arqueológicos realizados em 1997, Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia, Lisboa, volume 1, nº 1, p. 45-151. ODRIOZOLA, C., LINARES CATELA, J. e HURTADO; V. (2010), Caracterización de la fuente de variscita de Pico Centeno (Encinasola, Huelva) y estudio de procedencia de cuentas de collar del Suroeste. In SAIZ CARRASCO, M. (ed.), Actas del VIII Congreso Ibérico de Arqueometría. Teruel: Seminario de Arqueología y Etnología Turolense, pp. 135-146. SILVA, C. T.; SOARES, J. (1976-77), Contribuição para o conhecimento dos povoados calcolíticos do Baixo Alentejo e Algarve. Setúbal Arqueológica, 2-3, pp. 179-272. SILVA, S. (2013), O povoado do Outeiro do Circo (Beja) no seu enquadramento regional: Contributos dos materiais cerâmicos. Dissertação de mestrado apresentada na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Coimbra. VALÉRIO, P. , SOARES, A. M., ARAÚJO, M. F., SILVA, R., PORFÍRIO, E. e SERRA, M. (2013), Estudo de metais e vestígios de produção do povoado fortificado do Bronze Final do Outeiro do Circo (Beja). I Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses. Lisboa: Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, pp. 610-615

VIII Encontro de Arqueologia do Sudoeste Peninsular, Serpa e Aroche, Oct 2014

authors: Miguel Serra, Eduardo Porfírio, Helena Reis, Diana Fernandes, Dário Antunes, Sofia Soares

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No concelho de Beja encontram-se registados perto de 1000 sítios arqueológicos! Um número consid... more No concelho de Beja encontram-se registados perto de 1000 sítios arqueológicos!
Um número considerável destes sítios apenas foi identificado nos últimos 10 a 15 anos como resultado de inúmeras intervenções arqueológicas de salvaguarda enquadradas em grandes obras públicas de que o Projecto Alqueva constitui o melhor exemplo. Antes eram os projectos de investigação que mais contribuíam para dar a conhecer a riqueza arqueológica da região.