(Photo copyright António Valera, Era Arqueologia) This possible pipes made of clay are from the Late Neolithic phase of Perdigões encl...

(Photo copyright A.C. Valera / Era Arqueologia) These figurines are classified in Portuguese archaeological literature as "Al...

Many archaeological studies are dealing with the issues of fragmentation and its social roles in the context of Neolithic and Chalcolithic s...

Cup marks are very common in Alentejo's prehistory and their meanings are still a mystery. They appear isolated or in clusters in outcro...

The deer was a special animal in Recent Prehistory. Its representation in rock art, in pottery decoration or the ceremonial use of its antle...

(Photo copyright A.C. Valera / Era Arqueologia) These are two animal half mandibles. One of a Equus sp . (horse), at right, the other ...

(Photo copyright A.C. Valera / Era Arqueologia) This "horn idol" was collected at Hypogeum 1, in Perdigões, dating from t...

This structure is in the center of Perdigões enclosures.  It slightly overcomes a semicircle, presenting a large overture open to East. It h...

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. Bu...

Anthropomorphic figurines made out of phalanges are common in the Southwest Chalcolithic. Perdigões has the larger collection of these peace...

These are some of the beads made out of Trivia shells.They are part of an assemblage of more than 50 trivia beads collected at the depositio...

Cinnabar is an exogenous item at Perdigões and at the inner Alentejo region. It circulates there at least since the late Middle Neolithic (r...

A first blade (lâmina de crista) of flint. Integrating the concentrated assemblage of more than 80 large blades recorded in Tomb 3 of Perd...

This is a typical stone pot, sometimes called mortar or grail, from the Chalcolithic. 25 of them were collected so far in Perdigões, some ma...

This copper dagger, typical of Bell Beaker assemblages, was collected at the surface of Perdigões in 2010, during the geophysical surveys. I...

These two very small pots were collected in the Late Neolithic contexts of Perdigões. They are rely small, and inside only a fingers head ca...

Commemorating the winter solstice, certainly an important period at Perdigões enclosures, here is a Bell Beaker collected in the excavations...

Deer were animals with particular symbolism in Prehistory. They were depicted in rock art, in pottery decoration, were carved in small figur...

This horse phalanx was carved and polished to be transformed in a anthropomorphic figure. It was deposited with cremated human remains in Pi...

Ivory is usually abundant in Perdigões Chalcolithic tombs. Many and diversified objects were collected in the tholos type tomb 1 and tomb 2...

That is the case of the staff collected in Tomb 1 of Perdigões. Staffs are an  ideotechnic object present in the inner Alentejo megalithic t...

This is one of the most complete pots with the so called symbolic decoration from Perdigões. It was collected at the atrium of Tomb 2 and is...

There are several betils from Pit 40 of Perdigões, the one with the deposition of cremated human remains. Most of them are made of marble, a...

In Perdigões there are several bird figurines collected in funerary contexts, namely in Tombs 1 and 2. This is one of the best carved in iv...

Faces of anthropomorphic figurines made of ivory from Perdigões. Four of a minimum number of 16 figurines, associated to the human cremated ...

Decorated ivory box from Tomb 2. This is a typical decoration present in many boxes made of different (ivory, bone, limestone) materials tha...

Amber bead recovered inside a skull from Tomb 2 of Perdigões. Amber beads were also present at Tomb 1, and were made of Sicilian amber. Th...

Ivory "lunulae" from tomb 2. Published in Valera, 2010 (Photo copyright A.C.Valera/Era Arqueologia)

Pottery fragment from a chalcolithic pit in Sector I. Two heads of male deer are depicted. Published in Valera e Godinho, 2009. (Photo co...