🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc de Frainos – Abric I, Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- Component 874-137 of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin serial property
- Dating: approximately 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE (Levantine-style rock art)
- Located in eastern Spain within rugged Mediterranean landscape with limestone formations
- Part of Europe's largest concentration of prehistoric rock art, encompassing over 700 sites
Barranc de Frainos – Abric I is a designated rock shelter component of the larger UNESCO World Heritage listing for the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The site preserves Levantine-style pictographs created by prehistoric communities over millennia, documenting the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to early agro-pastoral populations. The shelter's natural limestone formations and ravine environment provided ideal conditions for the preservation of these ...