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Pollution Probe for ancient Austrialian Rock Art

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 06 April 2004  Page Views: 748

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Scientists have begun a major study in Australia’s remote northwest into how mining and pollution is damaging the world’s largest concentration of ancient rock art, a state government announced.

The Burrup Peninsula in the state of Western Australia is the home of up to a million prehistoric Aboriginal rock engravings and carvings as a well as Australia’s largest resource development.

The government said it had commissioned a four-year study to measure the damage caused by industrial emissions from the Woodside Northwest Shelf natural gas project and Hamersley Iron’s mining operations on the unique 10,000-year-old art.

Increased acidity of rainwater has been blamed for a major deterioration in the art since the late 1980s.

Source: The Scotsman 06/04/2004
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