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BBC Radio 5 Live “Up all night” – a ~10 minute live radio talk with Nick Garnett. The date of the art work published today in the journal Science Advances, is based on radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests. Gwion paintings in the Kimberley were created around 12,000 years ago, wasp nests suggest. Nick Garnett speaks with Damien

Enigmatic human figures with elaborate headdresses, arm and waist decorations adorn rock shelters in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This style of art, known as Gwion, Kiro Kiro or Kujon, was painted by the ancestors of today’s traditional owners around 12,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The Gwion Gwion paintings were created by

PETER WILMOTH NOV 6, 2019 This story first appeared in Domain.  It is reproduced here with a minor correction. Our earliest story is told on the walls of rocks in the Kimberley, in northern Western Australia, and in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The rock art painted by Aboriginal people thousands of years ago is

A team of archaeologists led by The University of Western Australia, in partnership with Traditional Owners, has discovered that the remote Drysdale River catchment in Western Australia’s northern Kimberley region has one of the earliest and securely dated sites for Aboriginal occupation in the North West at 50,000 years ago. The site also has evidence