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Scientists have identified a life-size portrait of a kangaroo as Australia s oldest rock painting. The ancient art, described Monday in the journal Nature Human Behavior, is between 17,500 and 17,100 years old. Researchers dated the portrait, discovered in Western Australia s Kimberley region, by radiocarbon dating 27 mud wasp nests built under and over a collection of rock paintings. This is a significant find as through these initial estimates, we can understand something of the world these ancient artists lived in, lead study author Damien Finch said in a news release. The oldest complete rock painting in Australia is a portrait of a kangaroo! ....
PARIS, Feb 24 A kangaroo painting created over 17,000 years ago by Aboriginal artists has been identified with a little help from some ancient wasps as Australia’s oldest intact rock art. The two-metre-long (six-feet) artwork on the sloped ceiling of a rock shelter in Western. ....
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 t ....
Updated: The team dated 27 mud wasp nests around 16 different paintings from eight rock shelters Share Article AAA A montage of photographs of the 17,300-year-old kangaroo rock painting (left) and an illustration of the artwork (right). Credit: Damien Finch et al
The team dated 27 mud wasp nests around 16 different paintings from eight rock shelters A kangaroo painting created over 17,000 years ago by Aboriginal artists has been identified with a little help from some ancient wasps as Australia s oldest intact rock art. The two-metre-long (six-feet) artwork on the sloped ceiling of a rock shelter in Western Australia s Kimberley region was painted in an early naturalistic style, which often features life-sized renderings of animals, according to research published Monday. ....