🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Racó de Gorgorí – Abric I, a Levantine rock shelter with prehistoric paintings
📋 Fast Facts
- Shallow limestone rock shelter with Levantine rock art
- Painted panels dated to Epipaleolithic to early Neolithic (approximately 8000–3500 BCE)
- Part of a serial UNESCO World Heritage property comprising over 700 sites across eastern Spain
- Fine-line paintings using iron oxide pigments, depicting human figures, animals, and hunting scenes
Racó de Gorgorí – Abric I is a shallow natural rock shelter formed by limestone erosion in eastern Spain. The shelter's partial protection from weather has created favorable conditions for the preservation of prehistoric pigment-based paintings. Painted panels are located on the inner wall surfaces generally at eye level, consistent with deliberate placement for visibility. The site is one component of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a vast collection of more ...