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Portugal    Douro and Côa, Vale do Côa, Canada do Amendoal, R.1 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Deer, zoomorphs engravings,scratch, 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

 

 
Environment & Surface

Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Localizado na margem direita de pequena ribeira tributária do Rio Côa.

Proximity:

Geology:
Xisto.

Surface:

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Foi identificada até ao momento uma única rocha com gravuras rupestres. Os motivos orientados a sudeste, integram um conjunto de zoomorfos naturalistas, representando cervídeos, a traço filiforme e múltiplo, traços que preenchem quase todo o interior do corpo. As figuras são de pequenas dimensões.

Figures:
Figuras zoomórficas (cervídeos).

Chronology:

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

Notes:
Abstract: Canada do Amendoal it'a a rock-art open-air site of Vale do Côa Archaeological ParK. At the moment it as only been studied 1rock with engravings, represented by a set of small zoomorphic naturalistic filiform mothifs, dated from High Palaeolithic. These were made by scratching technique.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Douro and Côa, Vale do Côa, Canada do Amendoal, R.1 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:

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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