0353 – Segments

For some

time now I have been stressing the fact that some Portuguese ditched enclosures

present evidences that the ditches are built by segments and/or are filled by

segments. In this year campaign at Perdigões another situation was recorded,

but for the first time to the early period of enclosure building in South

Portugal (around 3500 BC).

Here is a

section of Ditch 13 where a clear segmented filling can be appreciated. 

That

tell us several things:

a) we

cannot generalize to a ditch perimeter the observation done in one small

section;

b) ditches

have a complex biography of excavation, fillings, re-excavation and

re-fillings;

c) those

processes are mainly anthropic, intentional and meaningful;

 

d) as any

other complex context, the excavation of ditches requires adequate inquiries,

theoretical tools and methodological approaches.

Source portuguese enclosures