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Australia s oldest known rock art is a 17,000-year-old kangaroo

Scientists discover kangaroo painted more than 17,000 years ago is Australia s oldest rock painting

Scientists discover kangaroo painted more than 17,000 years ago is Australia s oldest rock painting
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Wasps reveal age of Australia s oldest-known rock paintings

Wasps reveal age of Australia’s oldest-known rock paintings We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement In a network of rock shelters along the Kimberley, right at the tip of Western Australia, there are paintings thousands of years old. A gallery of echidnas, goannas, fish, yams, hand prints, silhouettes, stencilled boomerangs and lots of kangaroos. They share a style: life-sized and realistic recreations of the things the artist saw in their day-to-day lives on the land of the Balanggarra traditional owners. Traditional owner Ian Waina inspects a painting of a kangaroo that is more than 12,700 years old.

Australia s oldest rock painting is 17,000-year-old picture of jumping kangaroo

A large cave painting depicting a jumping kangaroo has been shown to be more than 17,000 years old, making it Australia’s oldest intact rock painting. The age of the ancient work of art was determined through a new technique in which 27 mud wasp nests, collected from over and under 16 similar paintings, were radiocarbon dated. The research by a team from the University of Melbourne confirmed the painting is between 17,500 and 17,100 years old..

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