🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Cueva de Moncín I
Levantine rock art shelter in the Ebro Valley, northeastern Spain
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (part of the Mediterranean Basin rock art ensemble)
- Location: Ebro Valley region, Aragon, Spain (41.863611°N, 1.586056°W)
- Cultural period: Epipalaeolithic to early Neolithic
- Primary medium: Red ochre painted figures on rock shelter walls
Cueva de Moncín I is a prehistoric rock shelter containing painted imagery characteristic of the Levantine rock art tradition. The site preserves human and animal figures rendered in red ochre, reflecting the symbolic systems, subsistence strategies, and social structures of early Mediterranean communities. The shelter's enclosed setting has contributed to the long-term survival of its painted motifs ...