when man discovered agriculture, pastoralism and pottery…
…producing objects such as this weight for frames or fishing…
…impressed non-cardial decorated pottery…
…or monuments like atypical megalithic graves such as Pedra da Encavalada (VII-VI Millennium BC)…
…where it is possible to see the adaptation of a natural outcrop into a monolith with a burial and mound…
…preserving materials of the grave goods…
…another atypical funerary monument such as Colos (Neolithic-Calcolithic and Early Bronze Age)…
…preserving the materials of the grave goods in schist…
…in pottery…
…in flint…
…or even group of tumuli (mamoas) such as Souto (Final Bronze Age)…
…where they were buried inside urns with ashes and grave good…
…content in urns…
…the Epipaleolithic- Early Neolithic ovoid structures of baked earth…
…with its materialities…
…and in the Neolithic in Amoreira settlement the remains of a domestic landfill, reused for the installation of piles …
…and in the Bronze Age with walled hilltop settlements…
…and in its materiality…
…hidden under monumental materiality of successive ages
……such as the Castle-Fortress of Abrantes (XV-XIX BC)
……all the dynamics of Past materialities
The craft tradition of Abrantes reflects above all the peasant traditions of the XIX century.
Highlighting essential moments of the cycle of life and recycling of materials in a simple being
..craft materials..
An object reflects the characteristics of the values ​​of the society that created it
Objects are transmitters of social memory
The craft materials are potential means to create new forms that reflect traditional values ​​and culture transforming the forms to preserve the memory
Abrantes traditional crafts use cloths...
Wood...
textile fibres…
…and stone
Also objects linked to death, translating a past moment into contemporary time
Relevant objects are the “Palmitos”
Other typical objects of craft are “Registos”
Some crafts are used in home, to protect them and to remember the deceased