Mineral deposition systems at rock art sites, Kimberley, Northern Australia — Field observations

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 340-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Green ◽  
Andrew Gleadow ◽  
Damien Finch ◽  
Janet Hergt ◽  
Sven Ouzman
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Mineral Deposition

Trends in the Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art of Western Europe and Australia.

1991 ◽  
Vol 57 (01) ◽  
pp. 163-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Layton
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Ratio Method ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Cation Ratio ◽  
Palaeolithic Art ◽  
Personal Adornment

Rock art associated with modern human populations has a comparable antiquity in Western Europe and Australia (table 1). In Western Europe personal adornment, human and animal statuettes and some carved stone blocks date from the early Aurignacian. In Australia a date of 30,000 BP has been claimed for the origin of the geometric art tradition of the Olary Province of Southern Australia, a date which would make it contemporary with the modern human community at Lake Mungo 150 miles to the east, who were practising deliberate burial (Bowler and Thome 1976, 129,138). This date, however, depends on the cation ratio method, whose calibration is still open to question (Nobbs and Dorn 1988; Clarke 1989; Watchman 1989).Secure dates based on C14 measurements show that both geometric motifs and engraved animal silhouettes in northern Australia are contemporary with the flowering of European Palaeolithic art during the Magdalenian (for Dampier, see Lorblanchet 1988, 286; for Laura, see Rosenfeld 1981, 12, 53).

The identification of extinct megafauna in rock art using geometric morphometrics: A Genyornis newtoni painting in Arnhem Land, northern Australia?

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 95-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rommy Cobden ◽  
Chris Clarkson ◽  
Gilbert J. Price ◽  
Bruno David ◽  
Jean-Michel Geneste ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Morphometrics ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Arnhem Land

Field observations of a cryptic agamid (Chameleon Dragon Chelosania brunnea Gray, 1845) in semi-arid savanna woodland of northern Australia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana de Laive ◽  
Chris J. Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Small Area ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Antipredator Behaviour ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Broad Distribution ◽  
Savanna Woodland ◽  
Shelter Site ◽  
Site Use ◽  
Semi Arid

ABSTRACT Chameleon Dragons Chelosania brunnea Gray, 1845 are well known amongst naturalists of northern Australia as being one of the most cryptic and least frequently observed of Australia’s large, iconic lizards. Despite their broad distribution across the savanna woodlands that dominate northern Australia, very few records exist of this species and, as a consequence, nearly nothing is known about their natural history. Here, we present records of 19 Chameleon Dragons, detected during clearing activities of a small area of semi-arid woodland at Delamere Air Weapons Range, Northern Territory. Additionally, we provide notes on sexual dimorphism, antipredator behaviour and shelter site use in this species. We discuss how some of this novel information may explain why this species is so rarely detected and suggests that this cryptic agamid may be much more common in savanna woodland than currently appreciated.

Themes in the prehistory of tropical Australia

Antiquity ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (265) ◽  
pp. 747-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Morwood ◽  
D. R. Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Distinctive Pattern ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Local Sequence ◽  
Arnhem Land ◽  
Tropical Australia

The wetter tropical zones of northern Australia are linked by their monsoonal climates. Their archaeology shows its own distinctive pattern as well, and rock-art is an important source of evidence and insight. This study focusses on a part of Queensland, setting this local sequence alongside Arnhem Land (reported by the paper of Taçon & Brockwell) and in the northern pattern as a whole.

RADIOCARBON DATES FOR BEESWAX FIGURES IN THE PREHISTORIC ROCK ART OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA

Archaeometry ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. NELSON ◽  
G. CHALOUPKA ◽  
C. CHIPPINDALE ◽  
M. S. ALDERSON ◽  
J. R. SOUTHON
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates

Boundaries, Relationality, and Style Provinces in Australian Rock Art

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Kelly ◽  
Liam M. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
The Core ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Similarity And Difference

Identifying style provinces is a popular topic of enquiry in Australian rock art research. At the core of these studies is the focus on the style or manner of depiction of motifs as a key indicator for determining patterns of motif similarity and difference, and their corresponding spatial distribution. In identifying spatial continuities and discontinuities based on a formal analysis of rock art motifs fixed in place, researchers sometimes limit their ability to understand the relational dimensions associated with past and present graphic systems more broadly. This chapter reviews and critiques the formal, style-based methods of delineating discontinuities in rock art as boundaries and uses Nancy Williams’s work on Yolngu boundaries as a framework to further build on research into spatial discontinuities in rock art as flexible, intersecting, and fluid. In doing so, the authors also draw attention to the role of relational understandings and decorative portable objects in characterizing intersecting style-based discontinuities. Using two case studies from northern Australia, they demonstrate how the spatial and social boundaries expressed in rock art are often much more complex than originally envisaged.

The effect of the green ant, Oecophylla smaragdina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), on insect pests of cashew trees in Australia

1995 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. K. Peng ◽  
K. Christian ◽  
K. Gibb
Keyword(s):  
Insect Pests ◽  
Anacardium Occidentale ◽  
Native Vegetation ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Oecophylla Smaragdina ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
The Future ◽  
Control Insect

AbstractThe influence of green ants, Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius), on insect pests of cashew, Anacardium occidentale Linnaeus, in tropical northern Australia was investigated using field surveys and field observations. Oecophylla smaragdina was abundant in the native vegetation of the area, and it was a dominant predator when found in cashew plantations. Oecophylla smaragdina significantly reduced the numbers of the four most important species of insect pests (Helopeltis pernicialis Stonedahl, Malipatil & Houston, Penicillaria jocosatrix (Guenée), Amblypelta lutescens (Distant) and Anigraea ochrobasis Hampson) on cashew trees, and trees with higher numbers of O. smaragdina produced higher quality nuts than trees with fewer numbers of O. smaragdina. Other ant species also reduced pest numbers, but not as much as O. smaragdina. The possibility of using O. smaragdina to control insect pests of cashew in the future is discussed.

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