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Country: |
España |
Locality: |
Serradilla,Sierra of Santa Catalina, "Cancho de la Cueva" sector. |
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Region: |
Extremadura , Cáceres. |
Area: |
Parque Natural de Monfragüe |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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425 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. |
Proximity: |
The site 029 is located 200 m to the west from the site 031, in the Southern slope of the sierra, opened 220º S. |
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Geology: |
Quartzite |
Surface: |
The shelter has an oranged, craked, and somethimes ridged surface. |
Dimensions:
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Length 1.75 m.
Width 3.40 m.
Depth 0.75 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The paintings are distributed along the central surface of the shelter, 1,10 cm from its west end. We see thick lines, and also graphited ones, all of them dark red colored, made with iron oxide. In the first panel, located 30 cm above the floor, there are 5 bars and 6 fingerdots. Looking 6 cm to the right, we find the beginig of the second panel,
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Figures: |
total number 65
bars, fingerings, 1 phi figure, graphited lines, 1 "T" , and one pectiniforme figure, some indeterminates.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
VI-I milenium aC. is the general schematic-paintings cronology in Spain. (We can´t give more accurate cronology because of the few references we can obtain in this case).
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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: |
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By |
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Record n. 178 / 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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