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Locality: |
Alconchel. |
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Region: |
Extremadura. |
Area: |
Molino de Manzánez. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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107 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Carving zone of Cheles is located between Molino Manzanez area (Manzanez Mill) to Friegamuñoz Stream through the left bank of the river Guadiana. This area is affected by seasonal floodings of the river. Characteristic vegetation is mediterranean meadow. Traditional use of the land it's been the shepherding, the hunt and the fishing. |
Proximity: |
We arrive to the riverside where the engravings are located throught a path who runs 4 kms. from Cheles -which is the nearest locality to the rupestrian group- to the Guadiana. In the riverside we find a mill named " Molino de Manzánez" which is a common public area. About 1 km to to south far from the very mill is located this rock with engraved surface, quite close to river bank |
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Geology: |
Metamorphic slate. |
Surface: |
The surface presents cracks that cut the figures. The surface is horizontal and the color is grey, quite very washed by water.It has an orientation of 330º. |
Dimensions:
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Length 1.44 m.
Width 0.47 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The motif is composed by Three vertical lines united by the superior part. The lines finish because of a crack, and their meassures are: 11, 15 and 16 cm. long respectively. The second line continuous after the crack 30 cm. more and the third continuous 18 cm. more. To the right of them there is a circle whose diameter is 10 cm. long. In their left part it has a curved appendix that measures 11 cm. long. At the end of the line there is a spot. To the right in the inferior part is another curved appendix that measures 17'5 cm. long and 3 cm. wide. This is cut because of a fissure. All these figures have been carried out with the technique of the perecusión and they are mainly in contact shaping one complicated one.
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Figures: |
total number 1
ideomorphic composed figure (Circle, vertical lines).
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
EPIPALEOLITHIC (IX millenium b.C) // NEOLITHIC (IV-III millenia b.C.) // COPPER AGE ( II milenium b. C.)
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Notes: |
EUROPREART DB Cheles records are just a little sample in short of the hole documentation of the site. All the documentation is registered in our own DB, and you can ask for more information at the e.mail adress barbaon@terra.com. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The principal risk that run the engravings are the future inundation of the area due to the constrution of the portuguese dam of Alqueva. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Guadiana Valley carvings have had three campaigns of field work along year 2001 -5 months- for the whole documentation of the 573 rocks found in the site. All records are now in proccess of study for at least 4 months, that will come to a joint exhaustive publication with the ones recorded in portuguese river side. There are also incoming works consisting in the reproduction of a number of rocks in plastic materials for forecoming studies and real reproduction if posible in the future. |
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Record n. 141 / 807 |
No commercial use is allowed. Specific © is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution |
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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal),
CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe),
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España),
Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España),
Université de Liège (Belgique),
Gotland University College (Sverige),
University College Dublin (Eire),
Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia),
Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of
Pinerolo (Italia),
The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal),
ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
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