🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Garganta de la Hoz VI — UNESCO World Heritage Site
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (serial property comprising over 700 rock art sites across eastern Spain)
- Prehistoric rock art dating from Upper Paleolithic to Bronze Age (approximately 50,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE)
- Located in limestone formations with natural rock shelters in the Mediterranean Basin region of Spain
- Contains pictographs and petroglyphs depicting animals, human figures, hunting scenes, and abstract symbols
Garganta de la Hoz VI is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing over 700 rock art locations across eastern Spain. The site contains prehistoric paintings and engravings created over several millennia, primarily during the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. The rock art provides documented evidence of early human symbolic thought, ritual practice, and interaction with their environment ...