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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Los Estrechos I

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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Los Estrechos I
Dynamic Levantine paintings of hunters, movement, and ritual life


🕐 2 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 09:55

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πŸ“‹ Fast Facts
  • Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic rock shelter with painted scenes of hunters and game animals
  • Located in eastern Spain within the Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition
  • Features dynamic human figures rendered in red and ochre mineral pigments on limestone
  • Part of a wider network of decorated sites forming a unified cultural landscape

Los Estrechos I is one of the painted rock shelters within the broader Mediterranean Basin rock art tradition ...

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