Secundary human depositions in tomb 1 of Perdigões (photo by Miguel Lago)
The Perdigões ditched enclosure has being
continuously investigated since 1997 and during the last years, several
funerary structures have been unearthed, with traces of a variety of mortuary
practices that include inhumations and cremations found in different
architectural solutions like tombs, pits or ditches. Among them is Tomb 1, a
tholos type structure discovered in the eastern side of this site where a large
amount of human remains were recovered.
The anthropological study of these remains
is now in course at the department of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra
by Lucy Evangelista that is doing a PhD with this material.
The intention with this doctoral thesis is
to, through anthropological analysis of the human remains recovered from Tomb I
and the identification of the funerary rules and attitudes present, contribute
to the better understanding of the attitudes towards death that were taking
place at Perdigões. In addition she will pursue to contextualize the
information recovered from the laboratorial study within the global information
already available, not only for the other funerary structures identified in the
site, but also in a wider regional context where other coeval collections have
been studied.
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