0345 – Enclosures and mobility: the case of Perdigões

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enclosures, namely the large ones, are some of the best contexts to develope research on mobility, for they congregate numerous evidences of interaction and

movement of people, animals and objects.

At an

Iberian scale, Perdigões is now one of the main sites where this research is

being developed.

There is a

Portuguese Science Foundation project dedicated to this specific topic: “Mobility and interaction in South Portugal Recent Prehistory: the role of aggregation centers”.

In this project participate the research unit of ERA Arqueologia, the research

centre ICArEHB of university of Algarve and the laboratory Hércules of Évora

University.

But this

research has a wider projection, for this project is in articulated

collaboration with several others related to the same topic.

We also

integrate the project “Beyond migration and diffusion: peoples and technologies

in prehistory”, financed by the Australian Research Council, and involve Era

Arqueologia, the Australian National University, Griffith University and the

Centro Nacional de Investigatión sobre l Evolución Humana. The goal will be research

and compare mobility patterns between Prehistoric Iberia and the Pacific

Islands.

Furthermore,

we are establishing a partnership in this topic with another FCT project: “Beaker

origins: Testing the hypothesis of late Neolithic dispersals from Iberia using

both ancient and contemporary mitochondrial genomes” developed by Minho

University with the collaboration of the doctoral scholarship programme at

Huddersfield University (UK) entitled Genetic Journeys into History: The Next

Generation (running 2015–2020).

Finally, we

are engaged in other projects in phase of application, namely two on diets and mobility

of animals in Iberia and another that will join the European Atlantic facade, “6,000

years of Farmers and Food: Reconnecting Atlantic Heritage” (working title),

that will join institution from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, France,

Portugal and Spain.

The

participation of Perdigões complex of enclosures in all these projects, some of

them already with preliminary results, puts it in a unique position (in Iberian

terms) in the context of the actual focus of research in mobility in Prehistory

at an international level.

 

But this is

the result of the way the Global Program of Research of Perdigões was conceived

and is being developed.

(post taken from: http://perdresearch.blogspot.pt/)

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