O artigo aborda a ocupação do Crasto de Palheiros (Murça, Portugal) durante o 1º milénio a.C.,reavaliando as fases II (Bronze Final) e III (Idade do Ferro). Fundamentando-se principalmenteem datas de C14, análises estratigráfi cas e estudos ceramológicos, discute-se a ocupação doBronze Final neste povoado, o qual constitui o mote para reavaliar o povoamento de Trás-os--Montes “interior” no mesmo período cronoló...
Two AMS dates are published here, one on Panicum miliaceum (broomcorn millet) and another on Triticum spelta. The first confirms that Panicum cultivation at Crasto de Palheiros occurred only during the Iron Age, remaining unconfirmed its possible Late Bronze Age origins. The second provides the first direct dating of this wheat species at this archaeological site. Attention to post-depositional processes and sa...
This article focuses the occupation of Crasto de Palheiros (Murça, Portugal) during the 1st millennium BCE, reassessing phases II (Late Bronze Age) and III (Iron Age). Based primarily on radiocarbon dates, stratigraphic analyses, and ceramic studies, it discusses the Late Bronze Age occupation of this settlement, which serves as the foundation for a reevaluation of the settlement patterns in "interior" Trás-os-...
The TSF - Territories without borders project aims to enhance the value of the cultural heritage of a vast territory at the border between Murça (Portugal) and Monterrei (Spain), by carrying out archaeological interventions in key places, among which the Moors Castle of Cadaval. Th is settlement, entrenched on a spur over the Tinhela river, has been occupied since the Iron Age and still preserves impressive def...
The techno-typological characterization of the lithic industries from trenches H, Z, and N (18 m²) from the Cardina-Salto do Boi archaeological site, in the Côa River valley, combined with the study of the lithic resource management, made it possible to identify three Middle Palaeolithic occupations, dating from (1) ca. 155 ka BP to ca. 80 ka BP, (2) ca. 80 ka BP to 51 ka BP, and (3) 51 ka BP to 39 ka BP. It al...
The aim of this text is to present the preliminary results of an ongoing study of two anthropomorphic stone elements from the Alto das Madorras megalithic necropolis, in border between Murça and Alijó municipalities (Trás-os-Montes, Northern Portugal). The two stone elements are: an anthropomorphic orthostate-stelae from Dolmen 4 and a sub-rectangular granite slab from Dolmen 8, formerly referred to as an «idol...
This is an overview of the schematic rock art of the mid-lower Douro basin, covering the border region between Portugal and Spain (Trás-os-Montes and Beira Alta on the one hand, and Zamora and Salamanca on the other). An internal chronological framework is put forward for the schematic art, which takes into account the themes and their formalisms. Chronological and cultural period: from the Mesolithic to the Br...