From ABC (Australia):
Scientists discover new Aboriginal rock art site
Aboriginal rock art and artefacts that are thousands of years old have been discovered by a group of Queensland researchers.
The relics include an axe from the Stone Age and the researchers say some of the items are more than 4,000 years old.
Professor Paul Tacon says it is a major archaeological find.
“We were absolutely over the moon when we found all of these amazing sites in Wollemi National Park,” he said.
“This is the largest engraving site in the whole of the greater Blue Mountains or heritage areas and it’s got wonderful life-size depictions of animals and ancestral beings and human figures.”
Cuts in government funding threaten Wollemi art research.
Inside a large cave in northwestern Australia’s remote Kimberley region, someone painted an elongated, yamlike shape on a ceiling at least 16,000 years ago, new research suggests. That long-ago creation in the unnamed cavern adds fuel to the argument that rock art in Australia goes back even earlier to the continent’s first inhabitants, researchers contend: here.
Ancient Australian rock art threatened: here.
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