🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
El Pantanet component site in eastern Spain
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site component (ID 874-205) within a serial property of over 700 rock-art stations
- Location: Limestone rock shelter in eastern Spain (38.786972, -0.566111)
- Chronology: Post-Paleolithic Levantine rock art, primarily 10,000–4,000 BCE
- Subject matter: Human figures, hunting scenes, and animals depicted with mineral-based pigments
El Pantanet is one component of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO-designated serial property comprising over 700 prehistoric rock-art sites across eastern Spain. The site features figurative paintings executed in mineral pigments, primarily depicting hunting scenes and human figures in motion. El Pantanet contributes to understanding late prehistoric Mediterranean societies and represents the artistic traditions that flourished during the transition from ...