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Grahame Walsh, an expert in stencil art, explores Carnarvon Gorge to find evidence of occupation by Aboriginal people 20,000 years ago.
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Grahame Walsh, an expert in stencil art, explores Carnarvon Gorge to find evidence of occupation by Aboriginal people 20,000 years ago.
This clip shows rock art at Carnarvon Gorge in southern Queensland, where the major landmarks were centres of religious and ceremonial life for the local Aboriginal people. The ochre stencils on the walls of Cathedral Cave in the Gorge portray artefacts and weaponry such as lil-lils and other kinds of boomerangs. Grahame Walsh theorises that stencilled artwork in the Gorge was used as a language as well as an art form, and he also theorises about the meanings behind the artwork. He says, ‘there’s a fair chance some of the stencil art that we’re looking at is towards 20,000 years old’.
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