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Locality: |
Alconchel. |
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Region: |
Extremadura. |
Area: |
Molino de Manzánez. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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107 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Carving zone of Cheles is located between Molino Manzanez area (Manzanez Mill) to Friegamuñoz Stream through the left bank of the river Guadiana. This area is affected by seasonal floodings of the river. Characteristic vegatation is mediterranean meadow. Traditional use of the land it's been the shepherding, the hunt and the fishing. |
Proximity: |
We arrive to the riverside where the engravings are located throught a path who runs 4 kms. from Cheles -which is the nearest locality to the rupestrian group- to the Guadiana. In the riverside we find a mill named " Molino de Manzánez" which is a common public area. About 1 km to to south far from the very mill is located this rock with engraved surface and close to the river bank. |
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Geology: |
Metamorphic slate. |
Surface: |
It is a horizontal, flat surface and with a great crack that divides the panel in two parts. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.33 m.
Width 0.68 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
This rock presents a panel with eight figures separated in two groups of four figures each one. Both are separate by means of a big and deep crack (it Measures between 4 and 11'5 cm. wide and 4 cm. long). To the left of the panel we can see the first four figures that are placed in a vertical way. This group is made up of three circles and a small bar. The first circulate it is the biggest (diameter 11 cm. long) and it has an Y-shaped antropomorph. The second circle has a small spot in the interior and the diameter is 7'5 cm. long. The third circle, the smallest, has a diameter 5 cm. long and it is together to the second for the superior part. In the inferior part it has a small vertical line together to the previous circle and it is 2'5 cm. long. The fourth figure is a bar that measures 5 cm. long. To the right of the crack there are other four figures prepared vertically. The first figure is an oval whose major diameter is 8 cm. long and it has a vertical line united by the inferior part. The second figure is a bar that measures 4 cm. long and it is lightly inclined. The third and the fourth figure are circles whose diameters measure 4 cm. long each one. These figures are carried out with the technique of the percussion and the thickness measures between 0'5 and 1 cm. wide. We can also see some loose bows along the whole panel.
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Figures: |
total number 8
Circles, bars, schemathic antropomorph.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
EPIPALEOLITHIC (IX millenium b.C) // NEOLITHIC (IV-III millenia b. C.) // COPPER AGE ( II milenium b. C.)
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Notes: |
EUROPREART DB Cheles records are just a little sample in short of the hole documentation of the site. All the documentation is registered in our own DB, and you can ask for more information at the e.mail adress barbaon@terra.com. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The principal risk that run the engravings are the future inundation of the area due to the constrution of the portuguese dam of Alqueva. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
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Intervention: |
Guadiana Valley carvings have had three campaigns of field work along year 2001 -5 months- for the whole documentation of the 573 rocks found in the site. All records are now in proccess of study for at least 4 months, that will come to a joint exhaustive publication with the ones recorded in portuguese river side. There are also incoming works consisting in the reproduction of a number of rocks in plastic materials for forecoming studies and real reproduction if posible in the future. |
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| Record n. 138 / 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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