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España |
Locality: |
Serradilla (Sierra of Santa Catalina. Sector: Cancho de la Cueva) |
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Region: |
Extremadura, Cáceres |
Area: |
Parque Natural de Monfragüe. |
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Environment & Surface |
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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 rock shelter 012, placed in the middle slope of a rock outcrop, faces west. It´s located out of the Park, but very close to its limits. |
Proximity: |
Close to the path and to a cork oak grove. The shelter is sorrounded by brooms and bushes. |
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Geology: |
Quartzite rock. |
Surface: |
Smooth surface. Orange-coloured with blackened edges by smoke. |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.60 m.
Width 1.20 m.
Depth 4.80 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
We can point out a group of schematic anthropomorphs joined in the extreme of its outstretched arms, forming an almost symmetrical composition. The central figure is an ancor shaped anthropomorph with a very developed torax. Its hardly indicated head is placed between two semicircular appendixes that can refer to some garment. The lower extremities stretches down approximately 10 cm, keeping inside a group of ten vertical bars. The male sex is indicated with a line between the legs. The other two anthropomorphs are smaller and more simples than the previous figure. The composition is 30,5 cm high and 22,5 cm length. The preferential position of the central anthropomorph and its bigger size seems to be an example of hierarchy marks. On the other hand, we can see a lot of comb-shaped figures. The horizontal lines are from 5 cm to 13 cm long, and the vertical lines are from 4,5 cm to 12 cm long. All the lines are 1 cm wide. In some cases we can see a clear superimposition of the vertical lines on the horizontal lines. All the shelter's figures are red.
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Figures: |
total number 59
Anthropomorph, fingering, walking stick-shaped, Y-shaped anthropomorph, curvilinear, comb-shaped, indeterminate, round, bar
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
4.000-600 BC.
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Notes: |
The rock shelter was discovered during the prospection made by Colectivo Barbaón in 1999.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: |
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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. 185 / 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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