Researching, preserving and
promoting Kimberley rock art.
The Melbourne University Dating team recently travelled to the Kimberley for a week of ‘wet season’ fieldwork. This year’s ‘wet’ was one of the biggest on record and presented a terrific opportunity for researchers to better understand the impact of the humidity and drenching rain on rock art. Visiting
A rock art researcher, Ana Paula Motta, has been awarded the prestigious Forrest Research Foundation Scholarship. It is the first time this Scholarship has been awarded to a scholar of the Social Sciences. Ana will be based at the UWA’s Centre for Rock Art Research and Management (CRAR+M) while she
Artefacts in Kakadu national park have been dated between 65,000 and 80,000 years old, extending likely occupation of area by thousands of years. The Guardian. 20 July 2017.
New excavations of a rock shelter near Kakadu National Park indicate humans reached Australia at least 65,000 years ago — up to 18,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously thought. Science News – ABC News July 2017
KFA_GoodWeekend Janet Hawley Sept 2010
Scientific error written in stone. Errors at heart of CSIRO advice could threaten 30,000 years of art history article by Marcus Strom Sunday Age 12/2/17 Read more.
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