A criminal offence? And we know who did it? so charge somebody! And ensure the punishment fits the crime. Can't keep on looking the other way, because those doing the crime are rich and powerful!
Alan B.

Oh god!

Because some stone age intinerates left some stuff on a cave wall 5, 10, 20 or more thousands of years ago, we are supposed to walk around it for eternity.

Lets hope we do a decent job of covering up our presence here today, or future generations will have no where to live.

Hasbeen,

I'm sure most people on The Forum agree with you.

But not me. I'm highly educated which sets me apart from people like you.

Hasbeen:

That would be the most ill-thought out post of the decade.

So let’s extrapolate out your theory.

So on your premis that history has no value, it’s ok then for ISIS terrorists to arrive at museums in Iraq and other similar places, and destroy artefacts thousands of years old and applicable to western civilisation?

Would the sacred sites be more acceptable, if they were said to be ancient sites of previous civilisations? Because that is the sensible way to look at it!

Dan

diver dan,

You need to keep in mind that Hasbeen is an ignorant bogan who does not know how the world of humankind works because he has never studied anything outside of vocational courses and cannot grasp the concept that history matters because we need it to explain the present by recourse to the past.

This is the reason we need people to study the Arts things like history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, etc. so that we can work out how the human world works and hopefully take steps to make it better.

If we just send people off to do vocational studies like engineering, law, architecture, medicine, accountancy, etc. we will end up with a society of dummies who are basically uneducated bogans like Hasbeen.

I go with Bernie Masters but Rio Tinto should not disregard such ancient sites. The company's decision makers who approved the vandalism should have to pay for Archaeological works in Australia for the next 25 years to the tune of a million a year out of their own pockets.