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Name      
España    Molino Manzanez, ROCK XVI "El Pectiniforme Solitario" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Schematic rock art, engraving, open air, Guadiana river, Neolithic - Copper Age, pecked, zoomorph, horizontal surface
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Junta Extremadura. Consejeria de Cultura. Hipolito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
Record
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by
 Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain
 
Location
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Country:

 España

Locality:

 Alconchel

Region:

 Extremadura ( Badajoz )

Area:

 Molino Manzanez

 

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General view of the rock
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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

Altitude:

124 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

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 flooding of the river. Characteristic vegatation 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 which runs 4 kms. from Cheles - 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. It is next to the river and surrounded by several rock-sites -the main one is Chele 015-, in the sector that we denominate Mill Area.

Geology:
Slate

Surface:
Horizontal surface quite polished by water, affected by lichens and cracks. Its orientation is 340º N.

Dimensions:
Length 0.76 m.  Width 0.74 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
This rock shows one only motif located in the center of the rocksurface. It is a pecked motif considered as zoomorph of "pectiniform" type. It is formed by a horizontal line with 7 cm long and a thickness of 0´5-0´8 cm, with three vertical lines coming out from it, the left one longer. Their dimensions vary between 7 and 10 cm of long and 8 cm of wide. There are few zoomorphs belonging to this very schematic type at the Molino Manzanez site.

Figures:
total number 1
Zoomorph scheme (pectiniform).

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.)//

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.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
España EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Junta Extremadura. Consejeria de Cultura. Hipolito Collado GiraldoGeneral (country)
Specific Molino Manzanez, ROCK XVI Specific (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:
Its conservation state is good, although the surface is wornout because of the erosion of the water. The surface is also affected by the lichens. Nowadays, it´s principal risck is the construstion of a dam - Alqueva´s dam - wich will flood the hole area.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

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.

 
By          

Compiler:

 Antonio Criado Vadillo

Institution:

 Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Junta Extremadura. Consejeria de Cultura. Hipolito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
 
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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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