Australian Rock Art Gallery
A selection of rock engravings (Petroglyphs) and drawings (pictographs) from some of the estimated 100,000 significant rock art sites around Australia. Rock art is oldest surviving human art form and an integral part of Aboriginal life and customs, dating back to the earliest times of human settlement on the continent.
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Photographer galleries/nick rains photography/wandjina figure rock shelter
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Petroglyph on greenstone, granite of Archaean age, of unknown origin
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Aboriginal cave paintings in rock shelter - Gwion Gwion rock art (formerly called Bradshaw)
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Aboriginal cave paintings in rock shelter, Gwion Gwion rock art (formerly called Bradshaw)
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Aboriginal rock art: running men wearing head decorations and elbow ornaments, carrying double-pronged spears
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Aboriginal cave paintings in rock shelter - Gwion Gwion rock art (formerly called Bradshaw)
Aboriginal cave paintings in rock shelter - Gwion Gwion rock art (formerly called Bradshaw). These dynamic line figures wearing ornaments and headdresses and carrying boomerangs and other weapons are believed to be the oldest figurative art in Australia. Some of the rock art in north-western Australia has yielded a minimum age in excess of 20 000 years. It is by far the oldest human art in the southern hemisphere and may be among the most ancient in the world. In this category are ant-like charcoal paintings now known as Gwion Gwion figures, like this one sealed by a silica desert varnish into the walls of a rock shelter. Modern Aborigines disclaim authorship of such art and say that it was done by Dreamtime spirits. Manning Gorge, Kimberley region, Western Australia
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Rock engravings of human figures with headdresses, probably over 10 000 years old
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Lightning Man (Storm-maker) (right), also three Barramundi: X-ray spirit figures
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Lightning man, Namarrgun, maker of storms; head and elbow attachments are stone axes for thunder
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Aboriginal rock art: X-ray style paintings including depiction of a Barramundi
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Rock art: painting of the Rainbow Serpent, source of life, also of water-snake fertility
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Pecked engravings on an exposed surface, believed to be at least 8000 years old
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Pecked engraving of a kangaroo believed to be at least 8000 years old
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Pecked engraving of an emu believed to be at least 8000 years old
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Pecked engravings including human figures and boomerangs
Pecked engravings including human figures and boomerangs on an exposed surface, believed to be at least 8000 years old. Mutawintji National Park, land of Malyankapa and Pandjikali Aboriginal people, western New South Wales, Australia
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Aboriginal rock paintings of figures with enormous headdresses or hats
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Rock art in Thaaklatjika overhang or Wrights Cave
Rock art in Thaaklatjika overhang or Wrights Cave, with initials of a 19th century visitor in a blue triangle overlying the much older work of the Malyankapa and Pandjikali Aboriginal people. That visitor, William Wright, was the leader of the back-up party for the Burke and Wills expedition. Mutawintji National Park, land of Malyankapa and Pandjikali Aboriginal people, western New South Wales, Australia
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Rock art: at the top, Namondjok, a creation ancestor who with his sister broke kinship laws; later he became Ginga
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