280 Ice Age Rock Art Motifs Identified in Spain's Cova de la Font Major: Study Calls It the Third-Largest Palaeolithic Cave Art Assemblage in Mediterranean Iber
Catalonia, Spain — Archaeologists have identified 280 Palaeolithic rock art motifs in the Cova de la Font Major in Catalonia, Spain, in a study published in the journal Antiquity by Josep Maria Vergès Bosch and colleagues, from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES-CERCA).
According to the study report, the cave has been visited since the 12th century AD, and the region had previously been thought devoid of cave art. The 280 motifs make the Cova de la Font Major the third-largest Palaeolithic cave art assemblage on the Mediterranean side of the Iberian Peninsula, and the highest concentration of Palaeolithic parietal representations currently known in Catalonia. The researchers say the findings transform knowledge of Palaeolithic European art. This report states the published findings only, without commentary.
(Source: Phys.org research report, November 4, 2026; paper: Vergès Bosch et al., Antiquity (2026), DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10447)
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Photo: 西班牙 El Castillo 洞穴的旧石器时代岩画（资料图）。（Wikimedia Commons／CC BY 4.0）|Upper Paleolithic cave art in El Castillo Cave, Spain (file photo). (Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0)
