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Rock Art of the Set River

Alfés, Segrià, Lleida

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Rock Art of the Set River

Curiosity · Alfés, Segrià, Lleida

Image of Alfés, not of the place itself.

The site, known as l'Abric d'Alfés, was discovered around 1972 by Adolf Costafreda and the La Femosa research group. The paintings depict a group of male goats and date from the Epipalaeolithic, between 10,000 and 6,500 years ago. They belong to Levantine rock art, characteristic of hunter-gatherer groups of the Mediterranean arc, and form part of the ensemble declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1998 under the heading Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Despite this, most of the rock shelters catalogued in the lands of Lleida lack any form of effective protection, leaving this fragile heritage at risk.

Photo: Josep Salvany i Blanch (Public domain)

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