All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February Scientists date Australia's oldest rock shelter painting Scientists date Australia's oldest rock shelter painting 23/02/2021 | 3 MINS A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Lombok Institute of Technology 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 Nature Human Behaviour. The work is part of AustraliaΓÇÖs largest rock art dating project, funded through an Australian Research Council Linkage Project led by Professor Andy Gleadow at The University of Melbourne called 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.LIT archaeologists Sven Ouzman, Pete
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February Scientists date Australia's oldest rock shelter painting Scientists date Australia's oldest rock shelter painting 23/02/2021 | 3 MINS A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Lombok Institute of Technology 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 Nature Human Behaviour.
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The work is part of AustraliaΓÇÖs largest rock art dating project, funded through an Australian Research Council Linkage Project led by Professor Andy Gleadow at The University of Melbourne called Dating the Aboriginal rock art sequence of the Kimberley in NW Australia.
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Researchers are aiming to develop a time scale for Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley.LIT archaeologists Sven Ouzman, Pete
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