🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc de Famorca – Abric IV, Alicante, Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- One of over 700 sites comprising the serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1998)
- Levantine rock art tradition, primarily dated 8,000–3,000 BCE
- Located in Barranc de Famorca cluster near Castell de Castells, Alicante province, Valencian Community
- Inventory designation number 874 210; protected under Spanish heritage law
Barranc de Famorca Abric IV is one of several prehistoric rock art shelters in the Barranc de Famorca cluster, a component of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula serial World Heritage Site. The site contains Levantine rock paintings characteristic of the later prehistoric period, featuring naturalistic depictions of human figures, animals, hunting scenes, and symbolic motifs. These in situ paintings provide archaeological evidence of daily life, subsistence ...