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España    Parque Natural de Monfragüe, Site XXIII, "El amanecer". EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Monfragüe, Schematic paintings, Sierra, red, black, bar , fingerdot, antropomorph, ramifyed antropomorph, ancor shaped figure.
Institution: Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
Record
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Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain
 
Location
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Country:

España

Locality:

Serradilla,Sierra of Santa Catalina, "Cancho de la Cueva" sector.

Region:

Extremadura , Cáceres.

Area:

Parque Natural de Monfragüe

 

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General view of Shelter El Amanecer nº 23
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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.
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Environment & Surface

Altitude:

425 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

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:

023 ("El amanecer" shelter) is located near 022, but in the southern side, also in a middle high of the steep rock. From this site we can see, about 400 m to the west, the "Helechal" watercourse.

Geology:

Quartzite

Surface:

All the paintings are distributed along the north face of the shelter, in a redish, ridged and cracked surface, covered by some lichen.

Dimensions:
 Width 6.60 m.  Depth 3.46 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
On the right end of the shelter and 75 cm above the floor, we have an interesting figure (fig) formed by 2 concentric circumferences - not closed in their lower extremes - with 7 curved bars arround them. It´s 22 cm long and 20 cm width. Close to this figure are some blots of 2-6 cm, 10 fingerdots, 2 bars, and another one curved in its upper extreme to the left. All of this paintings are red, and made with the finger - thick lines-. The same happens with the group located 0,5 m to the right, were appear one bar, one indeterminated figure, and 3 or 4 kinds of schematic antropomorphs: one ancor shaped antropomorph 13 cm high and 8 cm width with a vertical bar crossed by a double horizontal curved bar; the left side of the second one has a vertical prolongation; in the middle side of the panel is situated another antropomorph, this one 18 cm high and 20 cm width, formed by a vertical line with 4 horizontal ones like arms in its upper side, and 2 diagonal ones like legs in the lower side; the upper ones have four dots between them, and finish in thin lines that we can identify with the fingers; few cm to the righ, we find another antropomorph 12 cm high, with a curved line who cross from left to right the upper side of a vertical line, one in the central part - going just curved to the left (¿posible etnographic object?) - and one curved too on the lower side who cross again the vertical bar; the next figure is very deteriorated, and we can observe only a vertical bar with two curved lines that join with it. Underneath those paintings, made with thick lines, there is a thin ancor shaped, and an indeterminated figures. Close to them are two groups of thick and vertical bars - 5 and 6-, 8 fingerdots, one ramifyed figure 12 cm high with 5 horizontal lines who cross the vertical one, and two black paintings, a thin line and a small and thin ancor shaped figure. Following the description from left to right, there is a thick bar 3 cm long, another antropomorph 10 cm high with rounded head and curved arms, 2 pairs of vertical and paralels bars (5,4 - 6,5 and 4 - 3,3 cm long), a "T" figure 7 cm high, and some blots.

Figures:
total number 58
Antropomorphs, bars, fingerdots, ancor shaped figures, blots.

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
VI-I milenium aC. 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).

Notes:

 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
España EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Asociación Cultural Colectivo BarbaónGeneral (country)
Specific Parque Natural de Monfragüe, Site XXIII, 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

 

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Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Some pictures are affected by lichens.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

 

By          

Compiler:

Milagros Fernández Algaba

Institution:

Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón  
 
         Record n. 173 / 807
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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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