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