🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Las Covaticas II
Prehistoric paintings in rock shelters near Hellín, Albacete Province
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (part of Mediterranean Basin rock art ensemble)
- Located in Albacete Province, southeastern Spain
- Neolithic and Copper Age origin (approximately 7,000–5,500 years ago)
- Contains human figures, animals, and geometric abstract motifs executed with natural pigments
Las Covaticas II is a significant rock art site within the UNESCO-designated Mediterranean Basin ensemble on the Iberian Peninsula. Positioned in natural rock shelters and against cliff faces, the site preserves prehistoric paintings that document the daily activities, ritual practices, and symbolic systems of early Iberian communities. The artwork spans millennia and provides direct evidence of how these societies understood their world and communicated meaning through visual imagery ...