Alentejo Guided Tours

12/03/2025

Com lindas colegas

27/08/2024

Wilder Atlantik und eine spektakuläre Küste – wunderschön ist der Westen Portugals von Sagres bis Lissabon. Tamina Kallert wandert einige Etappen auf dem 'Fischerpfad', der als einer der schönsten Küstenwanderwege Europas gilt. Im Alentejo macht sie einen Abstecher ins Hinterland nach Évora....

19/08/2024

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O melhor céu de Portugal ocorre ali, sobre a região menos densamente povoada do país. O interior do Alentejo. Porque tem 286 noites limpas por ano. E porque um grupo…

06/07/2023

Au Portugal, un éco-tourisme de luxe est en train de se développer sur la côte préservée de l'Alentejo. Mais derrière la promesse d'un tourisme en harmonie a...

23/06/2023

Já conhece o programa para o 1º dia de Feira de S. João?

Ás 22h o palco é da Gisela João! 🔥👏

23/06/2023

Já conhece o mapa da Feira de S. João 2023? 🗺️

Há muitos novidades, vai faltar? 😎

22/06/2023

1.º Festival artístico e multidisciplinar, organizado pela Associação Provisória no âmbito da Escola Provisória Para Nada

10/01/2023

UI Anthropology Colloquium:
“The Engraved Plaques of Copper Age Iberia, and the Death of Prehistory”

Katina T. Lillios

Friday, January 27, 2023
2:30pm in 27 Macbride Hall

The engraved slate plaques of Copper Age Iberia (3200-2500 BCE), with their delicately incised geometric designs and eyes that occasionally peer out from them, have enchanted prehistorians since the 19th century. Over 1800 plaques have been recovered from over 300 sites, primarily burials, throughout Southwest Iberia. The plaques participated in the social world of agro-pastoral communities that lived in fortified settlements, aggregated in ditched enclosures, and constructed monumental collective tombs for their dead. Variability in mortuary architectures, their size and visibility, and the quantity and quality of goods found suggest that Copper Age communities ranked and differentiated its members. Archaeologists have debated how social distinctions were perpetuated in Copper Age Iberia. In this lecture, I discuss new studies evaluating the genealogical hypothesis for the Classic-type plaques, which constitute the most common plaque type. Analyses indicate statistically non-random associations between these plaques’ design elements, the size of the tombs in which they are found, and their geographic distribution, suggesting that they communicated the identity and achievements of elites as well as genealogical information. In this light, the creation, display, and burial of the engraved plaques may have played an important role in legitimating and perpetuating social differences in ancient Iberia and can be considered a very early form of writing.

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