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España    Molino Manzanez, Rock XL "Gran Capullo" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Guadiana river,Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, Schematic Rock-art, carvings, Open-air,pecked, circle, zoomorph, undefinite
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Junta Extremadura. Consejeria de Cultura. Hipolito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
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Location
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Country:

España

Locality:

Alconchel

Region:

Extremadura ( Badajoz )

Area:

Molino Manzanez

 

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General view of the rock surface completelly engraved, after cleaning
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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 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. Site 040 is close to a the river bank 666º NNSSEEWW and located in the subarea denominated Grilling sourrounded by Chele 030, 031, 032, 035, 037

Geology:

Slate

Surface:

Horizontal surface, uncovered from beneath 20 cm of sediments with grass, cleaned of lichens and very affected by cracks and very erosionated. Orientation 340ºN-160ºS.

Dimensions:
Length 5.80 m.  Width 1.80 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The station is a great horizontal surface in which we see a great quantity of engravings. Engravings that are very deteriorated because of the erosion and the cracks of the rock surface.The types of engravings are quite varied, and they appear in great number, circles, pecked groups, semicircles, complex structures of lines, zoomorphs, snaky figures etc. There are about 25-30 circles, with a diameter that varies between 4 and 10 cm; 20 semicircular forms or incomplete circles, with some measures of between 5 and 30 cm; irregular lines without defined form and crisscross; 1 snaky figures of 21 cm of longitude, the thickness of its line is more or less of 2 cm; Zoomorph in horizontal position, is not very well conserved, although we can see the paws, the circular body, the neck, the head and the horns. It has 14 cm of long for 11 of wide. Associated to the previous figure, we see another possible zoomorph, worse conserved, in vertical position. Of this we only appreciate the circular body, the paws and the neck and the head. These two figures in association probably perform one of the rare scenes of schematic figures with indication of movement that can be interpretated as male zoomorphs fight. Another attractive motif in this station is a practically rectangular structure that is developed in a deep crack taking two different planes in the rock. The structure has 1.15 m. long for 30 cm of wide. In the interior, and associated to the line that forms the figure we see semicircular forms, pricked groups, in the left end, a group of thread like lines, in vertical, horizontal and inclined position.Their dimensions vary between 35 and 3 cm of long. It is difficult to number the quantity of figures that there is in this station. They have been considered groups of lines and of points like figures, although the quantity of indefinite motifs is bigger and more difficult of numbering. Besides, this rock is extremely interesting because of the double face figure described, remarked for its technical and executional complexity.

Figures:
total number 60
zoomorph, snaky figure, circle, thread like lines, groups of pecked, semicircles, indefinite.

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 XL 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 conservation state of the site is bad because the surface is very degradated, and profuselly engraved, especially in the central part. Also the natural rock is showing tracks of ancient erosion probably by water, that still affected the engravings. It has been proceeded to the cleaning of lichens of the rock. It has been documented starting from the direct tracing and the taking of pictures. Nowadays, it´s principal risk is the construction 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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