Domesticating the land: the first agricultural communities in Portugal

Abstract

This text is the English version of the author’s book "Domesticating the Land", 1999 (Lisbon, Grad. Publ.), presented in the context of the 3rd Congress on Iberian Archaeology (Vila Real, Portugal, September 99). Since then, a wider discusssion of its contents, allowed by an English version, was thought to be important; in fact, this work corresponds to the critical revision of the synthesis of the prehistory of Portugal made by the same author ten years ago ("New History of Portugal", vol. 1, Lisbon, Ed. Presença, 1990).