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España    Guadiana River (Molino Manzanez), Rock CVII "Los Cangrejos" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Rock art, engraving, open air, Palaeolthic, Mesolithic; Neotithic, Cooper age, Alconchel, Guadiana River, pecked, thread-like lines, reticles, palaeolithic female deer, schematic zoomorph, superimposition.
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón. Junta de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
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Location
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Country:

España

Locality:

Alconchel (Badajoz)

Region:

Extremadura

Area:

Guadiana River (Molino Manzanez)

 

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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

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:

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. Around 1 km to the South from the mill is located this engraved station.

Geology:

Slate

Surface:

Smooth, greyish and red colored surface.

Dimensions:
Length 2.12 m.  Width 2.30 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The most abundant kind of figures that appear on this rock are the circles and the ovals. The circles are from 3 cm to 13 cm diameter, and the ovals are from 6 cm to 18.5 cm long. These pecked figures can appear isolated (in some cases joined an appendix from 4.5 c, to 20 cm long), or joined another ones forming groups more or less numerous (from 2 to 4 units)), or placed in the inner part of some figures. These motives are from 0.5 cm to 2 cm thick, however, one of them is pecked in its inner part. Nevertheless, the most interesting motives we find here are the pecked zoomorphic figures, all of them schematic. The first one have a trunk consists of a circle 11.5 cm diameter. From this circle arise seven appendixes: the front legs (two traces 10 cm long), the back ones (two very desproportionate traces 16 cm and 18 cm long respectively), the neck (very desproportionate too), the tail and the male sex. In the head of this zoomorph we can distinguish the muzzle and two horns. This figure is 41.2 cm long and 19 cm wide. Near to this motif, appear a comb-shaped figure consists of an horizontal trace 14.5 cm long, three vertical lines 5.5 cm long, and a starting vertical trace 1.5 cm long. On these two figures (the zoomorph and the comb-shaped figure) we can see a regular reticle made with thread-like lines consists of seven vertical lines from 12.5 cm to 29 cm long crossed by eleven horizontal lines from 24.5 cm to 27 cm lont. Between the neck and the front legs of the zoomorph we can see another reticle. In this case consists of two parallel fine lines 7 cm long with 8 crossed diagonal lines forming rhombuses. This reticle is 1.2 cm wide. The next three zoomorphs have a similar characteristics. The trunk consists of a big oval, from 15.5 cm to 22 cm long. From this oval arise some appendixes: legs, neck, tail, and, in one of the three figures, the male sex is indicated. We can distinguish in these zoomorphs the head, the muzzle and two horns. We can also see a pecked circle in the inner part of the trunk. All the figures have outstretched their legs, in running position. However, the front legs of one of these zoomorphs go on to back forming two concentric circles 12 cm and 19.5 cm diameter. Some figures have attached one or more circles in its horns or legs. The last zoomorph that we can see here is made from different way to the other ones. The trunk is an oval 9 cm long. From its right part arise two straight appendixes 3 cm and 4.5 cm long (one back leg and one front leg). Near to its left part appear two more straight lines 6.5 cm and 5 cm long respectively. From the upper part of the trunk we find the head and possibily two horns consists of some irregular traces. This figure is 16.7 cm long and 11.2 cm wide. Apart from the reticles, on this rock we can see another thread-like lines from 0.3 cm to 10 cm long. Sometimes these lines appear forming groups more or less complex, but they can appear isolated too. In some cases, these fine lines have superimposed to the peckeds. But there are also very important lines infraposed, defining a naturalistic female deer with paralells in the Magdaleniense rock art. Finally, appear here some moder engraved letters (without patina). We can read: "AA", "MIA", and "A7A".

Figures:
total number 32
5 zoomorphs, 1 comb-shaped figure, 16 circles, 5 ovals, 2 reticles, indeterminates, thread-like lines, naturalistic female deer.

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Magdaleniense -17.000 BP- the naturalistic deer made with filiform lines, and Neolithic -Copper Age - 8.000 to 4000 BP -the schemathic pecked figures.

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 de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito Collado GiraldoGeneral (country)
Specific Guadiana River (Molino Manzanez), Rock CVII 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:

Nowadays, it´s principal risck is the construction of a dam - Alqueva´s dam - wich will flood the whole 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:

Pulido, Joanjo; Fernández, Mila; Girón, Montse.

Institution:

Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón. Junta de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
 
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