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Name      
España    Parque Natural de Monfragüe, Site XXX, "La lluvia" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Schematic paintings, iron oxide, shelter, bars, fingerings.
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
Record
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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:

Parque Natural de Monfragüe

 

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General view of shelter La Lluvia nº 30
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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:

420 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.

Proximity:

The shelter 030 is placed 10 m to southest from 029, opened 200º S.

Geology:

Quartzite

Surface:

Looking at the planimetry of the shelter, (fig.) is clear the situation of the paintings in the NW wallface inside it, who is a little bit ridged and cracked. It´s a oranged surface, darkened by bonfires smoke.

Dimensions:
Length 2.35 m.  Width 2.10 m.  Depth 2.25 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
All the paintings of this site are red, made with iron oxide. Most of them about 1 cm thick, and a few thin. They are located 1, 5 m depht, on the west surface of the shelter, and presents 3 groups or panels: the first one has two paralell and vertical bars made with the finger and 4-5 cm long. Loocking 25 cm to the right there are 6 vertical bars and a fingerdot in a paralell position; under them is another dot, one small V shaped figure, and two thin vertical lines, the lower one is attached to a wavy line,thin too. 30 cm below those figures, we find another 6 vertical thick bars, one of them about 2,3 cm width, 2 fingerdots and, made with thin lines, an U sahped figure, and a curved line like a hook.

Figures:
total number 23
Thick and thin bars, fingerdots, 1 U shaped figure, 1 curved line.

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).

Notes:

The Natural Park Area has been traditionaly used by shepherds. They followed all the water courses who cross the region, and they where the authors of many bonfires made inside the shelters. Now there are not shephers inside the Park, and people can´t visit many areas.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
España EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Asociación Cultural Colectivo BarbaónGeneral (country)
Specific Parque Natural de Monfragüe, Site XXX, 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:

The shelter presents the walls darkened because of the smoke of bonfires made inside it.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

 

By          

Compiler:

Milagros Fernández Algaba

Institution:

Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
 
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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).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem

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