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Portugal Douro and Côa, Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R.11A

Keywords: Aurochs, deer, zoomprphs, engravings,engravings, pecked, scratch, open-air, rock-art, schist.
Institution: IPT Tomar http://www.ipt.pt/gt/

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Location

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Country:	Portugal
Locality:	Guarda, Vila Nova de Foz Côa

Region:	Alto Douro / Beira Alta
Area:	Douro and Côa


Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R. 11A. Auroquespicotados e a polissoir (BAPTISTA, A.M.; 1999)		Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R. 11A.Decalque de cavalo transformado em veado (BAPTISTA, A.M.; 1999)

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 gravuras encontram-se submersas pela Barragem do Pocinho.
Proximity:	Localizada perto da Barragem do Pocinho, junto da Estrada Nacional 222.

Geology:	Zona de vale encaixado com vertentes abruptas, sendo uma das mais acidentadas do Vale do Côa, composta por xisto grauváquico.
Surface:	A rocha 11A é um grande conjunto vertical de forma sub-rectangular, disposto obliquamente, a cerca de 45 graus. Encontra-se subdividido em três superfícies separadas por duas fracturas profundas, que criam planos distintos.
Dimensions:	Length 5.30 m. Width 1.90 m.


Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R. 11A. Decalque sector central. (ZILHÃO, J.; 1997)		Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R. 11A. Decalque do sector inferior. (ZILHÃO, J.; 1997)

Art

Description:	Engravings Paintings Painted engravings High or low-relief Sculpture Seis pequenos painéis diferenciados. Auroques e outros animais dispostos em fila e por vezes sobrepostos entre eles.
Figures:	Figuras zoomórficas (bovídeos, cerídeos, quadrúpedes indeterminados).

Chronology:

Palaeolithic Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic Neolithic Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Roman Middle Age Modern Unknown

Todas as gravuras são de tipologia paleolítica.

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.

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Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R. 11A. Decalque sector superior. (ZILHÃO, J.; 1997)		Vale do Côa, Canada do Inferno, R. 11A. Detalhe Auroque da Rocha 11A. (ZILHÃO, J.; 1997)

Conservation

Status:	Public Private Park Classified site
Risk:	Algumas das rochas gravadas junto à foz da Canada do Inferno estão submersas, uma vez que a água sob influência da albufeira do Pocinho, subiu cerca de 12m. A Rocha 11A encontra-se emersa e o suporte apresenta- se fracturado.

Conservation:	Good Quite good Mediocre Bad
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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).

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