The Santa Elena City Council (Jaén) has condemned this “act of vandalism” on social media.
The most emblematic cave paintings in the natural park of Despeñaperros (Jaén), in southern Spain, called Las Sacerdotisas and declared a World Heritage Site, have been sprayed with pink, in an act of vandalism.
The City Council of Santa Elena (Jaén) has condemned, in social networks, this “act of vandalism” and has requested 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 it will act “in an 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, in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
The motifs painted in a vertical isolation of the rock at 1.50 meters from the ground are two triangular anthropomorphic with an ocular headdress and a third two-triangular with raised hands next to a schematic deer with a large antler in dark red.
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 shelters 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, in the Andalusian community, which in 1998 were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. (I)
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