🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Penyó de les Carrasques – Abric II, Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed in 1998
- Located in eastern Spain within the Mediterranean climatic zone
- Part of a serial property comprising over 700 rock art sites
- Paintings executed primarily in red mineral pigments, dated to post-Paleolithic periods
Penyó de les Carrasques – Abric II is a rock art shelter in eastern Spain that forms part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage property Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The site consists of a shallow limestone shelter with decorated surfaces featuring red ochre paintings from the post-Paleolithic period. As one component within a vast ensemble of more than 700 prehistoric rock art sites across eastern and southeastern Spain, it provides evidence of early human ...