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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Mascún IV

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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Mascún IV
Levantine hunting scenes in the Sierra de Guara canyon


🕐 2 min read · Updated 1 Apr 2026 at 18:51

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📌 Fast Facts
  • Located in Mascún ravine, Sierra de Guara, Aragón, Spain
  • Levantine rock art tradition dating to late Mesolithic–early Neolithic periods
  • Red and brown mineral pigments depicting hunters, animals, and coordinated group activity
  • Protected by natural limestone overhangs in a remote canyon environment

Mascún IV is a prehistoric rock-art panel sheltered beneath natural limestone overhangs in the dramatic canyon landscape of the Mascún ravine in Aragón's Sierra de Guara. Created during the late Mesolithic to early Neolithic transition, the site contains fine, elongated human figures rendered in red and brown mineral pigments that capture movement, hunting, and social life with remarkable economy of line. The panel forms part of the wider Levantine artistic tradition that stretches along ...

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