🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
UNESCO World Heritage component site in eastern Spain
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site component (ID 874-215), inscribed 1998
- Located in eastern Spain within the Mediterranean cultural zone
- Rock shelter with schematic painted figures dating approximately 10,000–3,500 years before present
- Part of serial property encompassing over 700 prehistoric rock art sites across the region
Cova Alta – Abric II is a prehistoric rock shelter and component of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The shelter contains schematic and stylized painted figures executed with mineral-based pigments, predominantly red ochre, depicting human forms, animals, and abstract symbols. As one of hundreds of cataloged sites within this serial inscription, it represents a significant concentration of post-Paleolithic rock art in ...