An archaeologist says he has found the oldest piece of rock art in Australia and one of the oldest in the world: an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago in an outback cave.
The dating of one of the thousands of images in the Northern Territory rock shelter, known as Nawarla Gabarnmang, will be published in the next edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science.
The archaeologist Bryce Barker, from the University of Southern Queensland, said he found the rock in June last year but had only recently had it dated at the radiocarbon laboratory of New Zealand's University of Waikato.
He said the rock art had been made using charcoal, so radiocarbon dating could be used to determine its age; most rock art is made with mineral paint, so its age cannot accurately be measured.
Barker said the work was "the oldest unequivocally dated rock art in Australia" and among the oldest in the world.
The oldest known rock art is in Spain, where hand stencils and red discs made by blowing paint on to the wall in El Castillo cave are at least 40,800 years old, according to scientists using a technique known as uranium-thorium dating.
Sally May, an archeologist from the Australian National University who is not involved with Barker's research, said his find was "incredibly significant".
"I don't think it will surprise anyone that rock art is that old in Australia because we know people have been here a lot longer than that, and there's no reason to believe they weren't producing art," she said.
Barker said he had found evidence that the cave where he found the rock art had been occupied for 45,000 years.
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Aborigine art among oldest ever found - The Sun
The charcoal piece, discovered at a remote site in Australia, is some of the earliest evidence of human painting.
The Aboriginal artwork was found last June in Arnhem Land in the country's Northern Territory but was dated only recently by experts from New Zealand’s University of Waikato radiocarbon laboratory.
The piece was discovered by Bryce Barker from the University of Southern Queensland.
Mr Barker said: “The discovery shows Australian Aboriginal people were responsible for some of the earliest examples of rock art on the planet.”
The world’s oldest confirmed rock art was found in Spains El Castillo caves, which were dated to 40,800 years ago last week.
Before that, the oldest was thought to be the Chavet caves in France, carbon-dated to 35,000 years old.
Barker said he was confident the Arnhem Land rock art would come to be seen as significant as the French and Spanish sites.
He said: “Now we’ve got this, and we are sure we’ll push the age back (of Australian rock art) in the future.
“It puts Aboriginal people up there as among the most advanced people in human evolution.
"Some of the earliest achievements by modern humans were happening in this country.”
Some scientists have said that Australian rock art went back 45,000 years, but Barker said that date is unproven. He said this new discovery has been “unequivocally dated”.
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This New DARK KNIGHT RISES Artwork Is Totally Epic - Shockya.com
Here’s some really cool fan-made artwork featuring Bane from the upcoming film “The Dark Knight Rises” by director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento) stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, Terminator Salvation, The 13 Women of Nanjing), Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Get Smart, Alice in Wonderland, The Silver Linings Playbook), Tom Hardy (Inception, RocknRolla, Bronson), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Elektra Luxx, 3rd Rock from the Sun), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight, Se7en), Gary Oldman (The Professional, The Fifth Element) and Michael Caine (Cars 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inception, Harry Brown).
Synopsis: Every hero has a journey. Every journey has an end. Christopher Nolan returns to complete the epic Gotham trilogy that launched with Batman Begins and reached the stratosphere with the billion-dollar blockbuster The Dark Knight. Inception’s Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levett join the cast regulars along with Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle and Tom Hardy as the powerful villain Bane, while Oscar winner Christian Bale prowls the night as the Caped Crusader, fighting crime and corruption with the help of Michael Cane, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman.
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Streets are picture of success after installation of artworks - yorkshirepost
efforts to brighten up a town centre with reproduction artwork have been given a boost after new pieces were fixed to prominent buildings by council workers.
The Gallery Town project started in September last year, with Rotherham Council saying the idea would help to regenerate the town centre and increase the number of visitors.
By the end of this month, more than 90 pieces of artwork will have been put up around the town, with the latest appearing on the side of the Corn Law Rhymer pub, in High Street.
The work, by French Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat, is entitled Bathers at Asnieres and joins pieces both by other world-famous artists and local painters.
Nick Cragg, a Rotherham businessman who has helped to organise the project along with officers from the council, said: “There is a definite link between art, culture and regeneration.
This is an exciting time for the Gallery Town project and for Rotherham town centre with recent figures showing a continued increase in shopper footfall.
“Along with new shops and high profile events, in the town centre I’m confident that the artwork has played a part in bringing more people in, improving Rotherham’s vibrancy and economic vitality.
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