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Name      
Portugal    Douro and Côa, Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R.1 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Aurochs, horses, goats, zoomorphs, lines, engravings, pecked, scratch, open-air, rock-art, schist.
Institution: IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
Record
proposed
by
 Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal
 
Location
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Country:

 Portugal

Locality:

 Guarda, Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Region:

 Alto Douro / Beira Alta

Area:

 Douro and Côa

 

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Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R.1 Esta foi a primeira rocha identificada com gravuras paleolíticas no Vale do Côa (1991?) )
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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

Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
A Canada do Inferno localiza-se um pouco a montante do local da ensecadeira, na margem esquerda do rio Côa. Grande parte das rochas com gravuras do sítio encontram-se submersas pela Barragem do Pocinho.

Proximity:

 Fica a cerca de 500 m da ensecadeira e do local onde ia surgir a barragem de Foz Côa.

Geology:
Vertentes abruptas, sendo uma das zonas mais acidentadas do Vale do Côa, composta por xisto grauváquico.

Surface:
A rocha 1 apresenta superfície vertical com forma subtriangular.

Dimensions:
Length 2.70 m.  Width 2.25 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Esta e' uma das rochas com mais sobreposições do Vale do Côa. Possui diversas figuras animais entre as quais é possivel auroques, cavalos, cabras e uma possivel corça. As primeiras gravuras foram executadas grafiando a superficie (filiformes) figuras parciais de pelo menos seis quadrúpedes. Sucessivamente a área foi coberta por gravuras a picotado e traços filiformes por abrasão (polissoir). E' possivel ver algumas figuras de auroque bastante dinamicas.

Figures:
total number 13
Figuras zoomórficas (equídeos, bovídeos, caprídeos, cervídeos, peixes, quadrúpedes indeterminados) e sinais.

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Gravetense, Solutrense e Magdalenense (?)

Notes:
Abstract: Canada do Inferno is one of the most relevant Rock Art sites of Vale do Côa Archaeological Park (Vila Nova de Foz Côa). It's an open-air site located in one of the most irregular areas of Côa Valley, on the left side of Côa river, and integrates thirty six schist rocks with Palaeolithic and Modern engravings, mostly submerged by Pocinho dam, made by pecking, scratching and abrading techniques. The most common types of figures are zoomorphic, especially horses and auroches.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Douro and Côa, Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R.1 bibliography, by IPT TomarSpecific (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:
As rochas gravadas junto à foz da Canada do Inferno estão submersas, uma vez que a água sob influência da albufeira do Pocinho, subiu ceca de 12m. A Rocha 1 encontra-se emersa e apresenta fracturas em algumas gravuras.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
Foi a primeira a ser identificado no Vale do Côa, ainda em 1991, mas só revelado em finais de 1994.

 
By          

Compiler:

 Ana Catarina Freire

Institution:

 IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
 
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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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