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España    Guadiana River (Molino Manzanez), Rock CXII "Cardus" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Schematic rock art, engraving, open air, Neotithic, Cooper age, Alconchel, Guadiana River, pecked, thread-like lines, zoomorph, circle.
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.The rock is placed about 1 km to the south following the river from the mill, and it´s located in a commonly flooding area.

Geology:

Slate

Surface:

Smooth, greyish and red coloured surface facing 320º NW.

Dimensions:
Length 0.90 m.  Width 1.05 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The most interesting figure we can see on this rock is a big pecked buck. In this schematic figure we can distinguish the various anatomic details: the trunk consists of an oval 22 cm long and 12 cm wide, the legs, that arise from its lower part (slightly curved, in running position), the tail (a small appendix 1 cm long that arise at the back of the figure) and the antlers, that arise directly from the trunk (the figure lacks neck and head). These antlers consists on two curved lines with six and three points respectivelly. One of these antlers is very damaged by a big fissure, however we can see here how the author of these engravings used part of this fissure to carry out it. This figure is 30.5 cm long, 18 cm wide and 1 cm thick. This kind of pecked buck appear on other rocks too (chele106, eg). The extremities of this zoomorph appear joined an ideomorph figure consists on some curved lines and circular motives joined among them and difficult to identify. On this rock we can see another schematic pecked zoomorph. This figure is very similar to the last one. Nevertheless, in this case from the trunk only arise three appendixes: two legs 8.5 cm long, and a trace 3 cm long that could be the neck or the tail. This zoomorph is 24.5 cm long, 13.3 cm wide and 1 cm thick. Next to this figure we find an oval 13 cm long that have attached an appendix 3.7 cm long. The rest of figures that appear on this rock are two small circles 6.5 cm and 4.5 cm diameter respectively. We can also see here some thread-like lines, superimposed an dalso infraposed to the peckings.

Figures:
total number 6
2 zoomorphs, 2 circles, 1 oval, 1 ideomorph, thread-like lines.

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
8.000 -4.000 BP

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 CXII 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:

Rock loosing, polished and damaged by fissures. 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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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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