Tombs and village: an uninvestigated connection
At Portela de Asnela, the landscape leaves a question.
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The municipal inventory describes mamoas in Portela de Asnela, in Rio Douro, and proposes a relationship with the village of Castelo, in Formigueiro, about a kilometer north. Proximity supports a hypothesis; it does not in itself prove that the two sets were used by the same community.
The fiche identifies structures of the anther and cyst type within the funerary assembly. It proposes a dating in the second or first millennium before Christ, supported by ceramic materials and in comparison with similar sets of the Northwest mountains.
There are therefore two distinct questions: when will these monuments have been built and what connection could they have had with the nearby village? A proposal for chronology does not automatically solve the second. The inventory presents this connection as a hypothesis, preserving space for future research.
Compare traces, distinguish hypotheses
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How to interpret a village
A village drawn on the slope →Another time, other graves
Two graves, one direction →Inhabit, store and bury
The floor also kept reserves →
Source and context
Municipality — archaeological inventory, interpretations and chronologies
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