La Sarga Cave Paintings in Alcoy, Spain

Figures of hunters, animals, and geometric shapes decorate the walls of a series of gorges to the South of Alcoi (Alcoy), Spain. During the Neolithic era, the area was the domain of nomadic hunters. Several of the shallow caves are still marked with the 7,000-year-old cave paintings.

The shallow caves were never used as permanent housing. Instead, they were used as temporary shelters by hunters in pursuit of the game depicted on the cave walls. The caves were discovered in 1951, and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. Now, the caves are fenced off, but the paintings can still be seen on tours hosted by the Alcoy Archaeological Museum.