Megalitismo Funerário Alentejano

Radiocarbon Chronology of Dolmens in the Iberian Southwest: Architectural Sequence and Temporality in the El Pozuelo Megalithic Complex (Huelva, Spain)

“…The medium-sized antas and the large ones with a polygonal chamber and long passage continued to be built and used for sustained funerary activity in the first half of the third millennium cal BC, as indicated by the dates at Santa Margarida 3 (Gonçalves 2003a), Serrinha (Rocha and Morgado 2020), Coureleiros 4 (Oliveira 1997b), Pardais 3 (Valera and Pereiro 2022), Horta (Oliveira 2006), Estanque (Rocha 2005; Rocha and Duarte 2009) and Pedra Branca (Soares 2010) in Alentejo and at several dolmens in the Lisbon region: Trigache 2, Casal do Penedo, Carcavelos, Estria, Pedra dos Mouros, Casainhos and Pedras da Granja (Boaventura 2009). In Spain, analogous chronologies have been recorded at the dolmen of Viera (Ferrer Palma et al 1997; Aranda Jiménez et al 2013) and Tesorillo de la Llaná (Fernández Ruiz and Márquez Romero 2008; Márquez Romero et al 2009).…”

“…These were mostly obtained for representative Early Bronze Age individual burials or deposits, such as Santa Margarida 3 (Gonçalves 2003a), Nª Sra. Conceiçao dos Olivais (Rocha and Duarte 2009), Cabeçuda 1 (Oliveira 1997a) and Tapado do Castelo (Rocha 2021). The funerary reuse of passage graves continued during the period, as Middle Bronze Age individual burials have been dated to between 1700–1400 cal BC at the sites of Barrocal das Freiras 3 (Rocha and Duarte 2009), Currais do Galhordas (Monteiro Rodrigues and Oliveira 2018), Tesorillo de la Llaná (Fernández Ruiz and Márquez Romero 2008; Márquez Romero et al 2009) and Castelhanas (Rocha 2020).…”

“…The other two intervals refer to different reuses in the Late Bronze Age, as at Zambujeiro 4, ca. 1420–1130 cal BC (Rocha and Duarte 2009), or Cerro de la Corona, ca. 2140–1510 cal BC (Recio Ruiz et al 1998), and in the Early Iron Age, in the case of Lagunita I, ca.…”