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Cave painting of a battle between archers, Morella la Vella, Spain. Iberian cave art of the Mesolithic shows explicit scenes of battle between groups of archers. [21] A group of three archers encircled by a group of four is found in Cova del Roure, Morella la Vella, Castellón, Valencia.
The Roca dels Moros or Caves of El Cogul is a rock shelter containing paintings of prehistoric Levantine rock art and Iberian schematic art. The site is in El Cogul, in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. Since 1998 the paintings have been protected as part of the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The dating of such art is controversial, but the famous honey-gathering painting is believed to be epipaleolithic and is estimated to be around 8000 years old. [1] The caves were discovered in the early twentieth century by a local teacher, Jaume Garí i Poch. They are included in the World Heritage Site Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin.
Paleolithic cave art. Upper Paleolithic (c. 40 - 11.5 ka ago) starts with the Aurignacian culture, which is mostly found in northern Iberia (current Asturias, Cantabria, Basque Country and Catalonia) in the beginning, and is the work of Homo sapiens. It later expands throughout all of the Iberian peninsula and is followed by the Gravettian.
Paleolithic cave and rock art has survived in Iberia until the present day. Altamira Cave is the most well-known example of the former, being a World Heritage Site since 1985. [18] The earliest examples, like the Caves of Monte Castillo (Cantabria), date to Aurignacian times. L'Arbreda Cave in Catalonia contains Aurignacian cave paintings as ...
Prehistoric cave painting of animals at Albarracín, Teruel, Spain (rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin) Cave artists use a variety of techniques such as finger tracing, modeling in clay, engravings, bas-relief sculpture, hand stencils, and paintings done in two or three colors. Scholars classify cave art as "Signs" or abstract marks.
The Cave of Maltravieso in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, was discovered in 1951. It shows traces of human occupation from the Middle Paleolithic . It contains cave art , most notably a total of 71 hand stencils , enumerated in the 1990s using ultraviolet photography, [ 1 ] but also linear designs and some animal paintings.
Eyed idol called "of Extremadura" (Copper Age, M.A.N., Madrid). Rock art in Peña Escrita (Ciudad Real). Iberian schematic art is the name given to a series of prehistoric representations (almost always cave paintings) that appear in the Iberian Peninsula, which are associated with the first metallurgical cultures (the Copper Age, the Bronze Age and even the start of the Iron Age). [1]