But unlike other Aboriginal rock art depicting vessels that came from ... drawings have warlike features and "display triangular flags, pennants, and prow adornments indicating martial status ...

Aboriginal rock art is dotted throughout the vast nation, much of it undocumented, and some have speculated that the images could date back 45,000 years.

"Many archaeologists have thought rock art has been a part of Aboriginal culture since earliest times... but it's an inference." Pillans and colleague Keith Fifield have argued that rocks bearing ...

(Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) PARIS (AFP) — A kangaroo painting created over 17,000 years ago by Aboriginal artists has been identified — with a little help from some ancient wasps — ...

Aboriginal elders call the ancient paintings and engravings that dot the landscape their history books. But while Australia has some of the world's most outstanding and abundant rock art ...

Archaeologists in Australia have identified a new Aboriginal rock art style in the country’s western territory that dates back to the mid-to-late Holocene age, around 7,000 to 5,000 years ago.

a traditional Aboriginal custodian of the Murujuga land we are standing on in Western Australia. He is showing me around the densest collection of ancient rock art in the world – more than 2 ...

Woodside is planning to expand in the Burrup Peninsula, home to some of the world's oldest rock art ... Blurton lays an Aboriginal flag on the floor of the gallery. "This painting is barely ...