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España |
Locality: |
Alconchel (Badajoz) |
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Region: |
Extremadura |
Area: |
Guadiana River (Molino Manzanez) |
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Environment & Surface |
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Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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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. |
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Geology: |
Slate |
Surface: |
Smooth, greyish and red coloured surface facing 320º NW. |
Dimensions:
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Length 0.90 m.
Width 1.05 m.
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Art |
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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.
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Figures: |
total number 6
2 zoomorphs, 2 circles, 1 oval, 1 ideomorph, thread-like lines.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
8.000 -4.000 BP
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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. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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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. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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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. |
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By |
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Record n. 90 / 807 |
No commercial use is allowed. Specific © is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution |
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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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