🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Abric d'Ermites V exterior
Prehistoric Levantine rock shelter with Upper Paleolithic paintings, Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- Serial UNESCO property encompassing multiple rock-shelter sites across eastern Spain
- Levantine-style paintings dating to approximately 8000–5000 BCE
- Late Upper Paleolithic and early Holocene period
- Natural cliff-wall shelter preserving prehistoric pigments
Abric d'Ermites V exterior is one of several documented rock-shelter sites comprising the serial UNESCO World Heritage property known as the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The shelter preserves Levantine-style paintings that record the symbolic world of early human groups in eastern Spain during the late Upper Paleolithic and early Holocene periods. Its cliff-wall location has provided natural protection allowing pigments to endure for thousands of years ...