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España    Molino Manzanez, Rock XXX " Grilling ". EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Guadiana river, Epipalaeolithic, Neolithic, Schematic, Rock-art, Open-air, ideomorphic pecked motives , Zoomorphs, Ancor shaped antropomorphs.
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Junta Extremadura. Consejeria de Cultura. Hipolito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
Record
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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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View of panel 2, circular body zoomorph, straight body zoomorph and notice the degradation of the surface
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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:

127 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 vegatation is mediterranean meadow. Traditional use of the land it's been the shepherding, the hunt and the fishing.

Proximity:

The acces to this archaeological enclave is permitted because of a path which is situated inside a pWe 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.

Geology:

Slate

Surface:

Is an horizontal surface, smooth and quadrangular form.

Dimensions:
Length 2.10 m.  Width 1.90 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
This rock shows in its horizontal surface two techniques: Percussion and incision. In the second we can find two goups of interlaced lines whithout a defined form and a series of isolated or gathered lines in reduced groups. Then, there are a total number of 31 figures made by percussion with a line whose thinckness is 2 cm average between all figures. There are 8 zoomorphs, with circular body, which vary between 33cm and 8cm wide per 20cm and 12cm high. They are well-defined and with all their anatomic parts: Tail, rear legs, penis,front legs, neck head and horns; all of them are represented with extremities spreaded simulating the action of runnig. Only one of the zoomorphic figures is represented headless. Two of them are faced to each other and joined by the head, and from the horns of one of them emerges a zig-zag line. Another one is an schematic representation of zoomorph with straight body, scheme that is quite usual in painted representations along the peninsula's schematic art and less common than the circular body type along Molino Manzanez area. Next 1 snaky figure which meassures 26cm high and 3cm wide. 2 antropomorphs, one of them is headless and 7cm wide per 9cm high and the other is 39cm high per 15cm wide. They are schematic ancor shaped. 6 figues in circle whose dimensions range between 6cm and 14cm of diameter.16 formless figures whose measures range between 36cm and 4cm high per 32cm and 2cm wide. It`s important to point out that some of the figures are damaged by the impariment of the surface and by quite a lot of fissures and chips.

Figures:
total number 31
8 zoomorphs,1 snaky figure, 2 ancor shaped antropomorphs, 6 circles and 16 formless figures.

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 XXX 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:

Total risk due to the imminent flooding of the area for the principal risk that run the engravings is 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:

Fernando Grande Túregano, M.G.y M.F.

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).
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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