0021 - Ocher

Red ocher is common in funerary contexts, as powder spread over votive materials and bones. At Perdigões, it is present at Tombs 1 and 2. But this concentration in the bottom of a pot occur in a large Late Neolithic pit, in a none funerary context, but where several ideotechnic objects were also present: a decorated "horn idol", decorated schist plaques, an "almeriense" figurine, a possible mask with deer antlers, apart from several structure depositions of ceramic fragments, particularly halves of pots. Remains of ritualized practices.

(Photo copyright A.C. Valera / ERA Arqueologia)

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