🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Los Rumies
Neolithic and Copper Age painted panels in a natural rock shelter
📋 Fast Facts
- Location: Albacete province, southeastern Spain (38.243667°N, 1.571306°W)
- Period: Neolithic to Copper Age (approximately 7000–2200 BCE)
- Medium: Natural pigments on interior rock shelter walls
- UNESCO status: Part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art inscribed heritage site
Los Rumies is a prehistoric rock shelter site in the Mediterranean Basin tradition of the Iberian Peninsula, distinguished by its painted panels depicting human figures, animals, and symbolic imagery. The art, executed in natural pigments on the shelter's interior walls, dates to the Neolithic and Copper Age periods and reflects the visual language of early Iberian communities. The site preserves scenes of movement, hunting, and communal activity that illuminate how these societies understood ...