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Helen Green, Andrew Gleadow, Damien Finch, Cecilia Myers, Jenna McGovern

Journal article  |  2021  |  Geoarchaeology

Micro-stromatolitic laminations and the origins of engraved, oxalate-rich accretions from Australian rock art shelters

Helen Green, Andrew Gleadow, Damien Finch, Cecilia Myers, Jenna McGovern

Journal article  |  2021  |  GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

Distinctive, dark-coloured, glaze-like mineral accretions are common on low-angle surfaces in sandstone rock shelters in the Kimbe..

Dating correlated microlayers in oxalate accretions from rock art shelters: New archives of paleoenvironments and human activity

Helen Green, Andrew Gleadow, Vladimir A Levchenko, Damien Finch, Cecilia Myers, Jenna McGovern, Pauline Heaney, Robyn Pickering

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENCE ADVANCES

Oxalate-rich mineral accretions, often found in rock shelters around the world, offer important opportunities for radiocarbon dati..

Determining the origin and changing shape of landscape-scale rock formations with three-dimensional modelling: The Borologa rock shelters, Kimberley region, Australia

Kim Genuite, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Bruno David, Augustine Unghango, Gael Cazes, Reka Fulop, David Fink, Alexandru Codilean, Sven Ouzman, Peter Veth, Sam Harper, Helen Green, Damien Finch, Chris Urwin

Journal article  |  2021  |  GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

Archaeologists often wonder how and when rock shelters formed, yet their origins and antiquity are almost never systematically inv..

Ages for Australia's oldest rock paintings

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

Journal article  |  2021  |  Nature Human Behaviour

Naturalistic depictions of animals are a common subject for the world’s oldest dated rock art, including wild bovids in Indonesia ..

Investigating the Anthropic Construction of Rock Art Sites Through Archaeomorphology: the Case of Borologa, Kimberley, Australia

Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Bruno David, Kim Genuite, Robert Gunn, Damien Finch, Sven Ouzman, Helen Green, Peter Veth, Sam Harper, Robert J Skelly

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY

Archaeologists usually see, and understand, rock shelters as taphonomically active, but pre-existing, physical structures onto whi..

12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia

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

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENCE ADVANCES

The Kimberley region in Western Australia hosts one of the world's most substantial bodies of indigenous rock art thought to exten..

Radiocarbon dating of Kimberly rock art

Damien Geoffrey Finch

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2020

Throughout the world, ancient rock art records some of the earliest attempts at complex human communication. However, constraining..

New developments in the radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests

Damien Finch, Andrew Gleadow, Janet Hergt, Vladimir A Levchenko, David Fink

Journal article  |  2019  |  QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY

This paper reports on the development of radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests to provide age estimates for rock art and other anth..

Characterisation of mineral deposition systems associated with rock art in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia

Helen Green, Andrew Gleadow, Damien Finch

Journal article  |  2017  |  DATA IN BRIEF

This data article contains mineralogical and chemical data from mineral accretions sampled from rock art shelters in the Kimberley..