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España    Molino Manzanez, Rock L "Conflictivo" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Guadiana river,Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, Schematic, Rock-art, Open-air,pecked,ancor shaped atroph,threadlike lines.
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Junta Extremadura. Consejeria de Cultura. Hipolito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
Record
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Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain
 
Location
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Country:

España

Locality:

Alconchel

Region:

Extremadura ( Badajoz )

Area:

Molino Manzanez

 

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General of the area of Molino manzanez and Guadiana River
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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

Altitude:

127 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

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 flooding 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 which 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

Geology:

Slate

Surface:

Horizontal surface, affected by lichens and cracks.

Dimensions:
Length 2.30 m.  Width 2.20 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
On this surface we observe 6 groups of fine lines prepared in position horizontal, vertical, inclined and issolated vertical, horizontal fine lines clearly, one of them in semicircular form, the dimensions of these lines vary between scarce milimeters. and 4- 5 cm of longitude. We can establish several classes of groupings of these lines: group of lines in contact, of small size, between 0.5 and 2 cm, prepared in diverse positions, without forming a certain structure; group of lines in inclined disposition, in contact and crossed, crisscross with bigger dimensions, between 5 and 7 cm; group of 4 horizontal and parallel lines with similar dimensions 4 or 5 cm and a last group of lines very incise in inclined position, of 7 - 8 cm of longitude, and other two perpendicular lines to these. We don't see a type determinated in this group. We also observe groups of pecked whose typology is difficult to determine, irregular lines that associate, groups of dispersed pecked and wavy lines formed by discontinuous pecked, with a thickness that varies between 0.5 and 1 cm. These wavy lines have 23 cm of longitude, both are associate clearly, they are parallel and they have a very similar disposition. We only recognize a figure, it is an ancor shaped anthrop, made off with the same technique type: Discontinuous pecked in the trunk of the figure and inferior extremities, the superiors are formed by a continuous line. It is in inclined position and it has 20 cm of longitude. Very close to the previous motif. Among them and surrounding to the ancor shaped anthrop figure a group of pecked whose thickness is approximately of 0´5 cm. .

Figures:
total number 8
thread like lines, groups of pecked, ancor shaped antroph.

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.)

Notes:

It is difficult to number the quantity of figures that there is in this station. They have been considered groups of lines and of points like figures. Although the quantity of indefinite motifs is bigger and more difficult of numbering 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.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
España EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Junta Extremadura. Consejeria de Cultura. Hipolito Collado GiraldoGeneral (country)
Specific Molino Manzanez, Rock L  Specific (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:

its conservation state is good, although the surface is wornout because of the erosion of the water. The surface is also affected by the lichensThe principal risk that run the engravings are the future inundation of the area due to the constrution of the portuguese dam of Alqueva.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

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.

 

By          

Compiler:

Antonio Criado Vadillo

Institution:

Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Junta Extremadura. Consejeria de Cultura. Hipolito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
 
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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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