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Name      
Portugal    Douro and Côa, Moinhos de Cima EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Schist, Zoomorphic, Open-air, Rock-art, Incisions.
Institution: IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
Record
proposed
by
 Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal
 
Location
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Country:

 Portugal

Locality:

 Guarda, Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Region:

 Alto Douro / Beira Alta

Area:

 Douro and Côa

 

 
Environment & Surface

Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Localizado namergem esquerda do rio Côa.

Proximity:

 Junto à embocadura no Douro.

Geology:
Xisto.

Surface:
Painéis verticais.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Núcleo constituído por oito rochas. Cinco das rochas apresentam motivos zoomórficos de estilo naturalista, representando capríneos e cervídeos em traço filiforme inciso. Nalguns casos, traços múltiplos preenchem o interior do corpo gravado do animal. As outras rochas identificadas apresentam motivos zoomórficos semi-esquemáticos, gravados igualmente em traço filiforme inciso.

Figures:
Figuras zoomórficas (capríneos, cervídeos).

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Paleolítico Superior.

Notes:
Abstract: Moinhos de Cima it's a a rock art open-air site of Vale do Côa Archaeological Park, which integrates 8 engraved schist rocks. The engravings were made by scratching (filiform), and represent zoomorphic naturalistic mothifs, and semi-esquematic zoomorphs. Theses are dated from High Palaeolithic.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Douro and Côa, Moinhos de Cima bibliography, by IPT TomarSpecific (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:

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

 
By          

Compiler:

 Ana Catarina Freire

Institution:

 IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
 
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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).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem
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