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Portugal    Douro and Côa, Vale do Côa, Penascosa, R.9 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Goats, zoomorphs, engravings, pecked, open-air, rock-art, schist.
Institution: IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
Record
proposed
by
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal
 
Location
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Country:

Portugal

Locality:

Guarda, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Castelo Melhor

Region:

Alto Douro / Beira Alta

Area:

Douro and Côa

 

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Penascosa. Rocha 9. (ZILHÃO, JOÃO; 1997).
Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Localiza-se nos afloramentos da margem direita do Vale do Côa, acompanhando o curso do rio ao longo de uma praia fluvial.

Proximity:

Acesso por estrada rural a partir de Castelo Melhor.

Geology:

Xisto grauváquico.

Surface:

Superfície inclinada a cerca de 80º, de forma subtriangular, de cor castanha escura avermelhada.

Dimensions:
Length 2.30 m.  Width 0.80 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Na parte superior desta rocha, observa-se uma pequena porção da linha cervico-dorsal e a cauda, assim como parte da perna traseira, de um caprino disposto na horizontal e voltado para a direita. Completo, seria um animal de grandes dimensões, gravado na parte mais elevada do painel. Foi aberto por picotagem profunda. A cauda apresenta dois traços paralelos e a perna tem perfil em V. Abaixo desta figura descobre-se um conjunto de gravuras filiformes. Junto ao bordo, reconhecem-se a cabeça e o pescoço de um quadrúpede, talvez um equídeo, voltado para a direita. Apresenta cabeça longa, com linha de testa algo curva e linha mandibular recta. A extremidade do focinho é arredondada. Sobre a testa observa-se uma orelha, de forma lanceolada, alta. Da linha cervico-dorsal só foi representado o arranque, e tanto o interior da cabeça como o peito se encontram preenchidos por traços filiformes. À esquerda identifica-se uma figura de quadrúpede, de espécie indeterminada, obtida através de uma simples linha de contorno. Mostra uma linha de testa ligeiramente curva, linha mandibular quase recta e extremidade do focinho apontada. A linha do peito é recta. Sobre esta figura reconhece-se um conjunto de traços filiformes, que sugerem uma figura de tipo pisciforme. Outros traços filioformes, dispostos na vertical, na horizontal ou oblíquos, não constituem figuras reconhecíveis.

Figures:
total number 3
Figuras zoomórficas (caprino, quadrúpedes indeterminados)

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown

Notes:

Abstract: Penascosa is one of the most remarkable Rock Art sites of Vale do Côa Archaeological Park. It's an open-air site, that combines a great number of engraved rocks. These engravings were made by pecking, scratching and abrading techniques, and combination of some of these. In the context of Vale do Côa Rock Art, Penascosa is one of the three biggest nucleous, together with Quinta da Barca and Canada do Inferno sites. In Penascosa are represented engravings dating from all palaeolithic epochs, namelly rock 3, which presents a long figure stratigraphy, animated figures, and a rare mothif of palaeolithical rock art: a fish representation. It's visible a rare technique, made by surface abrading. There are also engravings dated from Neolithic and Iron Age.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Douro and Côa, Vale do Côa, Penascosa, R.9 bibliography, by IPT TomarSpecific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Esta zona é ciclicamente inundada pelas cheias de Inverno, submergindo total ou parcialmente as rochas decoradas localizadas a cotas mais baixas.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

 

By          

Compiler:

Ana Catarina Freire

Institution:

IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
 
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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).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem

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