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Article: Arnhem Land prehistory in landscape, stone and paint. (Arnhem Land, Australia)(Special Issue)(Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia & Papua New Guinea)
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- Antiquity
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- January 1, 1995
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Arnhem Land at the end of the Pleistocene Making sense of information about the human past is one of the primary goals of archaeological research. In western Arnhem Land we may obtain information from two very different but complimentary sources, shelter walls/ceilings and shelter deposits. The region is well known for its spectacular galleries of rock-art and for its deep and extensive deposits, both of which reach back in time to considerable antiquity. The problem is that on the walls and ceilings we have lots of information from the past but few secure dates. The opposite is true of the deposits where we have sequences of generally reliable dates but very little ...
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Article: A singular beeswax representation of Namarrkon, the Lightning ...
Australian Aboriginal Studies;
September 22, 2008 ;
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... ... Namarrkon, the Lightning Man, from western Arnhem Land were analysed for radiocarbon and dated ... Being Namarrkon is well known throughout Arnhem Land, although his sphere of activity is ... concentrated around the northern half of the Arnhem Land plateau. Namarrkon is well ...
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