🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Mas del Gran component site, eastern Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- Levantine rock art dating to approximately 10,000–6,500 years ago (Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic periods)
- Part of a UNESCO serial property comprising over 700 related sites across eastern Spain
- Executed primarily with red and dark pigments on limestone rock shelters and shallow caves
- Depicts hunting scenes, human figures in ritual postures, and animal motifs including deer and caprids
Mas del Gran is one component of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage ensemble distributed across eastern Spain. This cultural property preserves an extraordinary concentration of Levantine prehistoric art that documents human activity during the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to early farming communities. The site's paintings, executed with red and occasionally dark pigments, provide direct evidence of prehistoric lifeways, social ...