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The year 1908 would prove crucial in the study of cave art for one reason: the scientific discovery of cave paintings in the Roca del Moros del Cogul (les Garrigues).
The interest this discovery generated within the European scientific community turned these findings into the motor that stimulated research into the Iberian Peninsula’s cave art and one of the most important picture sequences in Catalonia and Europe. Roca dels Moros was declared UNESCO World Heritage in 1998.
The exhibition entitled A Sacred Place. The Roca dels Moros del Cogul, proposes a tour across the Peninsula’s prehistory through the paintings and carvings that compose the Roca del Moros picture sequence. It commemorates the 100th year of its discovery and explains the cave paintings’ various meanings: a unique art, found exclusively across the Mediterranean Basin in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France.
The exhibition was organised by MAC Barcelona in collaboration with the l'Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES) (Catalan Institute for Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution).
