🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Cavidad V (Torcal de las Bojadillas)
Late Schematic Panels in a Karstic Shelter
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed as part of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
- Located in karstic terrain of eastern Spain (coordinates 38.178417, -2.222194)
- Contains Levantine schematic rock art dating to late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods
- Abstract anthropomorphic and geometric motifs rendered in red mineral pigments
Cavidad V at Torcal de las Bojadillas is a rock art shelter located within the karstic limestone landscape of eastern Spain. As part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, it preserves abstract motifs that illustrate the symbolic and ritual practices of later prehistoric communities. The shelter's protective stone cavity has enabled the survival of painted imagery over millennia, offering contemporary evidence of Iberian schematic artistic traditions ...