Australia is blessed with many beautiful examples of Aboriginal cave paintings ... are very few people doing research on rock art." David says there are hand stencils in some limestone caves ...

he disputes that the rock art is fake. He also says that the hand stencils aside, the stone tools that he found and recorded, prove beyond a doubt that the shelter is an Aboriginal occupation site.

Like all Aboriginal art, cave and rock paintings are inseparable from the ... Power of observation and deftness of hand. These are precisely the qualities which he also needs as a hunter.

Archaeologists in Australia have identified a new Aboriginal rock art style in the country ... Stout Figures, (6) Painted Hand, (7) Wandjina, and (8) Contact Art The LNF style’s placement ...

The boss of an Aboriginal group responsible for land that contains ancient rock art has hit out at environmental activists, saying they have frustrated a bid for world heritage listing of the site ...

He is the Australian Research Council laureate fellow and Griffith University chair in rock art research. The paper describes the Maliwawa Figures as a missing link in the history of Aboriginal ...

When we talk about Australian Aboriginal painting ... Yes, indigenous Australians have been making art for millennia, painting on bodies and fabric and rock. But acrylic paint and canvas, the ...

But unlike other Aboriginal rock art depicting vessels that came from the Moluccas, including Macassan prahus (sailing boats that originated in Indonesia), these drawings have warlike features and ...

More information: Ana Paula Motta et al, Linear Naturalistic Figures: a new Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal rock art style from the northeast Kimberley, Australia, Australian Archaeology (2025 ...