

The Bell Beaker ceramics are still strongly influenced by the historic-culturalism way of looking to and reading the objects. When we started our investigation regarding the Bell Beaker occupation and spread in Serra do Montejunto (Portugal) we had as initial aim, to carry an analysis concerning the ceramic, but also an examination of the real importance and influence of this hill in the surrounding landscape. No nosso entender, as dinâmicas Campaniformes mostram-nos que as redes de contactos europeias já estariam minimamente definidas, estando expressas no conjunto estudado, onde duas das formas identificadas mostram uma clara afinidade com as regiões a Norte de Portugal (Valera, 2007), Sul de França e as Ilhas Britânicas (Kohring, 2011.

Tendo esta premissa estabelecida, e tentado de certa forma «actualizá-la», o nosso estudo tenta, em muito pela influência do contexto da investigação e pelos autores com os quais tivemos contacto, estabelecer pontes entre métodos antigos com uma inscrição teórica mais associável às maneiras contemporâneas de olhar para a Humanidade, com um maior grau de flexibilidade e mobilidade teórica, reconhecendo-se assim, à partida, uma consciência Humana que afecta os processos de estruturação no espaço e no mundo, aceitando-se um processo de relações de influências, através das quais podemos construir e testar posicionamentos e ideias sobre significados e expressões das formas, contactos entre comunidades e decorações (Valera, 2015). As cerâmicas Campaniformes são ainda fortemente influenciadas pela maneira histórico-culturalista de ver e ler os objectos. KEYWORDS: Bell Beaker, Perdigões, Ditched Enclosure, South Portugal, Late Chalcolithic.

In conclusion, it will be assumed that the bell beaker pottery is an addition to a social path already established, integrated into regional terms and with specific social roles, producing different spatial and contextual distributions, stressing that the phenomena cannot be understood as having the same specific roles in the social arena. It is also stressed the stylistic plurality in large ditched enclosures contrasting with a mono thematic tendency of the smaller sites. Perdigões will be integrated in the beaker regional context, again underlining the rarity of beaker decorated pottery in funerary contexts, contrasting with the «Horizonte de Ferradeira» and with what happens in other European regions. Beaker chronology and the spatial and contextual distribution of beaker materials in Perdigões will be discussed, underlining the absence of beaker pottery in contemporaneous funerary contexts.

The minimum number of recipients, their stylistic classification as well as the description of the main decorative patterns, will be provided. A synthesis of the available data regarding the presence of decorated Bell Beaker pottery in the ditched enclosures of Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Évora) is presented.
