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 ...

Ancient Aboriginal rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art detailing kangaroos, turtles and humans on boulders in the remote Pilbara ...

Archaeologists have discovered a new style of ancient Australian rock art that features unusual depictions of human and animal figures, seemingly living in harmony. The works from this ancient art ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, New South Wales (AFP) – Solving the mystery of how 900-year-old African coins ended up in remote Australia could not only recast the history of foreign contact Down Under, but shed light on ...

The public is being asked to comment on plans to protect what's been called the world's largest art gallery, a collection of ancient Aboriginal rock art on the Dampier Archipelago. Federal environment ...

In a recent study, the researchers theorized that Linear Naturalistic Figures found in western Australia reveal the ancient kinship between animals and humans. Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a ...

Australia, one of the largest producers of uranium on the planet, has just announced the discovery of a huge deposit that spreads under the Wellington mountain range. Unfortunately this mountain range ...

A hidden Murray River rockshelter speaks volumes about local Aboriginal and European settlement in the Riverland, with symbols of conflict - including a swastika symbol - discovered in Aboriginal rock ...

A systemic failure of policy over many decades has compromised southeastern Australia’s most valuable Aboriginal rock art, leading to neglect and failure to combat desecration of sacred sites.

The largest collection of ancient rock art in the world, located in the rugged northwest of Australia, should be entirely protected from industry, says a new report. The report on the archaeology and ...

“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 ...