[Stones] So, is this what some think of our heritage?

[littlestone]

Sorry Nancy, but the paintings at Lascaux are not art - they're cave paintings, done for who-knows-what reason, but certainly not for artistic ones.

If we're going to apply modern interpretations to ancient paintings (or structures) there's no end to the mischief we might get up to. How Stonehenge has been perceived down the centuries is a perfect example of how people have misinterpreted the structure. Even the great man Stukeley himself was guilty of such misinterpretation and fell into the same trap with in his perception of Avebury and Stonehenge as 'Temples of the British Druids'. Silbury, meanwhile, was tunnelled into as recently as 1968 because it was thought to contain a tomb - we're still paying the price today (in terms of structural damage to the structure) for those tunnels and that misinterpretation.
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