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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Abrigo de las Cañadas II

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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Abrigo de las Cañadas II
Levantine shelter with painted hunting and ritual imagery


🕐 2 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 16:15

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

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  • Levantine rock art shelter in eastern Spain, near Abrigo de las Cañadas I
  • Part of UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
  • Dating to Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic periods
  • Decorated with red ochre anthropomorphic and animal figures in dynamic hunting and ritual scenes

Abrigo de las Cañadas II is a Levantine rock art shelter located in the Mediterranean landscapes of eastern Spain, paired with its counterpart Abrigo de las Cañadas I. As a component of the UNESCO World Heritage site Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, it preserves painted imagery reflecting prehistoric hunting, social, and symbolic practices. The shelter demonstrates how successive communities used rock canvases to inscribe identity and ritual memory ...

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