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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 group of over 700 sites of prehistoric Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, also known as Levantine art, were collectively declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. The sites are in the eastern part of Spain and contain rock art dating to the Upper Paleolithic or (more likely) Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age .
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.
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]
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.
Spain is a country with many caves. The most famous Spanish caves are: Cave of Altamira, in Cantabria, famous for its Upper Paleolithic paintings.; Cuevas del Drach, on Majorca, containing one of the largest subterranean lakes in the world.
Cave paintings from the Paleolithic and post-Paleolithic eras have been discovered on the walls of the cave. For about 4,000 years from 25,000 BC the caves were used seasonally by a small group of humans, and were occupied by cave hyena during the periods that the humans were absent. By 21,000 BC the human population had taken up year-round ...
The dates for this early Magdalenian period oscillate between 16,433 BP for the Rascaño facies in Rascaño cave, 15,988 and 15,179 BP for the El Juyo facies in the same cave, and 15 ka BP for Castillo facies in Altamira. The facies in the Cave of Abauntz in the Basque Country has given 15,800 BP. [17] The middle Magdalenian shows fewer findings.