🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Cejo Cortado II
Prehistoric painted shelter in southeastern Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (Mediterranean Rock Art of the Iberian Peninsula)
- Location: Southeastern Spain, Murcia region
- Age: Neolithic to Bronze Age (approximately 8000–3500 years ago)
- Content: Stylized human figures, game animals, and hunting scenes in red and dark pigments
Cejo Cortado II is part of the extensive rock art tradition of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, preserved on a rocky cliff face within a rugged natural landscape. The shelter contains painted scenes that reveal how prehistoric communities understood their environment, social structure, and symbolic world, using the rock surface as a shared visual language. This site contributes to the broader UNESCO-designated rock art complex that documents some of Europe's earliest artistic ...