RT Journal Article T1 Ditch 1 from Perdigões within the traditions of Late Prehistoric monumental architecture in the middle Guadiana basin (4th-3rd millennia cal BC) A1 Márquez-Romero, José Enrique A1 Mata Vivar, Elena A1 Jiménez-Jáimez, Víctor José K1 Fortificaciones - Historia - Peninsula Ibérica AB Traditional approaches to the Late Prehistory in the middle Guadiana basin (south-western Iberia), have subsumed a variety of site types under a unifying category labelled ‘settlement site’. That included ‘walled enclosures’, ‘ditched enclosures’ and ‘pit sites’. However, they are very different in their form and features, the formation of archaeological deposits and their chronology. This suggests that more fine-tuned analyses, in which the emergence and evolution of every type of site is studied on its own, could be fruitful. In the present paper, ditch 1 from Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal) will be put in the wider context of the process of monumentalisation of the middle Guadiana landscapes in the 4th and 3rd millennia cal BC. From the perspective outlined above, we shall make a first attempt to set forth the genealogy of walled enclosures, pit sites and ditched enclosures in the region. PB Universidad de Salamanca YR 2018 FD 2018 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32746 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32746 LA spa NO Márquez-Romero, J. E., Mata-Vivar, E., & Jiménez-Jáimez, V. (2018). Ditch 1 from Perdigões within the traditions of Late Prehistoric monumental architecture in the middle Guadiana basin (4th-3rd millennia cal BC). Zephyrus, 81, 31-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14201/zephyrus2018813145 NO This research has been funded by the European Commission through the Marie Curie Actions of the 7th Framework Programme (Intra-European Fellowship), as part of the IBERENCLOGIS project (PIEF-GA-2012-326129). DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 20 ene 2026