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Oldest-known Australian rock art is 17,300-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley, wasp nests show

As far as Australian icons go, it’s hard to look past the kangaroo. Now it turns out the quintessential macropod is also the subject of Australia’s oldest-known rock painting.
Key points:
- For the first time, traditional owners and researchers dated Australian paintings in the “naturalistic” style to between 17,000 and 13,000 years ago
- They extracted charcoal from fossilised wasp nests under and atop paint to calculate the minimum and maximum ages of the artworks
- The rock art, which is in the Kimberley, feeds into a bigger story that paints a picture of societal and cultural change
The 17,300-year-old roo, portrayed in dark mulberry paint on the ceiling of a rock shelter in the Kimberley, is one of a suite of animal depictions — and the odd…
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