🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Mas d'en Salvador – Abric II
Levantine rock shelter with post-Paleolithic painted figures in northeastern Catalonia
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (component 874-269 of serial property 874), inscribed 1998
- Location: Northeastern Spain, Catalonia; limestone shelter in Mediterranean scrub landscape
- Levantine rock art tradition; paintings dated approximately 8000–3500 BCE
- Shallow natural rock overhang with mineral-based pigments (iron oxides); protected under regional, national, and international heritage frameworks
Mas d'en Salvador – Abric II is a prehistoric rock shelter in Catalonia that forms part of the serial UNESCO World Heritage property Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The site exemplifies the Levantine rock art tradition, a distinctive post-Paleolithic artistic practice confined to the Iberian Peninsula. The shelter's shallow limestone overhang bears painted figures consistent with hunter-gatherer and early agro-pastoral societies that occupied Mediterranean Spain ...