🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc de Bil.la-Abric II component site
📋 Fast Facts
- Part of a serial UNESCO World Heritage property comprising 758 rock-art locations across eastern and southern Spain
- UNESCO entry code 874; Barranc de Bil.la-Abric II is component 874-206
- Rock paintings date from late Mesolithic through Neolithic periods, primarily 8,000–3,000 BCE
- Located in a Mediterranean climatic zone ravine setting in eastern Spain
Barranc de Bil.la-Abric II is one of over 750 component rock-art panels within the UNESCO World Heritage property "Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula." This serial cultural site, inscribed in 1998, spans more than 1,000 kilometres across eastern and southern Spain. The site consists of open-air shelters and shallow caves featuring prehistoric painted figures executed in mineral-based pigments—red, black, white, and yellow—applied as fine outlines and colour fills ...