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17,300-year-old Kimberley kangaroo becomes Australia s oldest rock artwork

Scientists have confirmed that a painting of a kangaroo in a sandstone rock shelter in Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region is about 17,300 years old, making it the oldest known rock art in Australia. The faded image, which is about two metres long, was dated using a radiocarbon technique that analysed wasp nests that were underneath and on top of the ochre-based paint. Augustine Unghango, a Balanggarra man and traditional owner of the.

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.

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