Art on the ceiling of the shelter Narwala Gabarnmang. Credit: University of Southern Queensland
Aboriginal Rock Art Is 28,000 Years Old -- Cosmos/AFP
SYDNEY: Aboriginal rock art found in remote Australia has been dated at 28,000 years old, experts have said, prompting new speculation that indigenous communities were among the world's most advanced.
Archaeologists picked up the fragment in inaccessible wilderness in Arnhem Land in the country's north a year ago, and recent carbon dating of its charcoal drawing has placed it among some of the oldest art on the planet.
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My Comment: Early man was not so backwards after-all.
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