🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Abric de les Torrudanes component site
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO identification: 874-158, part of serial property with over 700 component sites
- Location: Mediterranean region of Spain, rock shelter with limestone formations
- Period: Approximately 8000–3500 BC (Levantine/Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition)
- Medium: Painted motifs in mineral-based pigments, not engravings
Abric de les Torrudanes is a rock shelter in eastern Spain that preserves prehistoric painted motifs belonging to the larger UNESCO World Heritage serial property, Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The site contains examples of Levantine-style rock art, characterized by painted human figures, animals, and dynamic hunting scenes. As one component within an ensemble of over 700 sites, it contributes to understanding early human symbolic expression, social behavior, and ...