Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula The
late prehistoric rock-art sites of the Mediterranean seaboard of
the Iberian peninsula form an exceptionally large group. Here
the way of life during a critical phase of human development is
vividly and graphically depicted in paintings whose style and
subject matter are unique. Justification for Inscription
Criterion iii: The corpus of late prehistoric mural paintings in
the Mediterranean basin of eastern Spain is the largest group of
rock-art sites anywhere in Europe, and provides an exceptional
picture of human life in a seminal period of human cultural
evolution. The corpus of late prehistoric mural paintings in the
Mediterranean basin of eastern Spain is the largest group of
rock-art sites anywhere in Europe, and provides an exceptional
picture of human life in a seminal period of human cultural
evolution. Its uniqueness, its documentary value, its
integration into a landscape bears the imprint of man but is
also of high ecological value, a