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

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🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula: Los Estrechos II
Levantine hunting scenes in a limestone gorge, eastern Spain


🕐 2 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 00:31

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

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  • Levantine rock-art shelter in eastern Spain
  • Prehistoric painted figures depicting hunting and social scenes
  • Part of UNESCO World Heritage Mediterranean Basin rock-art group
  • Located within a narrow limestone gorge in a rugged landscape

Los Estrechos II is a painted rock shelter in the Mediterranean Basin rock-art region of eastern Spain, where limestone cliffs and narrow ravines form natural galleries for prehistoric expression. The shelter preserves a concentrated panel of Levantine-style human figures rendered with remarkable economy of line, capturing moments of hunting, movement, and social interaction. Though modest in physical scale, the painted composition functions almost as a narrative sequence, documenting the life ...

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