Aboriginal cave painting

One of the most intriguing and perplexing legends of the Australian Aboriginal people is that of the Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings and creators of the land and people. The land of the Wandjina is a vast area of about 200,000 square kilometres of lands, waters, sea and islands in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia with continuous culture dating back at least 60,000 years but probably much older.

This is a collection of strange being/creature artifacts. The question is… Are all of these different types of beings just based on mythology or did they really exist and interact with humans…

This is a record of the aboriginal art, including Bradshaw figures, discovered during part of a bushwalking trip from the Berkeley River to the King George River and then to the Drysdale River in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia.

Aboriginal cave painting Australia

This post shows you how to help your students create beautiful Australian Aboriginal Cave Art using brown paper and chalk pastels, in addition to stone carvings using Plaster of Paris

Rock painting, ca. 6000 B.C.E. © Archivo Iconografico, S.A./Corbis Aboriginal "x-ray style" figure. Kakadu National Park, Northern...

Edmund Bradden provides an introduction to Chris Knight's theory of human origins. Reposted from the 'Radical Anthropology Group' website.

Also exists in "negative" (blue) version. Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings can also be of recent production: In the Gabarnmung cave of northern Australia, the oldest paintings certainly predate 28,000 years ago, while the most recent ones were made less than a century ago.

In the heart of Idaho's remote Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness the middle lies one of America's premiere Wild & Scenic Rivers.