🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc de Mastec component site, serial UNESCO World Heritage property
📋 Fast Facts
- Component site 874-249 within serial UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed in 1998
- Located in a ravine (barranc) landscape in eastern Spain, coordinates 38.733111, -0.470167
- Post-Paleolithic pictographs dated roughly 10,000 to 4,000 years before present
- Depicts narrative hunting scenes, human figures, and animals in red and reddish-brown mineral pigments
Barranc de Mastec is a component site of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a transnational serial UNESCO World Heritage property encompassing hundreds of prehistoric rock art sites across eastern Spain. The site consists of painted rock shelters situated within a narrow ravine landscape characteristic of the Mediterranean Iberian hinterland. The paintings represent post-Paleolithic rock art traditions, contributing to one of Europe's largest concentrations of ...