The Perdigões Archaeological Complex, recently classified as a National Monument, has been under ongoing investigation for 25 years by the Global Archaeological Research Program (INARP) coordinated by ERA Arqueologia through its R&D area (NIA – Núcleo de Investigacão Arqueológica). Within the scope of this investigation, several collaborations have been made with national and international institutions…

Within the scope of the Extraordinary Financial Support for Multiannual Research Projects in Archaeology 2021, the project currently ongoing in Perdigões (Perdigões: prime and crisis of a large ditch enclosure – APOCRI-Perd) received the maximum funding, corresponding to 10 000€. According to the criteria established for the applications, this funding will be applied to a…

To be integrated in the exhibition “Ídolos. Olhares Milenares”, on display at the National Archaeology Museum during 2021, two shaped horse phalanges that were partially covered by intense concretions were cleaned and restored at the lab of the museum. The cleaning revealed that the eyes are represented in the decoration, in addition to other iconographic…

A new study on the fauna of Perdigões has been published. With regard to the study of the faunal assemblage of Ditch 7, a diachronic approach is made to all the fauna already studied and published in Perdigões (more than 3300 remains). For the first time, consumption trends (namely among domestic and wild animals) are…

The research partnership of the Perdigões project with the National University of Australia (as part of an international project on mobility) produced new results for the contexts of cremations in the central area. Several dozen individuals analyzed, through teeth and pars petrosa (a novelty in these approaches), revealed that the vast majority have local values,…

In July 2021, the 24th excavation campaign of the Global Research Program in the Perdigões Archaeological Complex (25th if we count on the 1997 diagnostic intervention – a quarter of a century, therefore) will take place between 5 and 31 July. This year we will continue with a reduced team due to the pandemic, but…

A new PhD project, developed by Cláudia Relvado, takes Perdigões as one of the major contexts of research.

Several iconographic elements from Perdigões (sixteen pieces in total) will be on display at the exhibition “Ídolos, Olhares Milenares”, to be inaugurated at the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia.

The Perdigões project will participate in the next international meeting of “Archéologie & Gobelets” (Archaeology and Beakers), taking place on the 21st and 22nd of January 2021.

In 2021, the Perdigões Global Research Program will start a collaboration with the University of Kiel, its main theme being the question of the end of Perdigões.

The Perdigões project will be collaborating with “XSCAPE. Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artefacts, and Embodied Visual Search”, a research project on cognition and materiality.

During the 2020 campaign, a ditch containing a structured depositional set was excavated at the central area of Perdigões.

During the 2020 excavation campaign, a Timber Circle-type structure dated between 2800 – 2600 BC was identified at the center of Perdigões.

A study on a halberd deposited in the central area of Perdigões has been published in the journal “Apontamentos de Arqueologia e Património”.

The second volume of the Perdigões Monográfica series, published by NIA-ERA, is now available.

Part of a structure with features unprecedented in the Iberian Peninsula has been identified at the center of Perdigões.

Inês Ribeiro will be developing a Master’s thesis at the University of Évora on the artefactual component of Perdigões’ Ditch 3 and its behavior along the observed stratigraphic sequence.

Idols from Perdigões are part of the exhibition “Idols. Millenary sightings” that is taking place at MARQ, in Alicante.

Funded by FCT, the project dedicated to the investigation of the mobility of humans and animals in Perdigões is complete.