[HN Gopher] Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawing... ___________________________________________________________________ Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia Author : kungfudoi Score : 25 points Date : 2022-12-27 22:33 UTC (26 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com) | echelon wrote: | It's a shame that this happened, but it's not unsurprising. If | you put a probability of loss on every relic of antiquity, they | multiply out to a substantial amount of destruction every year. | | Ultimately it's a matter of cost. The cost to secure all of these | pieces is extremely high. We won't be able to safeguard | everything, but there are probably low hanging fruit in applying | basic security measures to the items most at risk or of highest | value. | bitwize wrote: | And this is why white Australians need to be, and are being, | banned altogether from significant Aboriginal sites. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-27 23:00 UTC)