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An Australian Aboriginal rock art may depict a giant bird that is thought to have become extinct some 40,000 years ago, thereby making it the oldest rock painting on the island continent.

ANCIENT rock art is slowly being rediscovered within Jawoyn land. In May this year, an internationally -acclaimed archaeological team spent ten days digging and documenting a small portion of a rock art complex called Gabarnmung (Barra Site).

A group of Jawoyn Traditional Owners including Margaret Katherine and Sybil Ranch together with Jawoyn CEO Preston Lee and Nitmiluk Tours Chairman Wes Miller will soon visit the Monash University labs to review the results from the carbon dating process and to see for themselves all the finds from the dig. Gabarnmung was rediscovered three years ago after it was spotted by Jawoyn Association staff from a helicopter.

The site has a ceiling covered with rock art with the layers signifying the location was visited over and overagain.

There are a number of paintings of fish, crocodiles, wallabies, people, spiritual figures and much more.

Cultural and Environment Manager Ray Whear and pilot Chris Morgan have spent thousands of hours flying over the land as part of the Jawoyn land management programme and have rediscovered more than 3,000 rock art sites this way.

They have been taking Jawoyn elders out to the sites in the hope they can learn more about what the paintings mean and their significance to the Jawoyn people.

It’s the first time a dig has taken place on Jawoyn country and it was led by Monash University’s Doctor Bruno David.

The rest of the team consisted of co-Principal archaeologist from France Professor Jean-Michel Geneste, Senior eomorphologist Professor Jean-Jacques Delannoy and two documentary filmmakers for the scientific team Bernard Sanderre and Patricia Marquet.

The team spent time examining the paintings and also doing small digs to try and date the site and its paintings.

Dr David said he has dedicated his life to working with Indigenous communities documenting the history of their cultural places in close collaboration with them.

“It is their country, their site(s), their history, their ancestors, and in all this, about their lives today. We cannot treat archaeology as abstract science, as it always involves the home and history of individuals and groups,” Mr David said.

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Ancient Aboriginal rock art in Jawoyn country could be the oldest in region by Andy B on Sunday, 10 October 2010
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Ancient Aboriginal rock art discovered on Jawoyn country in Arnhem Land could be the oldest in the region.

Watch Online: Gabarnmung

The site - a spectacular gallery of rock art - is called "Nawarla Gabarnmung", meaning "passage way" or "valley open from the centre".

It holds special significance for local traditional owners, who've invited achaeologists to try and find out more about the art.

"When I come [here] I can feel [my ancestors'] presence you know", traditional owner Margaret Katherine tells Living Black.

Join presenter Karla Grant as she discovers this recently uncovered history.

http://news.sbs.com.au/livingblack//gabarnmung_564901
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Australian Aboriginal Rock Art May Depict Giant Bird Extinct for 40,000 Years by Andy B on Sunday, 10 October 2010
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An Australian Aboriginal rock art may depict a giant bird that is thought to have become extinct some 40,000 years ago, thereby making it the oldest rock painting on the island continent. The red ochre drawing was first discovered two years ago, but archaeologists were only able to confirm the finding two weeks ago, when they first visited the remote site on the Arnhem Land plateau in north Australia.

"Initially, we thought it was another big emu," said consulting archaeologist Ben Gunn, a founding member of the Australian Rock Art Research Association who was documenting the Niwarla Gabarnmung site for the Jawoyn Association.

Niwarla Gabarnmung is located in southwest Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory, a region that is filled with thousands of aboriginal rock art sites.

"The animal wasn't an emu; it looked like the megafauna bird Genyornis, with thick, huge toes and short legs," stated Mr Gunn.

"When we got to the beak we knew that was no emu. We thought, 'goodness do we have a Genyornis?'," said anthropologist and paleontologist Peter Murray, who is now retired from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

Genyornis had a big beak that it used to eat fruits and probably smaller animals that were either too stupid or too slow to escape. Genyornis fossils reveal that it had large hoof-like claws on its toes, adapting it to a cursorial life.

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/05/australian_aboriginal_rock_art.php
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