In a paper published today in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from The University of Melbourne and The University of Western Australia use a pioneering, AuScope enabled radiocarbon dating technique to date the artwork as being between 17,500 and 17,100 years old — making it Australia’s oldest known in-situ rock painting.
Read MoreA new simulation offers a different view of how the continents we live on drifted into their current configuration.
Read MoreThe landscape of eastern Australia is dotted with hundreds of extinct volcanoes. They gave rise to an environment to which Aboriginal people have been connected for tens of thousands of years, and the rich soils upon which modern Australia has grown in the last few hundred years.
Read MoreOur responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically changed human activity all over the world. People are working from home, schools are closed in many places, travel is restricted, and in some cases only essential shops and businesses are open.
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