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<< Other Photo Pages >> Los Escolares - Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain in Andalucía

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 19 November 2014  Page Views: 2563

Natural PlacesSite Name: Los Escolares
Country: Spain Region: Andalucía Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: La Carolina  Nearest Village: Santa Elena
Latitude: 38.342000N  Longitude: 3.54W
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
2 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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Los Escolares
Los Escolares submitted by bat400_photo : Rock art similar to Los Escolares near the town of Quesada in Spain's southern Andalusia region. Contrast and color enhanced by bat400_photo. Original File image: "YouTube/gualayriver" (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave or Rock Shelter in Jaén province, Andalucía. The paintings in Los Escolares Cave are estimated at 5000 years old. The cave was discovered 41 years ago. The cave is a small hole in the rock, about 1.5 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep. In the spring of 2014, the paintings were discovered in a badly damaged state, likely from an attempted theft.

It is a part of a huge caves ensemble of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The series of late prehistoric paintings in these caves provide an exceptional picture of human life in a seminal period of human cultural evolution, according to UNESCO. The images, depicting hunting activities, combats and executions, were mostly painted in red, black and white in the caves.

Jaen province has at least 42 UNESCO World Heritage sites and along with Cordoba, Almeria, Granada, Malaga and Cadiz, is considered one of the most important areas of prehistoric archaeology.

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Re: Thieves destroy ancient rock painting in Spain by aknifethatfellfromthesky on Monday, 24 November 2014
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heartbreaking.
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Thieves destroy ancient rock painting in Spain by bat400 on Saturday, 15 November 2014
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A 5,000 year-old rock painting in southern Spain has been destroyed by thieves who tried to steal the Unesco World Heritage-listed artwork by chipping it off the cave wall where it was housed.

Residents of the Santa Elena in Spain's southern Jaén province are reeling after news of the damage.

Local mayor Juan Caminero said the painting was now "irreparable" and condemned the act of vandalism as "heartless", Spanish daily La Vanguardia reported on Monday.

News of the attempted theft first emerged on Saturday after visitors to the Los Escolares Cave noticed the damage to the zoomorphic painting of a person resembling a swallow.

After noticing what looked like evidence of someone having tried to chip away at the image with a pick, they spotted fine dust and rock fragments on the floor.

Police are now investigating the incident.

Jaén province is home to 42 sites with UNESCO-listed rock paintings, many of them freely accessible to the public and without not properly protected, according to the Speleology Federation of Andalusia (Fae).

These paintings are part of a significant group of several hundred sites along Spain's Mediterranean seaboard, and are the largest group of rock sites in Europe, according to Unesco.

"A lot of these places are abandoned and need greater supervision," Fae president José Antonio Berrocal told The Local.

"Although there is legislation protecting these sites in theory, there is a lack of political will," he added.
"Obviously you can't have policemen stationed in every cave, but we need a system of continuous monitoring with officers coming around periodically to monitor the situation," the cave expert explained.
"In some cases, closing off those caves may be the only option to protect world heritage paintings," he added.

The Spanish rock sites display "a critical phase of human development...in paintings whose style and subject matter are unique," Unesco says on its website.
Thanks to coldrum for the story: Source: http://www.thelocal.es
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