The newly created computer program allowed archaeologists to “see” comparative differences in the rock art of the Wilton River region. The machine learning program analyzed rock art images taken by archaeologists from 2018 and 2019 in Marrku County.
Dr. Wesley of the Flinders University team explained, “In total, the computer saw more than 1000 different types of objects and learned to tell the difference between them just by looking at photos of them.”
One of the study’s main purposes was to analyze the evolution and chronology of known and newly discovered Australian rock art . The results were astonishing: the computer learned to process information that would have taken humans years to look through.