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Cocó de la Gralla

Mas de Barberans, Montsià, Tarragona

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Cocó de la Gralla

Curiosity · Mas de Barberans, Montsià, Tarragona

The Cocó de la Gralla cave paintings are found in the Montpou ravine, within the els Ports natural park, in the municipality of Mas de Barberans. They were discovered by a resident of Santa Bàrbara, and in 2014 the Generalitat's Archaeology and Palaeontology Service confirmed their authenticity and launched a plan to recover the site. They include 69 figures in the Levantine style, among them 27 archers, four human figures and three goats, some with ornaments such as feathers, with two rows of running archers and animals and tracks forming a possible hunting scene. The group, with figures not documented in Catalonia until 2018, is dated chronologically to the Epipalaeolithic-Mesolithic, between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago.

Photo: Norman masià (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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