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The oldest reliably dated unambiguous, in-situ rock art motif in Australia is a large painting of a macropod from a rock shelter in Western Australia's Kimberley region, radiometrically dated in a February 2021 study at approximately 17,300 years old. [10] Gwion Gwion rock art (the "Bradshaw rock paintings", also referred to as Giro Giro" [2 ...
Gwion Gwion (Tassel) figures wearing ornate costumes. The Gwion Gwion rock paintings, Gwion figures, Kiro Kiro or Kujon (also known as the Bradshaw rock paintings, Bradshaw rock art, Bradshaw figures and the Bradshaws) are one of the two major regional traditions of rock art found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The art is the oldest firmly dated rock painting in Australia. [7] However, radiocarbon dating of charcoal excavated from the base of the lowest stratigraphic layer of the floor returned a mean age of 45 180 ± 910 years cal BP suggesting the oldest date for the earliest human habitation. [1]
With some of the oldest rock art in Australia and a stone artifact typology stretching over 30 millennia, Puritjarra is a place in which many archeological excavations have taken place. It dates to at least 32,000 B.P. with findings from the Pleistocene into the Holocene. [4] The rock shelter has a sandy floor and a reliable water source nearby.
Wandjina rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station. The Wandjina, also written Wanjina and Wondjina and also known as Gulingi, are cloud and rain spirits from the Wanjina Wunggurr cultural bloc of Aboriginal Australians, depicted prominently in rock art in northwestern Australia.
There are no absolute ages for any of the rock art motifs at Madjedbebe. Instead, the art has been dated using relative techniques. This suggests that the majority of the art presented today was created in the last 1500 years, [28] though some motifs may be several thousand years old. It is highly likely that the tradition of painting in the ...
The oldest firmly dated rock-art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter in south western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date.
The oldest conclusive date for Panaramitee Style rock art belongs to Early Man cave with a minimum date range of 13,000 to 14,000 years before present. The art in the Laura region, although fitting within the Panaramitee Style, has been recognised as different to "Classic Panaramitee" styles, with differing proportions of motifs, perhaps ...