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<< Text Pages >> Cueva de Chaves - Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain in Aragón

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Natural PlacesSite Name: Cueva de Chaves
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 6.406 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Aragón Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Huesca
Latitude: 42.225638N  Longitude: 0.149853W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Tycoon jailed for letting goats wreck neolithic cave by davidmorgan on Monday, 14 November 2016
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A Spanish mining magnate has been fined more than €25 million and sentenced to 30 months in prison for destroying a cave that held evidence of how humans lived in neolithic times.

Victorino Alonso ordered the Cueva de Chaves in northeastern Spain to be prepared for use by a mining company, a judge ruled. He turned part of the archaeological site into a hunting ground and allowed goats to be kept inside the cave.

After a nine-year case, a judge at a court in Huesca ordered Alonso to pay €25.5 million in fines after he was convicted of damaging the national heritage. It is one of the toughest sentences handed down in a case of this kind.

The Cueva de Chaves was discovered in the 1970s and is said to be one of the most important sites in Europe dating back to neolithic times, about 10,000BC. Archaeologists said that the area provided an opportunity to study how humans lived in the new stone age with a 6,000-year-old burial site and carvings.

In 2007, Mr Alonso, whose company owned the land, sent in diggers to clear an area which had only been partly explored by archaeologists. Without informing the authorities, he prepared the area for the use of his company, Fimbas, the court ruled.

He also wanted to keep goats there and work done to prepare it as a hunting ground.

When police inspected the caves in 2009 they found a “painful and grotesque sight” with goats defecating all over the caves and much of the area destroyed by animals.

Juan Luis Arsuaga, an archaeological expert, told the court: “There is no doubt that the Cueva de Chaves was considered the most pure example of a deposit from the neolithic era not only in the Iberian peninsula but in Europe.”

Pilar Villellas, of the People’s Action for the Defence of the National Heritage, said that the sentence sent out a message about the importance of defending Spain’s national heritage.

Alonso denied the charges, saying that he had not given the order to make changes to the caves. He is to appeal against his conviction.

Source: The Times
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