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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Hocino de Chornas

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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Hocino de Chornas
Levantine rock art shelter in a narrow canyon


🕐 1 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 18:45
📋 Fast Facts
  • Levantine rock art site in eastern Spain
  • Located within a sheltered canyon landscape
  • Part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition
  • Preserves prehistoric symbolic and social imagery

Hocino de Chornas is a Levantine rock art site situated within a narrow canyon where natural rock shelters provided protection for painted panels over millennia. The site is part of the wider Mediterranean rock art tradition of eastern Spain, preserving imagery that reflects the symbolic, social, and economic life of prehistoric communities. The sheltered canyon setting has enabled long-term preservation of these ancient artistic expressions ...

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