Hundreds of years ago, in a cramped cave, Indigenous people in Australia painted a pair of watercraft whose origins have puzzled archaeologists since the artworks' discovery about 50 years ago. Now, a ...

Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a macropod along with digital outline (© Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation and Kimberley Visions; all photos courtesy Ana Paula Motta) Archaeologists in Australia ...

Australia’s bid to get the Burrup Peninsula on the World Heritage List has been knocked back by UNESCO, a draft decision has revealed. The peninsula in Western Australia’s north is home to between one ...

“All our stories are written on these stones,” says Corey Adams, a traditional Aboriginal custodian of the Murujuga land we are standing on in Western Australia. He is showing me around the densest ...

Humans have been painting on rocks and in caves for tens of thousands of years. Some of the oldest rock art made by people could be as much as 73,000 years old, while the oldest cave art has been ...

Perfectly preserved rock art site reveals 1,700 years of Aboriginal string craft by Lynley Wallis, Christine Musgrave, Heather Burke, Roseanne George, The Conversation edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed ...

The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an exhibition at the Asia Society. By Arthur Lubow The Aboriginal art of northeast ...

On a remote peninsula in Western Australia, a 16-hour drive from the nearest city, 30,000-year-old faces stare at the rare visitor to this wild location. Those human depictions are part of Murujuga, ...