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Name      
España    Monfragüe., Site VIII "El Duro" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Neolithic,Chalcolithic, shekter, schematic,anthropomorphic.
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 El Duro nº 8
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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:

580 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. The shelter 008 is placed in the rock outcrop in the top of the mountain and facing South-West. It´s located out of the Park, but very close to its limits.

Proximity:

 Close to the top and near to the monfr007 " El Prado", and about 300 meters to the south flows a watercourse paralell to the base of the sierra.

Geology:
Quarzite rock.

Surface:
The surface is inclinated more or less 45º . Its Rough, wih some cracks,microfolora and yelow liches.

Dimensions:
Length 2.00 m.  Width 3.50 m.  Depth 5.00 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
On the roof of the shelter there is a type of anthropomorphic figure, thick traced, measuring 1 cm. wide and which was probably drawn with the finger using a reddish pigment. This figure measures 13 cm high and 10 cm. wide. Underneath it we can see the remains of pigment, which possibly formed what was another anthropomorphic figure. The lines that are conserved are also thick, measuring 2´5 cm. This figure is 8 cm high and 10 cm wide.

Figures:
total number 2
anthropomorphic.

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 " El duro".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 VIII 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

 

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Conservation        

Status:

 Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:
Its conservation status is regular , the motifves are some dull.

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

Institution:

 Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
 
         Record n. 158 / 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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