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Natural rockface or tribal sculpture? Peru and US’s Hunt Oil don’t care


Natural rockface or tribal sculpture? Peru and US’s Hunt Oil don’t care
The recent “rediscovery” of the “Harakbut Face” in the Amazon raises fears about gas exploration.

David Hill
Fri 8 May 2015 11.17 EDT

Do you see what that man in the photo above sees in the rock in front of him? That’s what some Harakbut indigenous people call the “Rostro Harakbut” - the “Harakbut Face” - located in a spectacular, super-remote part of the south-east Peruvian Amazon.

Is the “Rostro” natural - whatever that means really - or has it been sculpted, or does that even matter? Is it true it was effectively “rediscovered” by someone working for a firm contracted by US-based company Hunt Oil which was cutting seismic lines through the area and detonating 1000s of explosives underground? Just how important is the “Rostro” to the Harakbuts, and can its existence help them to protect their wonderful forests and rivers from gold-miners and gas exploration by Hunt?

Tom Bewick, from the Rainforest Foundation US, also visited with Redman. He told the Guardian he thinks the “Rostro” was sculpted because:

There are no other rocks remotely similar in shape in that river valley. . . [It] is perched perfectly overlooking a valley, and presides over a waterfall and a basin that resembles an amphitheater. . . There are markings all over [it] that indicate it was hacked out with rudimentary tools. . . There are actually two Rostros - a Rostro within a Rostro - look below the nose. . . The boulders along the river are arranged in a way to channel the flow away from hitting the [Rostro’s] face directly, and in a way that would make it impossible for the face formation to have been caused by impact from even the heaviest of storms. . . The Harakbut don’t have a written history, but claim the Rostro has been in their oral history for generations and generations.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2015/may/08/natural-rockface-tribal-sculpture-hunt-oil-peru