🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Abric del Racó del Condoig rock shelter, eastern Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- Serial UNESCO World Heritage property comprising over 700 rock art sites across eastern Spain
- Chronology: primarily 8000–3500 BCE (Late Upper Paleolithic to early Neolithic)
- Style: Levantine tradition with dynamic human and animal silhouettes, fine linear strokes
- Pigments: mineral-based reds and blacks from iron oxides and charcoal
Abric del Racó del Condoig is one of the component sites within the serial UNESCO World Heritage property Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula (identification 874-157). Located in eastern Spain's limestone landscape, this rock shelter preserves prehistoric pictorial representations spanning the Late Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and early Neolithic periods. The site contributes to the largest concentration of prehistoric rock art in Europe, documenting early human ...