Alcalar's Megalithic Monuments invites you for another time travel, until Prehistory, on the 21st of April, between 10 am and 19 pm. It will be a new prehistoric recreation, as part of the commemorations of the International Day of Monuments and Sites. Admission is free.
On this date, participants will already be able to visit the “new” megalithic monument, Alcalar 9, the prehistoric tomb that was the target of rehabilitation, like the Sul Informação reported in a recent report. The rehabilitation works of this mound will be presented to the public for the first time in the afternoon of next Saturday, the 14th.
Getting to know the daily life of the prehistoric populations that lived in this area of the interior of the municipality of Portimão, 5000 years ago, is the objective of the initiative, which has workshops for hunting, pottery, weaving, tool or agricultural tool making and adornments, carving processes, food preparation and cooking, prehistoric beer brewing, transport of large monoliths (stones) and milling.
This year there will also be an engraving workshop, based on the graphic patterns of slate slabs discovered in prehistoric graves in the Alcalar area, as well as a new workshop exemplifying copper smelting processes.
Experimental archeology once again marks the offer of this initiative, with proposals that will allow visitors to participate in the preparation of food and its confection, at the stake. Meat, cockles, clams and fish are part of the menu that the most curious can taste.
Without matches or knives, the team, specialized in this type of experimentation, will make the fire and prepare food using stone tools, as if we went back 5000 years.
The visitor will also get to know the practices of cutting lithics (stones) and other materials that would be used in the manufacture of tools, axes, arrowheads, adzes and arrows, among others.
But the day in Prehistory will also feature music. At 18 pm, the Academy's Percussion Orchestra, conducted by Vasco Ramalho and formed only by young people from third countries to the European Union (African and Brazilian), will give a show, closing this intense journey of time travel.
The program for the commemorations of the International Day of Monuments and Sites has financial support from the application made by the Group of Friends of the Museum of Portimão (GAMP) to the DiVaM Program of the Regional Directorate for Culture of the Algarve and with the help of a group of volunteers who they usually collaborate with the museum team and contribute to streamlining activities.
The Day in Prehistory is organized by the Museum of Portimão and the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve, in collaboration with the Municipality of Monchique and the Parish Councils of Portimão, Alvor, Mexilhoeira Grande and GAMP.
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