🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Maina
UNESCO World Heritage rock art site in eastern Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site component (identifier 874-084)
- Post-Paleolithic schematic and Levantine-style rock paintings
- Located in eastern Spain as part of transnational ensemble
- Depicts hunting scenes, human figures, animals, and abstract motifs
Maina is a documented rock art site within the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage ensemble. The site contains prehistoric schematic and Levantine-style rock paintings characteristic of post-Paleolithic artistic traditions across eastern and southeastern Iberia. The paintings provide archaeological evidence of how early Mediterranean communities expressed symbolic, ritual, and daily-life themes through visual representation ...