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España |
Locality: |
Serradilla, Sierra of Santa Catalina, "Cancho de la Cueva" sector. |
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Region: |
Extremadura, Cáceres |
Area: |
Monfragüe. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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520 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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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 is placed in a middle slope, out of the Park but very close to its limits, in a rock outcrop and facing South East. It´s surrounded by brooms and bushes. |
Proximity: |
Beneath shelter monfr007 " El Duro", and about 300 meters to the south flows a watercourse paralell to the base of the sierra. |
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Geology: |
Quarzite rock. |
Surface: |
Very irregular, concave, convex, damaged by fissures, microflora and lichen. |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.10 m.
Width 1.85 m.
Depth 1.40 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The site is situated in a narrow hollow. Diverse plans of the rock form the surfaces where the pictorial motifs are laid out. Motifs are sun-shaped, branched out anthrop, anthropomorphic of distinct typologies like cruciforms and Y shaped anthrop, as well as another smaller one where the arms are curved upwards leaving the head between them. There are also zig-zag lines, bars and spots. However, there are also motives which are difficult to typify such as lines which come together to form, perhaps, an indoors-shaped figure, fine horizontal lines which are linked by one of their extremities,shapeless of paint or thread-like lines provably instrument. The figures have a reddish colour.
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Figures: |
total number 150
Thread-like lines, branched out motifs, sun-shaped, antropomorph,bar,Y shaped-anthrop, indoors-structure shape
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
4000-600
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Notes: |
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. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
its conservation status is not adequate due to the atmosferic effects, the influence of lichens. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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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. |
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By |
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Record n. 155 / 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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