Description

Rock art is a vital part of Aboriginal culture in Australia and offers a window through time as to how humans lived and thought on this continent from the earliest period of human habitation around 65,000 years ago. People created paintings, drawings, engravings, stencils, bas-relief carvings, and figures made of beeswax in rock shelters and caves throughout the continent and surrounding islands. Filled with history, beliefs, and important events, each discovery tells a story written by the first inhabitants.