Bradshaw rock paintings

Some pictures of Bradshaw rock art (English: Bradshaw ) in the Kimberley region in Western Australia to be about 50,000 years old; they belong to Aboriginal art. From this rock painting first reported Joseph Bradshaw, a settler of the land sought, in 1891; according to him the rock painting is named.

Origin and age

From this painting is believed that there are 100,000 pictures in an area of about 50,000 square kilometers in northern Australia. The painting is abstracted in a special way, so that they gave rise to numerous interpretations. The figures are always between 25 cm and 30 cm long. They have long headdress, loincloth, and the same boomerang and occupied barbed spears. Spears of this kind are of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region in the last 3000 years no longer verwendet.In the stories of the Dreamtime of the Aborigines, these images were painted by birds, where they used their own feathers and their blood to paint. The Aboriginal people of the region they call Gwion Gwion.

It was difficult to determine the age of the painting, which was prepared with inorganic pigments. Only in 1996 examined Grahame Walsh one the Bradshaw - style associated with painting by means of a prehistoric wasps nest, which was located on this drawing by Thermoluminiszensanalyse and was able to put a figure on an age of about 17,000 years.