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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, blackened, and red coloured surface, facing 320º NW. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.25 m.
Width 2.70 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The most abundant kind of engraving we can find on this rock is the incision. Filiform lines appear especially on slightly high zones of the rock and without relation with pecked figures. Nevertheless, some isolated peckeds are superimposed on these fine lines. These thread-like lines are from 0.3 cm to 7.2 cm long. On the other hand, the most abundant type of pecked figures that we can see on this rock is the circle. These figures are from 4.5 to 19 cm diameter, and from 0.4 cm to 2 cm thick. The motives can appear either isolated, or joined another ones, or placed in the inner part of a larger circle. In some cases, the circles have attached some appendix. One of the figures have several appendixes placed radially forming a sun-shaped motif. These appendixes are from 2 cm to 20.5 cm long and from 0.4 to 2.4 cm thick. On the rock we find some more pecked figures. The first one is a U-shaped figure placed horizontally, 11.2 cm long and 5 cm wide. The second one is a big cuadrangular figure 29 cm long and 34 cm wide. We can also find a wavy figure 15 cm long and 1 cm thick. An anthropomorph is placed below it. In this figure, 7 cm long and 8.2 cm wide, we can distinguish various anatomic details (trunk, head, upper extremities and the starting traces of the lower ones).
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Figures: |
total number 23
1 sun-shaped, 1 wavy figure, 1 anthropomorph, 16 circles, 1 quadrangular, 1 indeterminate, 1 U-shaped, 1 oval, 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: |
The rock is chipped off, washed off by water and damaged by fissures.Originally the engraved surface was partially covered by lichen and sedimets, wich were removed when discovered. 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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| Record n. 93 / 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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