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España    Molino de Manzánez, Rock XXVI "El Boceto" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Guadiana river,Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, Schematic Rock-art, Carvings, Open-air, pecked, filiforms, naturalistic deer, ideomorphic circles, wavy double line, superimposition.
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón. Junta de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito Collado Giraldo.  www.artrex.com
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Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain
 
Location
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Country:

España

Locality:

Alconchel

Region:

Extremadura

Area:

Molino de Manzánez

 

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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:

119 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 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. Located about 1 km far from the mill, theres this rock showing engravings that is placed quite very near the river course.

Geology:

Methamorphic slate.

Surface:

Horizontal surface, with cracks that cut certain figures, but the surface is mostly flat and smooth.The rock has an orientation of 350º and its colour is red/grey.

Dimensions:
Length 1.80 m.  Width 1.20 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The panel presents engravings made with different technical: percussion and incision. In chronological order first there is, on the center of Panel 2, a filiform figure which is partialy conserved but can be recognized as a deer representation. Global meassures are 49 cm long, from head to tail, and 41 cm high. It has a quite small head in proportion with the body and legs end in triangular shape. On the head big horns can be distinguished though badly damaged by rock oxidus. Very funny thing is the existence of a second back line arising from the same head and ending on a new backwards curvature, interpreted as the indication of another animal or movement of the first one, tough no legs can be associated clarly to tjhe second one. All along the surface there are several agroupations of filiforms, groups ol multitracing in the southern side, arround the deer and on the northern side, besides some long curves dispersed over, but for them not type can be given. Secondly, the group that's defined chronologically as later because of the percussion technique and for the clear superimpositions shows several types. First, there are Circles - simple, with appendix or composed by loose bows - three on the southern side, dispossed horizontally which meassure, from east to west, 10'5 cm. Diameter long, 7 cm. Diameter long and the third one 8 cm. Among the first circle and the second circle there is a punctuation and a bar lightly inclined toward the right; the bar measures 4 cm. long. The third circle is broken in half by a crack that is 1 cm. wide. The thickness of these circles is of 1 cm. Next, a circle, 10 cm. diameter long, with a vertical appendix (7 cm. long), cut in the middle by a crack, 1 cm wide that runs along the surface. Around the circle there is peckeds remains and incise lines that come under the pecked motif. To the left of this circle there are two snaky figures; the first figure is only drawn in its contour with a double paralel sinuous line, and it meassures 23 cm. Long, and it is clearly superimpossed to the paleolithic deer representation. The second figure, 17 cm. long, is surrounded of some peckeds remains ( little bars and loose bows). This area of the panel is travelled by more lines that cut to the figures made with percussion. Below, reading the panel to north, there is another figure that draws two peralel curves, carried out with the percussion technique. The northern part of the panel has two circles made with pecked and with loose bows, and the diameters measure 8 and 12 cm. of long; to the left, another group of loose bows, without definedshape.

Figures:
total number 14
6 Circles, 3 snaky figures, 4 bars, 1naturalistic zoomorph , pecked remains, graphited lines, spots

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
PALEOLITTHIC (Magdaleniense) 17.000-9.000 BP// EPIPALEOLITHIC (IX millenium b.C) // NEOLITHIC (IV-III millenia b. C.)// COPPER AGE ( II milenium b. C.)

Notes:

In spite of the cracks the state of conservation of the engraving is good. 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 de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito Collado Giraldo.General (country)
Specific Molino de Manzánez, Rock XXVI 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

 

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Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

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.

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:

Fuentes, Fernando; Girón, Montse; Fernández, Mila

Institution:

Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón. Junta de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito 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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