The most emblematic cave paintings of the Despeñaperros natural park (Jaén), called Las Sacerdotisas and declared a World Heritage Site, have been sprayed with pink spray.
The City Council of Santa Elena (Jaén) has condemned, in social networks, this “act of vandalism” and has asked for citizen collaboration to “try to find who has committed this terrible act.”
The Junta de Andalucía has also condemned “the attack against the historical heritage that cave painting has suffered”, and assures that will act “emergency to try to recover its original state with restoration technicians and archaeologists “.
The Neolithic site where the paintings are found is located on the Cerro de los Órganos, within the limits of the Despeñaperros Natural Park.
The motifs painted in a vertical isolation of the rock at 1.50 meters from the ground They are two triangular anthropomorphs with eye-type headdresses and a third bi-triangular with raised hands next to a schematic deer with large dark red antlers. It is one of the most attractive groups in schematic art and represents a ritual dance of the deer hunt.
It is not the first time that the cave paintings in the area have suffered vandalism, since in 2014 those of the Cueva de los Escolares, also in Santa Elena, suffered serious damage when they were bitten with hammers to try to take them away.
These coats are part of the set of 69 prehistoric rock art sites of the Levantine and schematic styles located in the mountains of Jaén, Granada and Almería, which in 1998 were declared by Unesco World Heritage.
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