The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts a macropod. (Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) The maliwawa image collected ...

Archaeologists have discovered a new style of ancient Australian rock art that features unusual depictions of human and animal figures, seemingly living in harmony. The works from this ancient art ...

A project, supported by the Australian Geographic Society, is using X-rays to uncover hidden Aboriginal rock art. WHEN AN ARTEFACT must be destroyed in order to reveal the secrets it holds, you might ...

Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a macropod along with digital outline (© Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation and Kimberley Visions; all photos courtesy Ana Paula Motta) Archaeologists in Australia ...

SYDNEY, New South Wales (AFP) – Solving the mystery of how 900-year-old African coins ended up in remote Australia could not only recast the history of foreign contact Down Under, but shed light on ...

Fanciful human figures adorning rock-shelters in western Australia’s Kimberley region have often been assumed to date back 17,000 years or more. In a stinging rebuke of that idea, a new study suggests ...

Australia, one of the largest producers of uranium on the planet, has just announced the discovery of a huge deposit that spreads under the Wellington mountain range. Unfortunately this mountain range ...

A hidden Murray River rockshelter speaks volumes about local Aboriginal and European settlement in the Riverland, with symbols of conflict - including a swastika symbol - discovered in Aboriginal rock ...

A systemic failure of policy over many decades has compromised southeastern Australia’s most valuable Aboriginal rock art, leading to neglect and failure to combat desecration of sacred sites.

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“The Dreaming” isn’t quite the right way to put it. For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the Dreaming was a period when giants walked the earth, forming the landscape as we know it through their ...

In a recent study, the researchers theorized that Linear Naturalistic Figures found in western Australia reveal the ancient kinship between animals and humans. Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a ...