Adornos, espaço e tempo: as contas de colar em Mesas do Castelinho (Santa Clara-a-Nova, Almodôvar)

Abstract

The Iron Age and Roman era stratigraphy of Mesas do Castelinho (Almodôvar) provides reflections on the adornments of this site and the debate of differences and similarities with other sites of the South-western Iberian Peninsula. Though in reduced amounts, the raw materials, shapes and colours of the ornaments vary, with a certain primacy of the eyed-glass beads.
Mediterranean shows itself from start-to-end of the site. Marginal in the great trade circuits is a landmark in an interior that imports the articles of the peninsular coast and of more far points of the Roman Mare Nostrum.