🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Abrigo del mediodía I (monte Arabí)
Neolithic and Copper Age painted rock shelter in southeastern Spain
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed as part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art complex
- Located on Monte Arabí near Hellín, Albacete Province, Castilla-La Mancha region
- Dates to Neolithic and Copper Age periods (approximately 7,000–4,000 years ago)
- Features painted panels depicting humans, animals, and geometric symbols on natural rock shelter walls
Abrigo del Mediodía I, situated on Monte Arabí in southeastern Spain, contains painted rock art panels that document the creative expression, ritual life, and material concerns of prehistoric Mediterranean communities. The shelter preserves scenes of human figures engaged in hunting, dancing, and ceremonial activities, alongside depictions of fauna including deer, goats, and horses. The combination of figurative and abstract imagery provides archaeological evidence of early symbolic ...