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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Fajana de Pera II

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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Fajana de Pera II
Levantine hunting scenes painted on a remote cliff shelter


🕐 2 min read · Updated 1 Apr 2026 at 17:35

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  • Neolithic to Copper Age rock shelter with Levantine-style painted figures
  • Located in eastern Iberia on a limestone cliff overhang
  • Features elongated human and animal figures in hunting and ceremonial scenes
  • Part of a broader Mediterranean Basin rock art cultural landscape

Fajana de Pera II is one of numerous small but significant painted rock shelters that form part of the Mediterranean Basin's Levantine rock art tradition. Tucked into a shallow limestone overhang, the site preserves dynamic human and animal figures that capture everyday life, movement, and ritual behavior from prehistoric communities who inhabited eastern Iberia thousands of years ago. Though modest in scale, the panel reads almost like a storyboard, turning the cliff face into a narrative ...

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