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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Abric d'Ermites IV o Cova Fosca

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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Abric d'Ermites IV o Cova Fosca
Levantine rock-shelter art in eastern Spain


🕐 1 min read · Updated 1 Apr 2026 at 16:41

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📋 Fast Facts
  • Located in eastern Spain as part of a serial UNESCO World Heritage property
  • Rock-shelter site with early Holocene painted motifs
  • Executed in the Levantine artistic tradition
  • Depicts hunting scenes and human-animal interaction

Abric d'Ermites IV, also known as Cova Fosca, is a documented rock-shelter site within the serial property Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. It forms part of a substantial cultural landscape of prehistoric art distributed across eastern Spain. The site consists of a shallow limestone shelter that preserves painted motifs created by early Holocene hunter-gatherer communities ...

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