This study focus on the analysis and interpretation of ceramic materials that come from two “midd... more This study focus on the analysis and interpretation of ceramic materials that come from two “midden” layers at the exterior of the metallurgic work area of Cabeço do Crasto de S. Romão (Seia), representing two different moments of metallurgic activity, in which we can verify a loss in quality, typological and decorative variability of the pottery from the first moment to the second, even though both samples show the same ceramic tradition of the settlement and of the Baiões/Santa Luzia cultural group. This pottery set revealed, nevertheless, the possibility of associating some types to certain functionalities and that it has a more ritual aspect to it than a domestic one. In such aspect, the “Baiões type” decorations that usually come up in exceptional contexts of various settlements inside and out of Beira Alta region, stand up presenting this pottery as being one of the elements of the “prestige package” of these communities in the process of growing complexification. The “solar/stellar” motifs, present only at this settlement and the rock-shelter of Buraco da Moura de S. Romão, allow us a possible interpretation for the installation of the settlement in connection with the remote tradition of observing the sun and stars over the outline of the Serra da Estrela. Through comparative analysis we could also verify the different inter-regional cultural contacts of this settlement, especially with the Beira Interior region, but also with more distant regions, from Andalusia to the Spanish Meseta and to the world beyond the Pyrenees.
Arqueologia em Portugal 2020 - Estado da Questão, 2020
O Castro de Nossa Senhora das Necessidades é, até à data, o único sítio arqueológico do concelho ... more O Castro de Nossa Senhora das Necessidades é, até à data, o único sítio arqueológico do concelho de Sernancelhe (distrito de Viseu) a ser discutido na bibliografia arqueológica. Referido como um castro do Bronze Final, o sítio tem vindo a ser destruído e conta apenas com recolhas superficiais que nunca foram estudadas de forma a dar a conhecer todas as suas ocupações. Assim, esta primeira análise, feita através de materiais cerâmicos, líticos e metálicos que resultam de prospecções ao cabeço, vem revelar outras cronologias para este sítio, procurando assim contribuir para a sua valorização e a compreensão da cultura material e povoamento da Beira Alta em alguns dos seus períodos pré-históricos e medievais.
DE GIBRALTAR AOS PIRENÉUS: Megalitismo, Vida e Morte na Fachada Atlântica Peninsular, 2018
The Neolithic and Calcolithic communities of Eastern Trás-os-Montes region have left us evidence ... more The Neolithic and Calcolithic communities of Eastern Trás-os-Montes region have left us evidence of a long continuity of their material culture, in which, the repeated reproduction of decorative motifs in the ceramic vessels throughout the IV and III millennia BC leads us to equate the mental mechanisms that condition said production. More than a mere artistic manifestation or aesthetic concern, these decorations are part of a style of their own, built through the repetition of conditioned gestures, which, among other possibilities, can infer a positioning of these communities towards the passage of time, distinguishing between long and short conceptions of time, each with different investments and based on continuities or changes.
This study focus on the analysis and interpretation of ceramic materials that come from two “midd... more This study focus on the analysis and interpretation of ceramic materials that come from two “midden” layers at the exterior of the metallurgic work area of Cabeço do Crasto de S. Romão (Seia), representing two different moments of metallurgic activity, in which we can verify a loss in quality, typological and decorative variability of the pottery from the first moment to the second, even though both samples show the same ceramic tradition of the settlement and of the Baiões/Santa Luzia cultural group. This pottery set revealed, nevertheless, the possibility of associating some types to certain functionalities and that it has a more ritual aspect to it than a domestic one. In such aspect, the “Baiões type” decorations that usually come up in exceptional contexts of various settlements inside and out of Beira Alta region, stand up presenting this pottery as being one of the elements of the “prestige package” of these communities in the process of growing complexification. The “solar/stellar” motifs, present only at this settlement and the rock-shelter of Buraco da Moura de S. Romão, allow us a possible interpretation for the installation of the settlement in connection with the remote tradition of observing the sun and stars over the outline of the Serra da Estrela. Through comparative analysis we could also verify the different inter-regional cultural contacts of this settlement, especially with the Beira Interior region, but also with more distant regions, from Andalusia to the Spanish Meseta and to the world beyond the Pyrenees.
Arqueologia em Portugal 2020 - Estado da Questão, 2020
O Castro de Nossa Senhora das Necessidades é, até à data, o único sítio arqueológico do concelho ... more O Castro de Nossa Senhora das Necessidades é, até à data, o único sítio arqueológico do concelho de Sernancelhe (distrito de Viseu) a ser discutido na bibliografia arqueológica. Referido como um castro do Bronze Final, o sítio tem vindo a ser destruído e conta apenas com recolhas superficiais que nunca foram estudadas de forma a dar a conhecer todas as suas ocupações. Assim, esta primeira análise, feita através de materiais cerâmicos, líticos e metálicos que resultam de prospecções ao cabeço, vem revelar outras cronologias para este sítio, procurando assim contribuir para a sua valorização e a compreensão da cultura material e povoamento da Beira Alta em alguns dos seus períodos pré-históricos e medievais.
DE GIBRALTAR AOS PIRENÉUS: Megalitismo, Vida e Morte na Fachada Atlântica Peninsular, 2018
The Neolithic and Calcolithic communities of Eastern Trás-os-Montes region have left us evidence ... more The Neolithic and Calcolithic communities of Eastern Trás-os-Montes region have left us evidence of a long continuity of their material culture, in which, the repeated reproduction of decorative motifs in the ceramic vessels throughout the IV and III millennia BC leads us to equate the mental mechanisms that condition said production. More than a mere artistic manifestation or aesthetic concern, these decorations are part of a style of their own, built through the repetition of conditioned gestures, which, among other possibilities, can infer a positioning of these communities towards the passage of time, distinguishing between long and short conceptions of time, each with different investments and based on continuities or changes.
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