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Name      
España    Monfragüe, Site I "Pectisol" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Neolithic,Copper Age, shelter, schematic,sun shaped figure, pectiniform
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
Record
proposed
by
 Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain
 
Location
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Country:

 España

Locality:

 Serradilla, Sierra of Santa Catalina, "Cancho de la Cueva" sector.

Region:

 Extremadura, Cáceres

Area:

 Monfragüe

 

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General View of shelter Pectisol Nº 1
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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

Altitude:

550 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
The Natural Park of Monfragüe is located in the area were two rivers, Tajo and Tietar, come across, and presents low mountains, ranges with breach and narrow valleys, and some planes. It has a Mediteranean forest, with ilex and bushy vegetation -the most frecuent, cistus-. There is also landscape with eucaliptus, olive groves, and pasture land with ilex and corks. Nowadays the use of de land are the hunting and the pasture woodland. Shelter 001, located on top of steeprock, faces north-West. It´s located out of the Park, but very close to its limits.

Proximity:

 This site is about 100 m to the East from a forest road, and some meters below the path which follows the top of the Sierra, surrounded by brooms and bushes.

Geology:
Quarzite rock.

Surface:
The surface of the rock is very irregular, concave, convex, with cracks and yellows lichens.

Dimensions:
Length 1.54 m.  Width 1.65 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
In this site we can see 2 figures made with red pigment: a Pectiniform in horizontal position made with a thin trace - its dimensions are 3cm.higth/3.5cm wide -, and a sun shaped figure placed over the previus figure, made from a circunference of thin trace with 0,3 cm. and a diameter of 1´7 cm. From it, spread nine perimetral traces of 1 cm long. It was made with red pigment and its conservation status is not very good.

Figures:
total number 2
Sun shaped figure, pectiniform.

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
4000-600

Notes:
Discovered during the prospection made by Colectivo Barbaón in 1998. The site is known as "Pectisol". General paintings found show us pigment remainings. Just a few appears with good conservated pigment, and analysis about the composition of the red ones have shown mineral procedence from iron oxide, very common on the area.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
España EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Asociación Cultural Colectivo BarbaónGeneral (country)
Specific Monfragüe, Site I 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:
Its conservation status is not adecuate because of atmosferic effects and the influence of lichens.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
Three recording campaigns (1997,98,99) have taken place at Monfragüe, covering most of its sierras and stream breachs, in order to record all schematic art sites. The works, not finished, had given a number over 100 shelters with art, and the record consist in digitalizated tracings, pictures and descriptions that are also being compiled in several unpublished volumes. Monfragüe is a Natural Park where no human intervention is nowadays allowed, neither the presence of people near most of the art sites. The latter means the art is strictly preserved of any anthropical action wether it is damage or conservation works.

 
By          

Compiler:

 Antonio Criado Vadillo, Milagros Fernández.

Institution:

 Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
 
         Record n. 151 / 807
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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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