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<< Text Pages >> Cueva Tajo de Las Figuras - Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 02 March 2017  Page Views: 1698

Natural PlacesSite Name: Cueva Tajo de Las Figuras
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 20.382 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Cave or Rock Shelter

Latitude: 36.317134N  Longitude: 5.734389W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain

El Tajo de las Figuras contains over 500 painted figures on its rock walls, with superimposed figures and scenes, which have often been repainted. The motifs are of different sizes, styles and colours, which determine different phases in their production. They can be classified in three main groups: human figures, animal representations and signs.

The 507 paintings at El Tajo de las Figuras can be classified into three main groups, where the most common figures are birds, deer and humans. The most usual colours are red, yellow and white. In general terms, their age can probably be established in the Upper Palaeolithic and the Copper Age, until at least the early Bronze Age. Zoomorphic figures and schematic motifs are also abundant.

Age: Probably between the Upper Palaeolithic and the early Bronze Age.

Natural rock-shelters, consisting of a group of sites: Tajo de las Figuras, del Arco, Cimera or Los Cochinos, Negra, Alta, El Tesoro or La Paja, and Los Pilones.

How to Find the Site: The site of Tajo de las Figuras is located a few kilometres from Benalup-Casas Viejas. These paintings, located next to the old lagoon of La Janda, on the right bank of the River Celemín, at the foot of Sierra Momia, are located in a series of rock-shelters: Tajo de las Figuras, del Arco, Cimera or Los Cochinos, Negra, Alta, El Tesoro or La Paja, and Los Pilones

Opening days and times: Tuesday to Sunday, from 11.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 18.00.

Booking and Access:

Guided visits can be booked in advance for parties of over 10 people at Benalup Municipal Tourism Office. Visitors can also see the site without booking as it has warden from the Culture Department. In both cases there is no charge. Municipal Tourism Office and Information Centre for the Natural Park of Los Alcornocales: c/ Paterna 4, 11190 Benalup, Cádiz. Telephone: 956 424 009.
Official Web Site: www.benalupcasasviejas.es

The site warden, who is normally at the entrance of El Tajo de las Figuras, will point out the way or accompany visitors to the necropolis that is very near the rock-art site. The access is quite difficult (by steep ladders) and is not recommended for small children and elderly people with limited mobility.

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Re: Cueva Tajo de Las Figuras by Catrinm on Wednesday, 19 February 2020
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Cuevo Tajo de Las Figuras

Have you been here Andy. Is it accessible by car or is there a long walk ? Is it worth a detour? Looking for rock art site sin Andalucia that are open

Catrin M
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Necropolis del Celemín by Andy B on Thursday, 02 March 2017
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Also nearby (needs its own site page)
Necropolis del Celemín (Dólmenes del Celemín)
http://www.prehistoriadelsur.com/2013/12/dolmenes-del-celemin.html
http://historiacasasviejas.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/las-necropolis-megaliticas-del-entorno_2.html
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Birds in the cave painting during the recent Prehistory in south of Iberian Peninsula by Andy B on Thursday, 02 March 2017
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Birds in the cave painting during the recent Prehistory in the south of the Iberian Peninsula
Author - Profesora Lazarich, María, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain (Presenting author)
Co-author(s) - Ramos-Gil, Antonio, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
Co-author(s) - González, Juan Luis, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
Co-author(s) - Malla, Manuela, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
Co-author(s) - Cruz, María José, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain

Birds were not one of the favourite issues in order to be used for rock paintings in the Iberian Peninsula. In spite of that, in the southern end of Spain it is focused the greatest amount of this kind of artistic manifestations. We are referring to the shelter of Tajo
de las Figuras (Benalup- Casas Viejas, Cádiz), which represents the 99’94% of the total of bird representations of postpaleolithic rock paintings in the Iberian Peninsula. In 17 square meters of wall surface 962 pictograms are represented, of which 208 are
birds. In it, social groups in the Recent Prehistory capture the rich ecosystem of the former Laguna de la Janda and where birds
had a leading role. Our research group has recently made a detailed investigation of these paintings, in which we have been
able to ascertain the existence of very diverse species and scenes of ethology of these birds and an exaltation of fertility, as a
whole. Other scenes, even though they could be related to waterbird hunting, it is also possible that they have a shamanic ritual
significance, in connection with life and death.
By the same token, systematic prospecting works in the surroundings allow us confirm the existence of a spatial pattern,
where shelters with rock paintings are demarcated in the territory in close liaison with settlements, necropolis, communication
routes and catchment areas. Of special interest is the megalithic necropolis, located at the foot of the shelters (Necropolis del Celemín), due to its complex exchange of intervisibility between shelters with paintings (Arco and Tajo de las Figuras) and
megalithic tombs

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Cueva Tajo de Las Figuras by Andy B on Thursday, 02 March 2017
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Photos at
http://www.prehistoriadelsur.com/2013/12/cueva-del-tajo-de-las-figuras.html
See also
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_del_Tajo_de_las_Figuras
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