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rock art

Noun

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rock art (uncountable)

Traditional artwork of Indigenous Australians, including paintings, drawings, engravings, stencils, bas-relief carvings, and beeswax figures, located in rock shelters and caves.

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Examples

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. Kevin Rudd

Rock art and a single fossil near Darwin point to a northern population, and remains in the southeast signify a southeastern population ranging from the mouth of the Murray River eastwards to the vicinity of Port Phillip in Victoria. Source: Internet

She collaborated with a Big Rock art teacher, Mary Beningo, on a book called “One Hungry Dragon.” Source: Internet

History main Rock art from the Laas Geel complex. Source: Internet

Prehistory Rock art at Balho The Djibouti area has been inhabited since at least the Neolithic. Source: Internet

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