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The Megalithic tomb of Pedra Branaca, Portugal: preliminary report
Proceeding of the Prehistoric Society • 41 • Published In 1975 • Pages: 167-178
By: Veiga Ferreira, O. da, Zbyszewski, G., Leitao, M., North, C. T., Reynolds de Sousa, H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief article describes the megalithic tomb of Pedra Branca, at Montum on the west coast of Portugal. The significance of the site is that it is the first in Portugal to have yielded Beaker graves overlying earlier burials; '…prior to its discovery, no Beaker remains had ever been noted further south than Palmela, in the estuary of the Sado river, approximately 40 kilometers from Lisbon' (p. 167). In the text the authors discuss to great extent the cultural sratification and chronology of the tomb. Several illustrations at the end of the work show pottery types and examples of the engraved schist plaques found at the site.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bell Beaker
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- General Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- O. da Veiga Ferreira, G.,Zbyszewski, M. Leitao, C. T. North and H. Reynolds de Sousa
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-178)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78648803
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bell beaker culture