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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. More than 1 km to the south far from the mill, this rock is located in the bank of an internal stream due to an arm of the river. |
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Geology: |
Metamorphic slate. |
Surface: |
It is a horizontal surface. The rock shows us a broken surface and specially worn away by the water. The colour of the surface is dark grey.The orientation of the rock is 320º N. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.00 m.
Width 1.30 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The panel presents different figures. There is a group where we can see two inclined bars that are joint by the central part. In this group we can also see percussion remains and some loose blows. The rest of the panel is made up of three circles with a spot in the central part of each one. The first circle whose diameter measures 13'5 cm. long has a spot 2 cm. wide. To the left of him we can see a fringe of pecked remains and loose blows. Under there is a great oval whose major diameter measures 15 cm. long. The corresponding spot measures 3 cm. wide. This oval has a great curved appendix that ascends until the first oval. This appendix measures 25 cm. long and at the end of him there is a bifurcation. In the inferior part the oval has two vertical and parallel appendixes to each other that they are 3 cm. long each one. To the left, in the inferior part there is another oval that is together to the previous one by means of a fine line that is 5 cm. long. The major diameter is 16 cm. long, and the minor diameter is 14 cm. long. This oval has an appendix in the superior part that is 3 cm. long. In the central part, as the other ones, it has a spot 2 cm. wide. Under this oval there is a spot whose diameter is 4 cm. long. The used technique has been the percussion. We can also see 18 small lines carried out with the technique of the incision distributed by the whole surface.
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Figures: |
total number 3
Ideomorphic pecked figure (Bars, circles, spots) vertical lines and oval motif
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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
Bad
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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. 143 / 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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