Gwion Gwion rock art.Credit: John Borthwick Rock art is part of a human story-telling tradition. For Australia's Aborigines, whether they were painting on rock or bark, or with body paint (and ...

In a recent study, the researchers theorized that Linear Naturalistic Figures found in western Australia reveal the ancient ...

Mud wasp nests have helped establish a date for one of the ancient styles of Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley. University of Melbourne and ANSTO scientists put the Gwion Gwion art period ...

The dominant style from around 12,000 years ago, known as Gwion Gwion, features more human ... in photographs from the early 20th century. Rock art is important for the transmission of culture ...

An agile 77, Sam is now a director of an outfit researching the untold reserves of rock art here. “They're known as Gwion Gwion,” he explains. Gwion is the name of a bird that, according to ...

To white Australia, they're known as the Bradshaws - possibly the oldest known rock paintings in the world. To their traditional Aboriginal owners, the paintings are known as the Gwion Gwion.

The remote Kimberley region of northwest Australia is home to one of the world’s largest collections of rock art. The paintings are characterised by two distinct forms: the Gwion Gwion, or Bradshaw, ...

The Bradshaw rock paintings, or the Gwion Gwion figures, found in the north-west Kimberly region of West Australia have in the past been used to argue that Indigenous Australians were not the ...

That investigation dated the time since quartz particles in a mud wasp nest overlying a Gwion figure were last exposed to sunlight. But some rock art researchers disagree about whether that age ...

Walsh believed that no continuous link existed between the painting of the Gwion or Bradshaw period ... owners living and working today alongside rock art specialists have a cultural connection ...

Ancient rock art from the region is divided into two distinctive styles: Gwion and Wandjina. The Gwion rock-art style lasted some 10,000 years before the final image was painted. Wandjina ...