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Review of Archaeological Research in Angola

This article examines the historical processes that shaped the development of archaeological practice in Angola during the Portuguese colonial period and the aftermath of political independence. Using published works, unpublished reports, and photographic records, we examine the research themes, actors, scholars, and institutions that influenced archaeological research in the country. We also used documents and...

Irisalva Moita and the Megalithism of Beira Alta : Some reflections, half a cen...

Foundry in the Late Bronze Age Baiões/Santa Luzia Cultural Group : some reflect...

During the last quarter of a century, progress on the understanding of metallurgical practices of the Baiões / Santa Luzia cultural group of Central Portugal produced results that allowed us to better understand and characterize a fundamental cultural group of the Iberian Late Bronze Age (LBA). However, the study of the foundry moulds lacks a convenient interpretive synthesis. The discovery of a new exemplar of...

O Processo de Neolitização na Plataforma do Mondego : os dados do Sector C do O...

O Outeiro dos Castelos de Beijós (COCB) é um sítio bem conhecido pela sua ocupação do BF (Senna-Martinez, 1993, 1994, 1995/1996a, 2000a e 2000b; Senna-Martinez e Ventura, 2008a; Senna-Martinez e Pedro, Eds. 2000). Contudo, uma outra utilização antrópica deste espaço, no NA, encontrava-se, ainda, sem divulgação adequada. Tal sucede apesar de parte das colecções se encontrarem expostas no Museu Municipal de Carre...

Metais: questões de procução, circulação e consumo nas antigas sociedades campo...

A Estremadura Portuguesa (ou Atlântica), sendo um espaço regional muito pobre em recursos metálicos, não deixa de ter larga representação arqueográfica, no que respeita a sítios e materiais, entre o Calcolítico e toda a Idade do Bronze. De facto, este espaço regional, conquanto rico em ouro, não possui recursos, nem em cobre nem em estanho, que possam ter alimentado uma metalurgia, primeiro do cobre e, depois, ...

O estuário do Tejo das origens à contemporaneidade: o rio e as gentes

Há cerca de 2,5 milhões de anos (MA), a paisagem do oeste peninsular era muito diversa da atual. Num ambiente de clima quente e húmido, as paisagens litorais eram marcadas por planuras onde os cursos de água eram entrançados, com muitos canais que comunicavam com o mar por múltiplas fozes. Assim seria também a paisagem na área das penínsulas de Lisboa e de Setúbal. No litoral ocidental da Península de Setúbal, ...

Ideotechnical representations in the megalithism of Mondego's platform: the cas...

The four excavation campaigns (2015-2018) carried out in the “ Orca da Lapa do Lobo” (County of Nelas, District of Viseu) revealed a situation, unique in the regional context in which it operates, of a tumular structure functioning, in fact, as an “ancestors sanctuary”. The symbolic practices associated with the various regional groups of Iberian Peninsula Megalithism have been receiving increasing attention, i...

De Gibraltar aos Pirenéus: Megalitismo, Vida e Morte na Fachada Atlântica Penin...

Parasitic frequentation or cultural continuity? The re-use of megalithic monume...

Reuse of the big dolmens, with long and well developed corridors, during the First Bronze Age (Early / Middle Bronze Age – EBA/MBA) has been, for some time, a well known situation in different areas of Portugal, namely in the Mondego’s Platform. Regionally, this type of monuments were usually built in the Late Neolithic and their first use seems to terminate with that period’s end, exceptionally reaching the re...

A Shrine in the Neolithic? Orca da Lapa do Lobo, Nelas (c. 5000-3000 BC)

The Orca of Lapa do Lobo is already mentioned in a medieval document (1303), as defining one of the limits of the then “Canas de Senhorim” county. In 1905 Leite de Vasconcelos mentions it as a megalithic monument in the place of Lapa of Lobo, near the geodesic landmark of “Orca” and that would have been destroyed by the construction of the current EN-234 (Vasconcelos, 1905: p.313). As early as 1966, Irisalva Mo...