NationStates Jolt Archive

How sad that someone would commit arson and this would be the result. Some people are just plain (1) stupid (2) sick (3) self serving. :mad:

Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires -- some deliberately set -- in northwest Spain, officials said Friday.

Color paintings and carvings on rocks -- known as petroglyphs -- of wildlife and geometric patterns dating some 4,000 years, has been charred and blackened in fires in Campo Lameiro and Cotobade in northwestern Galicia, said local government spokeswoman Iria Mendez.

It is too early to determine if some of the art, considered national treasures, have been damaged beyond repair, Mendez said.

Hundreds of fires have raged through the heavily wooded northwestern corner of Spain in the last week, killing wildlife and roasting a countryside containing rare remains of early human habitation, such as the paintings.

Police have arrested 15 people this month -- nine in the last four days --

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/11/spain.fires.ap/index.html

How hard can it be to recreate stone age art?

Very. It takes at least 6,000 years for the ageing process to work.

That aside, I am sure that these are not the only wild fires (deliberately set or not) that that region has suffered since the art was done. So why is it being destroyed this time? I bet that it will come out the other side of the fire, needing a bit of a clean, but otherwise intact.

Very. It takes at least 6,000 years for the ageing process to work.

That aside, I am sure that these are not the only wild fires (deliberately set or not) that that region has suffered since the art was done. So why is it being destroyed this time? I bet that it will come out the other side of the fire, needing a bit of a clean, but otherwise intact.

eh give any 5 year old big rocks and finger paint and he'll do the stone age art.

How hard can it be to recreate stone age art?

Might be a bit difficult as most stone age people dies 4,000 years ago. :rolleyes:

How hard can it be to recreate stone age art?

It might look similar, but it would be like getting a talented artist to paint a Van Gogh that's been destroyed, and saying "sure, it's just the same" when people complain that it's not his work.

How hard can it be to recreate stone age art? Give any 5 year old big rocks and finger paint and he'll do the stone age art.
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

It's really sad that those carvings and paintings have survived so long only to be destroyed because of some "more civilized" people who probably couldn't even make fire my rubbing two sticks together. Makes me want to resort to "Stone Age" punishment: Smushed by mammoth!!!

You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

It's really sad that those carvings and paintings have survived so long only to be destroyed because of some "more civilized" people who probably couldn't even make fire my rubbing two sticks together. Makes me want to resort to "Stone Age" punishment: Smushed by mammoth!!!

Actually I can, I was in the BSA. and that stupid Mammoth will have to outsmart a .50 Cal first.

Darn blazes!

Probably they got burned now because they're more open to allow for public viewing and such. But that's just pure speculation on my part.

How hard can it be to recreate stone age art?

That made my laugh



Anyways, people are just strange these days.

Actually I can, I was in the BSA. and that stupid Mammoth will have to outsmart a .50 Cal first.
Not in the Stone Age, it won't, for all you have is but a stick and a stone! *squish*