🎨 Abrigo de los Gavilanes (Valdeinfierno)
Neolithic and Copper Age rock-shelter with painted panels in southeastern Spain
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (part of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula)
- Located in Valdeinfierno, Murcia region, Spain (37.801°N, 1.979°W)
- Depicts human figures, animals, and geometric symbols in natural pigments
- Dating to the Neolithic and Copper Age periods
Abrigo de los Gavilanes is a prehistoric rock-shelter in southeastern Spain that preserves painted panels from the Neolithic and Copper Age, forming part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site features human figures engaged in hunting and ceremonial activities, depictions of deer, goats, and horses, and abstract geometric motifs rendered in mineral pigments on cliff surfaces. The imagery provides archaeological evidence of the social ...