🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Cova Llarga component site in eastern Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- Component 162 of UNESCO serial property ID 874
- Contains Levantine pictographs in red mineral pigments
- Part of over 1,000 cataloged rock art sites across eastern Spain
- Documents prehistoric artistic tradition from c. 8,000–3,000 BCE
Cova Llarga is one of the documented sites within the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a serial UNESCO World Heritage property. Located in eastern Spain, it preserves prehistoric pictographs executed in red pigments derived from mineral oxides. The site forms part of a vast archaeological landscape that encompasses more than a thousand cataloged sites, representing one of the most extensive concentrations of prehistoric rock art in Europe ...