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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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118 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 vegetation 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 throught a path (4 kms. to Cheles which is the nearest locality to the rupestrian group). In the riverside we find a mill named " Molino de Manzánez" which is a common public area. |
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Geology: |
Methamorphic slate. |
Surface: |
The panel has an orientation of 110º NE It is an horizontal surface with many cracks that are affecting the figures. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.20 m.
Width 0.55 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
First, made with the technique of percussion, a curved line appears in the superior part of the panel. The longitude of the line is of 28 cm. long. Below it there is a kind of oval figure willing vertically that it is not closed by the left part because of a crack. The major diameter of this oval is 27 cm. long. In the interior there is another curved line 7 cm. long, and a straight line, diagonal 9 cm. long. There are also some lines made with incision, without order, and the longest is 3 cm. long. Under this figure there is a circle made with loose bows. The diameter is 12 cm. long. Under there is a small group of lines made with the incision technique. The sizes oscillate between 0'5 cm. and 3'5 cm. long.
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Figures: |
total number 3
Curved line, oval, circle loose bows, graphited lines.
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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. 125 / 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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