Researchers say the discovery is rare. Organic materials like string, often made from plant and animal products, typically do ...

Near a dry, red rock peninsula on Australia’s far western coast, a dusty highway separates two communities with contrasting fortunes tied to an ancient land. One is home to the small but booming city ...

A team of Australian scientists working in the country’s Balanggarra region say that a painting of a kangaroo on the ceiling of a sandstone rock shelter may be as many as 17,500 years old, which would ...

SYDNEY, May 28 (Reuters) - Australia’s bid to secure World Heritage status for a site with Indigenous rock art estimated to be 50,000 years old has been dealt a blow after a U.N. advisory body warned ...

In a devastating hit to global world heritage, vandals struck South Australia’s Koonalda Cave on on Nullarbor Plain, destroying 30,000-year-old artwork at the national heritage site. The cave is ...

At some 17,000 years old, it's the oldest painting yet discovered in Australia, scientists announced. The kangaroo was painted on the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter in the northeastern Kimberley ...

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A life size kangaroo painted in red ochre around 17,300 years ago is Australia’s oldest known rock art. This indicates that the earliest style of rock art in Australia focused on animals, similar to ...

Benjamin Smith receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Joakim Goldhahn receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Rock Art Australia. Paul S.C.Taçon receives funding from ...