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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Abrics de l'Apotecari

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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Abrics de l'Apotecari
Prehistoric painted rock shelter in eastern Spain


🕐 2 min read · Updated 1 Apr 2026 at 23:20

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📌 Fast Facts
  • UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed as part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
  • Contains Late Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic pictographs
  • Located within a broader prehistoric cultural landscape in eastern Spain
  • Features figurative motifs executed primarily in red iron oxide pigment

Abrics de l'Apotecari is a documented painted rock shelter situated within the UNESCO World Heritage Site designation of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The shelter preserves a series of prehistoric pictographs created during the Late Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods. The site forms part of an extensive concentration of prehistoric art extending across eastern Spain, representing one of Europe's most significant repositories of hunter-gatherer artistic ...

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