Australia new style of ancient rock art found

[Still Waters]

It's no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we're still finding more. 

An entirely new style of ancient art has now been documented dotting the vast wilderness of Arnhem Land, a historical region in the continent's north.

From Awunbarna (also known as Mount Borradaile) all the way to the Namunidjbuk clan estate of the Wellington Range, scientists and local Aboriginal research partners have found 87 rock shelters housing unusually tall cave paintings, some of which are larger than life. 

"Human figures are frequently depicted with animals," says anthropologist Paul Taçon, "especially macropods, and these animal-human relationships appear to be central to the artists' message."

https://www.sciencealert.com/whole-new-style-of-ancient-australian-cave-art-shows-nature-and-humans-in-harmony

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Maliwawa figures—a previously undescribed Arnhem L and rock art style

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2020.1818361?

 

[Piney]

Indigenous Australians. 

Keepers of the oldest and most accurate oral history in the world.