The medicine container was found in a painted rock shelter. A radio carbon date of the horn container places it at around AD 1461-1630.
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Indigenous artists have been engraving rock shelters for millennia - long before the Kimberley’s celebrated rock art paintings. Now the rocks’ natural coatings are yielding clues to the engravings’ creation.
More than 500 paintings at 87 rock shelters provide a remarkable glimpse into past Aboriginal life.
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
