🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc del Salt – Abric II, a Levantine rock shelter with prehistoric paintings
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1998 as part of a serial property encompassing over 700 rock art sites
- Located in eastern Spain within Mediterranean limestone ravines and rock shelters
- Dated to the Epipaleolithic and early Neolithic periods, approximately 10,000–6,000 years before present
- Features Levantine rock art tradition with red and dark reddish-brown pigments depicting human and animal figures in dynamic, narrative scenes
Barranc del Salt – Abric II is a protected prehistoric rock shelter forming part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a serial UNESCO World Heritage property recognized for its outstanding concentration of Levantine rock art. Located in eastern Spain's limestone ravines, the site consists of naturally formed shelters whose overhanging rock faces provided protection for painted surfaces executed over millennia. The paintings, primarily in iron oxide pigments ...