🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Coves Roges Abric II–III, Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- Serial property comprising over 700 prehistoric rock-art shelters across eastern Spain
- Artwork dates from approximately 7th to 4th millennium BCE
- Coves Roges Abric II–III feature schematic and Levantine-style paintings in red iron-oxide pigments
- Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site for exceptional testimony to prehistoric symbolic expression
Coves Roges Abric II–III are component shelters within the larger serial property known as Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in the Iberian Peninsula's Mediterranean arc, these small natural rock overhangs preserve prehistoric pictorial panels executed primarily in red pigments. The site exemplifies the broader cultural landscape illustrating early human symbolic expression during the Late Prehistoric period, when hunter-gatherer societies were transitioning ...