Hundreds of years ago, in a cramped cave, Indigenous people in Australia painted a pair of watercraft whose origins have puzzled archaeologists since the artworks' discovery about 50 years ago. Now, a ...

A recent study conducted by Dr. Ana Paula Motta and her colleagues, in collaboration with the Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, has identified a new mid-to-late Holocene rock art style in ...

Archaeologist and anthropologist Sue Smalldon sits among ancient rocks at Deep Gorge on the Burrup peninsula in the north of Western Australia [File: Greg Wood/AFP] The United Nations cultural ...

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 ...

Multiple archaeologists and Indigenous art experts refuted posts online claiming to feature an Aboriginal painting depicting the Wandjina -- a rainmaker spirit -- in Western Australia. The image of a ...

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“All our stories are written on these stones,” says Corey Adams, a traditional Aboriginal custodian of the Murujuga land we are standing on in Western Australia. He is showing me around the densest ...

Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University Paul S.C.Taçon receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Andrea ...