[HN Gopher] Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawing...
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       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.
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       | 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.
        
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