Com os seus respeitáveis 738,75 g, o ídolo cilíndrico gravado de Cariola (Ervidel, Aljustrel) não é o exemplar mais pesado que se conhece de entre a totalidade dos lisos e gravados. Mas é certo que, dos gravados, é um bom exemplo. Maiores, maiores, temos os da Península de Lisboa, Alapraia 3 incluída, todos não decorados. Mas do Alentejo profundo não. Até agora. As questões que se colocam logo à partida são de ...
Avant le IIIe millénaire a.n.e., les manifestations du sacré associées aux monuments funéraires sont rares dans le centre–sud du Portugal. Quelques objets trouvés pendant les fouilles dans certains villages sont parfois classés comme étant de « nature symbolique », mais dans la plupart des cas il s’agit de pièces rares ou hors contexte. Parmi les céramiques du Néolithique ancien, il y a des composantes décorati...
This article is the result of archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations carried out within the scope of the ANSOR project in the Sorraia valley (Coruche), on the left bank of the Lower Tagus. In the analysis of settlement dynamics between 5500 and 1800 a.n.e. we considered four moments: 1) The first peasant societies of the ancient Neolithic; 2) The Middle and Late Neolithic; 3) Chalcolithic; 4) The ...
Fluorite ornaments have been recorded in different sites of Europe since Upper Paleolithic. Due to its visual appearance and physical properties, some translucent or transparent mineralogies like fluorite were searched for or casually acquired by late prehistory’s human communities. After intensive research on archaeological contexts from the Iberian Peninsula with personal ornaments from 4th to 2nd millennia B...
Engraved schist plaques are one of the most original artistic manifestations in Southwestern Iberia during the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic local chrono-zones (3200–2600 cal BCE), being assumed to be the distinguishing feature of the megalithic group that develops in this region since the mid-4th millennium BCE onwards. Although their «symbolic production» (in terms of their possible meanings) is exten...
Fluorite ornaments have been recorded in different sites of Europe since Upper Paleolithic. Due to its visual appearance and physical properties, some translucent or transparent mineralogies like fluorite were searched for or casually acquired by late prehistory’s human communities. After intensive research on archaeological contexts from the Iberian Peninsula with personal ornaments from 4th to 2nd millennia B...
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