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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
Representações filiformes de cavalos, um dos quais montado por uma figura antropomorfica. Gravura de um possivel punhal.; As figuras de armas identificáveis na zona de Vale da Casa concentram-se quase todas nas rochas 6 e 10. Punhais (dois das quais embainhados na rocha 6), dardos ou armas de arremesso, lanças, algumas de com longos cabos e outras só com as lâminas, arcos e setas, uma espada ou machete de comprida lâmina. A alguns possíveis escudos, redondos e rectangulares.
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Figures: |
total number 20
Figuras zoomórficas (equídeos), armas (punhal). Linhas
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
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Notes: |
Abstract: Vale da Casa was the first Rock art site discovered in Côa Valley. It'a an open-air site which integrates 27 engraved schist pannels, that nowadays are submerged by Pocinho dam. These engravings are dated from Cooper Age (anthropomorphic esquematic figures, made by pecking tecnique) and Iron Age (anthropomorpfic and zoomorphic figures, and weapons and signs, made by scratching technique). In particular, horses representation is very similar to iberian horses represented in mediterranean ceramics. It's also important to refer the evident association between engravings, and an inscription with iberian caractheres. |
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