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Locality: |
Serradilla, Sierra of Santa Catalina, "Cancho de la Cueva" sector. |
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Region: |
Extremadura, Cáceres. |
Area: |
Parque Natural de Monfragüe |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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390 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. |
Proximity: |
The paintings we are going to describe are placed in a shelter opened at the lower part of a scarped rock, in a gorge called "La Garganta del Helechal" wich cross the mountain range of Santa Catalina. The are more painted shelters around it, in both sides of the stream. |
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Geology: |
Quartzite |
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021 is a small shelter opened to SE, with a redish wall face and yellow lichens inside, and grey and dark ones outside the refuge. The three painted surfaces are flat.021 is a small shelter opened to SE, with a redish wall face and yellow lichens inside, and grey and dark ones outside the refuge. The three painted surfaces are flat. |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The paintings of this shelter are all dark red coloured -made with iron oxide-, and are distributed in three groups or panels.One of the red bars, very pale, is placed 40 cm. over the base of the shelter, 23 cm. above the closer group. It has been probably made with the finger, and is 1 cm thick and 3 cm long.The second panel has a similar bar, and also some red graphite lines, about 10, who seems to be aligned. They measure 2- 2,5 cm. long.(pict.3).The thirth panel is 46 cm lower, and it has two vertical and parallel bars. They are dark red and made with the finger, and measure 1 cm. thick and 4,5-3,5 cm. long.
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Figures: |
total number 5
The 5 figures have just two typologyes: four thick bars and some graphite lines.
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
VI-I milenium B.C. is the general schematic-paintings cronology in Spain. (We can´t give more accurate cronology because of the few references we can obtain in this case).
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
There are some pale paintings because of the sun damage. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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| Record n. 180 / 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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