No centro do centro dos Perdigões: o contexto de deposição de cabeça humana da Fossa 96 (2ª metade do 3º milénio A.C.)

Abstract

We present the context recorded in Fossa 96 locatized in the centre of a ceremonial wooden structure (“Timber Circle”) at the heart of the ditched enclosure of Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz), which was reopened for the deposition of a human head decapitated in beaker times, followed by a refilling during which a series of depositions and acts of commensality were recorded. The results of bioanthropological and zooarchaeological analyses, isotopic for mobility and diets, and radiocarbon dating are presented, as well as the brief integration of this context in the ritualized practices that characterized this central area of Perdigões in the second half of the 3rd millennium BC.