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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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119 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 the South from the mill is this rock with engraved surface. |
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Geology: |
Methamorphic slate. |
Surface: |
The rock presents a quite broken horizontal surface, due to chips and fissures, besides being worn away by the water. Red and black its general orientation of the rock is of 330º N. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.00 m.
Width 1.13 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The panel presents different engraving techniques: percussion and incision. In the highest part we find a filkiform lines group. which meassure among 1cm. and 6 cm. Long and from this agroupation we can define a goat or deer head with indication of neck and detailed mouth. Under there are pecked remains with loose blows and a wavy ideomorphic which meassures 11cm of long, in percussion technique. The central part of the panel contains a circle with a vertical appendix in its inferior part.The circle has a diameter that measures 9 cm. long and the appendix is 10 cm. long. Crossing the circle there is a fringe of pecked remains that is 33 cm. long and 9 cm. wide. To the right of this there is a little anthropomorfic figure compose by a vertical bar (5 cm. long) in whose superior end two traces open up and descend on its sides between 2 and 3 cm and with two more appendixes onthe inferior end. In the inferior part of the panel we find a vertical and quite wavy line, 16 cm. long.
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Figures: |
total number 5
Zoomorphic partial figure filiform, 2 wavy pecked motives, circle with appendix, anthropomorphic pecked figure.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
PALEOLITTHIC (Magdaleniense) 17.000-9.000 BP // 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. 130 / 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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