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Scientists date Australia's oldest rock shelter painting 23 Feb 2021 | 3 mins A multidisciplinary team of scientists from The University of Western Australia and The University of Melbourne, working with Aboriginal Traditional Owners, has successfully dated a 17,000 year old kangaroo rock painting in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The rock painting, found on the Unghango clan estate in Balanggarra Country in the north-eastern Kimberley, is the oldest known painting still on the wall of a rock shelter in Australia.The dating results were published in Dating the Aboriginal rock art...

The kangaroo painting is Australia's oldest known example of rock art, according to scientists.

READ MORE Dubbed the world's oldest-known cave art, the painting represented a 45,000-year-old life-size warty pig. Dr Sven Ouzman, from University Western Australia's School of Social Sciences, believes the latest discovery will help researchers better understand Australia's Indigenous history. He said: "This iconic kangaroo image is visually similar to rock paintings from islands in South East Asia dated to more than 40,000 years ago, suggesting a cultural link - and hinting at still older rock art in Australia." Cissy Gore-Birch, Chair of the Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, added: "It'...

Scientists dated the painting with the help of ancient wasp nests.

Researchers have used radiocarbon dating to determine that Australia's oldest known painting inside a rock shelter is 17,000-years-old.