This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia's oldest Aboriginal rock painting
- Written by Damien Finch, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Melbourne
In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter above the Drysdale River.
In a paper published today in Nature Human Behaviour, we date the artwork as being between 17,500 and 17,100 years old —...





