Carvings in Stone

history channel documentary Carvings in Stone (Here, There and Everywhere): It's one thing to hack out a piece of stone, it's very another to cut multifaceted engravings, pictures, symbolic representations, and so on in strong rock - it's not exactly as simple as cutting you and your partners initials in a tree trunk! The fact is clearly to pass on some kind of important message to others. However, the same intention is refined, at far less exertion, by simply painting your pictures or symbolic representations, and so forth on the stone's surface. That less demanding street was regularly gone, for instance in ancient hole craftsmanship. My inquiry is the reason the simpler street wasn't generally voyaged. Almost all antiquated social orders, from Mesoamerica to old Egypt and the Middle East at any rate here and there, regularly more than just at times, took the harder street that ought to have been less gone for the love seat potato significant others of those times. Why?