Two painted watercraft at the Awunbarna rock art site in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, do not match the trepang-fishing ...

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 ...

Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art is at risk of being damaged or destroyed because it sits at the epicentre of the country's resources boom, experts say. The etchings of men and animals ...

Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a macropod along with digital outline (© Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation and Kimberley Visions; all photos courtesy Ana Paula Motta) Archaeologists in Australia ...

The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts a macropod. (Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) The maliwawa image collected ...

A project, supported by the Australian Geographic Society, is using X-rays to uncover hidden Aboriginal rock art. WHEN AN ARTEFACT must be destroyed in order to reveal the secrets it holds, you might ...

Fanciful human figures adorning rock-shelters in western Australia’s Kimberley region have often been assumed to date back 17,000 years or more. In a stinging rebuke of that idea, a new study suggests ...

“The Dreaming” isn’t quite the right way to put it. For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the Dreaming was a period when giants walked the earth, forming the landscape as we know it through their ...