Australia’s oldest known Aboriginal rock paintings

Monday, Feb 22, 2021, 04:09 PM | Source: Pursuit

Damien Finch, Andy Gleadow, Janet Hergt, Helen Green, Pauline Heaney, Cecilia Myers, Peter Veth, Sam Harper, Sven Ouzman, Vladimir A. Levchenko

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Deep in a northeast Kimberley rock shelter on Balanggarra Country is a two metre-long rock painting of a kangaroo. This kangaroo is now Australia’s oldest known, intact Aboriginal rock painting.

The painting itself we have now dated to between 17,500 and 17,100 years old.