🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Roca del Senallo
Neolithic and Copper Age rock paintings in eastern Spain
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (part of the broader Mediterranean Basin rock art designation)
- Location: Eastern Spain, coordinates 40.373389, -0.224917
- Period: Neolithic and Copper Age
- Primary subjects: Human figures in hunting and ceremonial scenes; deer and wild goats
Roca del Senallo preserves a group of prehistoric rock paintings on exposed rock faces within a rugged landscape. The site documents the lived experiences, social structures, and belief systems of early Mediterranean communities through imagery that combines scenes of daily survival with apparent ritual and symbolic content. The paintings form part of a wider Mediterranean tradition of rock art concentrated in eastern Spain and remain accessible to archaeological study ...