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Scientists date Australia s oldest rock shelter painting
23 Feb 2021 | 3 mins
A multidisciplinary team of scientists from The University of Western Australia and The University of Melbourne, working with Aboriginal Traditional Owners, has successfully dated a 17,000 year old kangaroo rock painting in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The rock painting, found on the Unghango clan estate in Balanggarra Country in the north-eastern Kimberley, is the oldest known painting still on the wall of a rock shelter in Australia.The dating results were published in
Dating the Aboriginal rock art sequence of the Kimberley in NW Australia.
Researchers are aiming to develop a time scale for Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley.UWA archaeologists Sven Ouzman, Peter Veth and Sam Harper are working in partnership with Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation and the Kimberley Land Council, and dating specialists from the Universities of Melbourne, Wollongong, Manchester and the Australian Nati