Rupestre paintings of Roca dels Moros del Cogul

The rupestre paintings of Roca dels Moros del Cogul, together with all the representations of the Iberian Mediterranean arch, is a World Heritage Site since 1998. It is part of an area that has been inhabited by man almost continuously since the Paleolithic. The excavations carried out at the site indicate that the cavity was used exclusively as a place of worship. The painting consists of 42 painted figures and 260 elements engraved on the rock. The first groups to use the space were the last hunter-gatherers (8,000-5,000 BC), who left behind paintings belonging to the Levantine art. Later, during the fifth and second millennium BC, it was the Neolithic groups that drew their beliefs on the rock through very diverse representations that fall into schematic art. Among all these paintings there are also later inscriptions, from Iberian and Roman times, although many are illegible. [extracted from www.mac.cat].