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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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420 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 shelter 030 is placed 10 m to southest from 029, opened 200º S. |
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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:
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Length 2.35 m.
Width 2.10 m.
Depth 2.25 m.
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Art |
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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.
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Figures: |
total number 23
Thick and thin bars, fingerdots, 1 U shaped figure, 1 curved line.
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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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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. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The shelter presents the walls darkened because of the smoke of bonfires made inside it. |
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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. 179 / 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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