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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula

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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Abric de les Torrudanes component site


🕐 3 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 00:26

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📋 Fast Facts
  • UNESCO identification: 874-158, part of serial property with over 700 component sites
  • Location: Mediterranean region of Spain, rock shelter with limestone formations
  • Period: Approximately 8000–3500 BC (Levantine/Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition)
  • Medium: Painted motifs in mineral-based pigments, not engravings

Abric de les Torrudanes is a rock shelter in eastern Spain that preserves prehistoric painted motifs belonging to ...

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