🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Peña del Escrito I
Levantine shelter featuring early symbolic imagery
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998 as part of Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin
- Epipalaeolithic to early Neolithic Levantine rock art shelter in eastern Spain
- Features red ochre anthropomorphic and animal figures painted in narrative hunting scenes
- Protected by natural rock overhang, ensuring long-term pigment preservation
Peña del Escrito I is a Levantine rock art shelter in the Mediterranean landscapes of eastern Spain. As part of the UNESCO-listed Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, this site preserves painted imagery illustrating prehistoric hunting scenes, social practices, and symbolic expression created by Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic communities ...