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Name      
Portugal    Minho, Alto da Portela do Pau, mamoa 3 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Cup-marks, engravings, Megalithism
Institution: IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
Record
proposed
by
 Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal
 
Location
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Country:

 Portugal

Locality:

 Viana do Castelo, Melgaço, Castro Laboreiro

Region:

 Minho

Area:

 Minho

 

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Alto da Portela do Pau, mamoa 3. Laje com covinhas periféricamente distribuidas na parte interna. Encontrada durante a decapagem do sector Este. (JORGE,V.O. et al; 1997).
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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

Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Serra do Laboreiro. Planalto de Castro Laboreiro, superfície aplanada que chega a atingir cotas de 1300 m. Em termos ecológicos o planalto distribui-se pela, zonas "oro-atlânticas e pela "atlântica-sub-atlântica".

Proximity:

 Vila de Castro Laboreiro; Fronteira Portugal \ Espanha.

Geology:
Granito

Surface:
Muito irregular

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Laje de granito com covinhas de dimensão variável (entre os 2 e 4 cm de diâmetro, com uma profundidade entre 1,2 e 1,5 cm).

Figures:
total number 9
Covinhas

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Foram recolhidas três amostras de carvões junto à entrada da câmara e no seu exterior. Tendo-se obtido as seguintes datações pelo método de rádiocarbono- amostra 1 - 5087+/-31. Amostra 2- 5131+/-28 . Amostra 3- 5435+/-44.

Notes:
Trabalhos de campo realizados em 1993/94 por Vitor Oliveira Jorge, António Martinho Batista, Eduardo Jorge Lopes da Silva e Susana Oliveira Jorge
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Portugal EuroPreArt general bibliography, by IPT TomarGeneral (country)
Specific Minho, Alto da Portela do Pau, mamoa 3 bibliography, by IPT TomarSpecific (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:

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
O monumento encontra-se no interior da área de influência do Parque Natural da Peneda Gerês.

 
By          

Compiler:

 Artur Jaime Duarte

Institution:

 IPT Tomar  http://www.ipt.pt/gt/
 
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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).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem
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