The Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar, in Portimão, will come back to life “A Day in Prehistory”. It will take place on the 13th of May, with free entry and activities for all tastes.
During this recreation, which runs from 10:00 am to 18:00 pm, «the participants will enjoy a fun and memorable experience, getting to know the daily life of prehistoric populations», foresees the City Council of Portimão.
On this full day visitors will have at their disposal several practical and didactic workshops representing hunting, pottery, engraving, weaving, tool making, carving processes, music, food preparation and cooking, prehistoric beer making, agricultural implements and ornaments, transport of large monoliths and milling.
In addition to the guided visits to the megalithic monuments, in charge of archaeologists who excavated and investigated this archaeological site, the day will be enlivened by the presence of students from the professional courses in Theater Interpretation and Strings and Keyboards from the Grouping of Escolas da Bemposta, who will recreate sounds and everyday scenes from those millenary times.
Experimental archeology will once again mark this initiative, with a set of proposals that will allow visitors to participate in the preparation of food until its confection, with cockles, clams, fish and meat, both pork and lamb, forming part of the menu. .
Without matches and with flint knives, more than two dozen volunteers and the Portimão Museum team, already with a lot of experience in this type of recreations, will light the fire and prepare the food as it used to happen 5.000 years ago, using stone instruments.
All this diverse recreation, which has been carried out since 2006, will count on the collaboration of the Museum of Lagos, the Parish Councils of Portimão, Alvor and Mexilhoeira Grande, the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve and the Group of Friends of the Museum of Portimão.
Located a few kilometers from Portimão, an important prehistoric community settled and lived in Alcalar about 5.000 years ago, defended by walls, trenches and embankments.
Next to the dwellings, an important set of megalithic tombs was built, allowing the remains found to approximate the way of life and activities of this community and how it occupied and used the site.
This people's relationship with death is evident in the ways in which different types of tombs are constructed, from collective tombs to those specially intended for chiefs and their families.
Discovered and explored from the end of the XNUMXth century onwards, the megalithic monuments of Alcalar are classified as a National Monument, and two of these funerary structures (VII and IX) are currently open to the public, allowing direct contact with the processes and materials used in construction.
The historical recreation of the 13th of May is part of the set of initiatives promoted by the Museum of Portimão to mark the 15th anniversary, with the inauguration of the exhibition “Manuel Guerreiro, O Homem do Jazz”, open from the 20th of May to the 3rd of September and the 23rd Portimão Photographic Race, whose face-to-face modality will take place on the 20th of May.
Inaugurated on the 17th of May 2008, the Portimão Museum has fulfilled its main mission, by assuming itself as a permanent social observatory and laboratory of ideas and stories, a cultural bridge between past and future, and a decisive meeting point for the discovery, knowledge and enjoyment of the local heritage.
Additional information about “A Day in Prehistory in Alcalar” can be requested by calling 282 405 230/ 282 248 594 or by e-mail at [email protected]
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