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España    Guadiana River (Molino Manzanez), Rock CII "Petra" EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Schematic rock art, engraving, open air, Neotithic, Cooper age, Alconchel, Guadiana River, pecked, thread-like lines, circle, wavy figure. Superimposition.
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón. Junta de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito 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 (Badajoz)

Region:

 Extremadura

Area:

 Guadiana River (Molino Manzanez)

 

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General view of the rock
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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:

120 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 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 which runs 4 kms. from Cheles - 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.The rock, facing N, is placed close to Guadiana River and the "Arroyo del perro" stream, and surrouded by bushes.

Geology:
Slate

Surface:
Smooth and red coloured surface, facing 350º NW.

Dimensions:
Length 0.55 m.  Width 0.60 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
On the upper part of this rock we can see a winding figure with some parts without pecking. This figure is 21 cm long, 10 cm wide and from 0.5 to 2 cm thick. On the central part, we find a circle 5.2 cm diameter, made with a discontinous pecked. Is placed below them an ideomorphic motif, consisting on a winding line 7 cm long and an horizontal line 5 cm long joined up in one of their ends. Finally, we can find a lot of thread-like lines from 0.4 to 13 cm long. Some times, these lines appear forming complex groups, but they can also appear isolated. In some cases we can see a superimposition of the peckeds on the thread-like lines.

Figures:
total number 3
1 circle, 2 ideomorph wavy figures, thread-like lines.

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
8.000 -4.000 BP

Notes:
These engravings was discovered on January/February 2001.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
España EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón. Junta de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito Collado GiraldoGeneral (country)
Specific Guadiana River (Molino Manzanez), Rock CII 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:
Engravings damaged by fissures and polished. Originally the engraved surface was partially covered by lichen, wich was removed when discovered. Nowadays, it´s principal risck is the construction of a dam - Alqueva´s dam - wich will flood the whole area.

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:

 Pulido, Joanjo; Fernández, Mila; Girón, Montse.

Institution:

 Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón. Junta de Extremadura. Consejería de Cultura. Hipólito Collado Giraldo  www.artrex.com
 
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