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This text aims to approach late prehistoric walled enclosures, mainly based on research conducted within a Portuguese context and through the study of the architecture of the sites. The periodization of the sites will be presented, and the problems involved in studying temporality at the “site level” will be addressed. The multiple ways of constructing and using space will also be questioned. Finally, the use of the typological designation “walled enclosure” will be discussed bearing in mind the singularity of each site., Este texto procura abordar os recintos murados da Pré-história Recente, tendo por base os estudos efetuados em contexto português e partindo da análise da arquitetura destes sítios. Apresenta as periodizações propostas e as problemáticas inerentes à analise da temporalidade de cada sítio e procura questionar as múltiplas formas construtivas e modos de usar o espaço. Finalmente propõe-se discutir as possibilidades do tipo “recintos murados” em articulação com a singularidade de cada sítio particular.

On the northern fringes of Serra do Extremo, overlooking the valley of the river Minho, the hills of Monte Faro and Monte dos Fortes revealed an exceptional collection of prehistoric rock carvings belonging to the Iberian Atlantic Art tradition. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, A. Leite da Cunha e E. J. Silva studied here the well-known sites of Monte da Laje, Tapada do Ozão e Monte dos Fortes. Between 2013 and 2015, a new research project amplified the numbers to over one hundred carved rocks, amongst which 91 are dated to Late Prehistory. This allows us to acknowledge that this is the largest assemblage of Atlantic Art identified, so far, in Portugal. This paper, which inaugurates the dissemination of the research outcomes, reveals how the project was structured, the methodology adopted and offers a preliminary description of the archaeological sites.

Artigo bilingue, em português e inglês, Notice about the rock carvings set of Breia, in the Northwest of Portugal., This work was develloped in the scope of the project Espaços naturais, arquiteturas, arte rupestre e deposições na pré-história recente da fachada ocidental do centro-norte português: das acções aos significados – ENARDAS / Natural spaces, architecture, rock art and depositions from the Late Prehistory of the Western front of Central and Northern Portugal: from actions to meanings (reference PTDC/HIS-ARQ/112983/2009) financed by the Operational Programme “Thematic Factors of Competitiveness” (COMPETE) and by the European Regional Development Fund (Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional - FEDER)., info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Artigo bilingue, em português e inglês, Syntesis about the Neolithic Mound of Leira das Mamas, North of Portugal, This work was develloped in the scope of the project Espaços naturais, arquiteturas, arte rupestre e deposições na pré-história recente da fachada ocidental do centro-norte português: das acções aos significados – ENARDAS / Natural spaces, architecture, rock art and depositions from the Late Prehistory of the Western front of Central and Northern Portugal: from actions to meanings (reference PTDC/HIS-ARQ/112983/2009) financed by the Operational Programme “Thematic Factors of Competitiveness” (COMPETE) and by the European Regional Development Fund (Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional - FEDER)., info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Artigo bilingue, em português e inglês, Notice about the rock engravings of Senhora da Encarnação, in Vila Nova de Cerqueira (Minho Valley) in the Northwest of Portugal., This work was develloped in the scope of the project Espaços naturais, arquiteturas, arte rupestre e deposições na pré-história recente da fachada ocidental do centro-norte português: das acções aos significados – ENARDAS / Natural spaces, architecture, rock art and depositions from the Late Prehistory of the Western front of Central and Northern Portugal: from actions to meanings (reference PTDC/HIS-ARQ/112983/2009) financed by the Operational Programme “Thematic Factors of Competitiveness” (COMPETE) and by the European Regional Development Fund (Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional - FEDER)., info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Artigo bilingue, em português e inglês, Notice about the schemathic rock carving of Fieiral, in Northwestern Portugal., This work was develloped in the scope of the project Espaços naturais, arquiteturas, arte rupestre e deposições na pré-história recente da fachada ocidental do centro-norte português: das acções aos significados – ENARDAS / Natural spaces, architecture, rock art and depositions from the Late Prehistory of the Western front of Central and Northern Portugal: from actions to meanings (reference PTDC/HIS-ARQ/112983/2009) financed by the Operational Programme “Thematic Factors of Competitiveness” (COMPETE) and by the European Regional Development Fund (Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional - FEDER)., info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion