🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc del Salt – Abric V, a Levantine rock shelter in eastern Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- Levantine rock art shelter near Alcoy, Alicante, Spain
- UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed 1998 (ID 874)
- Dated to Epipaleolithic and early Neolithic (approximately 10,000–6,500 years ago)
- Part of a serial site comprising over 700 rock art locations across eastern Spain
Barranc del Salt – Abric V is a shallow limestone rock shelter located near the city of Alcoy in the province of Alicante, within the Valencian Community of eastern Spain. The shelter forms part of the serial UNESCO World Heritage property titled Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. As one of many decorated rock shelters along the Barranc del Salt ravine, Abric V exemplifies the Levantine rock art tradition—a major prehistoric artistic movement of the western ...