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Locality: |
Serradilla, Sierra of Santa Catalina, "Cancho de la Cueva" sector. |
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Region: |
Extremadura, Cáceres |
Area: |
Monfragüe. |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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540 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
The Natural Park of Monfragüe is located in the area were two rivers, Tajo and Tietar, come across, and presents low mountains, ranges with breach and narrow valleys, and some planes. It has a Mediteranean forest, with ilex and bushy vegetation -the most frecuent, cistus-. There is also landscape with eucaliptus, olive groves, and pasture land with ilex and corks.The shelter is located middle slope in the sierra, out of the Park but very close to its limits, in a steep place, facing South West. Hunting and shepherding can be found in the surrounding area. |
Proximity: |
"Cancho the la Roca" is located about 400 to the east from a forest road and 600 to the west from "La Garganta" gorge. Isolated, its sourranded by broms and bushes and close to a cork oak grove. |
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Geology: |
Quarzite rock. |
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It´s very irregular (convex, concave, rough, cracks) with patina and yellow and green lichen.Some parts of the surface are blackeneds by the smoke. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 5.70 m.
Width 32.70 m.
Depth 5.60 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The drawingns are distributed along this big shelter. The main figure is a vertical bar which has been drawn as a fine or thick line.Fingerings, horizontal lines, and theard-like lines all abundant inside the shelter. Anthropomorphic figures, the majority of which are anchor-shaped,ohers are headless drawn with a thick line, and although there ara also others made up of much finer lines all drawn with certain meticulousness. Branched out motifs, indoors-structure shapes and sun-shaped also appear. All motifs have been drawn in a red colour with diverse techniques, such as the use of the finger or the use of instrument like twigs or feathers.
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Figures: |
total number 233
bar,ancor shaped antrop,anthropomorf,indoors-structure shape,sun-shape,branched out motif, remains of pigmet.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
4000-600
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Notes: |
Discovered during the prospection made by Colectivo Barbaón in 1998. The site is known as " Cueva del Cancho o Cueva Amarilla".The Natural Park Area has been traditionaly used by shepherds. They followed all the water courses which cross the region, and they where the authors of many bonfires made inside the shelters. Now there are not shephers inside the Park, and people can´t visit many areas. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
its conservation status is not adequate due to the atmosferic effects, the influence of lichens, and the antropical incidence |
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Conservation: |
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Mediocre
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Intervention: |
Three recording campaigns (1997,98,99) have taken place at Monfragüe, covering most of its sierras and stream breachs, in order to record all schematic art sites. The works, not finished, had given a number over 100 shelters with art, and the record consist in digitalizated tracings, pictures and descriptions that are also being compiled in several unpublished volumes. Monfragüe is a Natural Park where no human intervention is nowadays allowed, neither the presence of people near most of the art sites. The latter means the art is strictly preserved of any anthropical action wether it is damage or conservation works. |
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| Record n. 157 / 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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