Gwion Gwion rock art
Some images of the Gwion Gwion rock art (English: Gwion Gwion rock art) in the Kimberleys in Western Australia are said to be around 50,000 years old; they belong to the art of the Aborigines . This rock painting was first reported by Joseph Bradshaw , a settler who was looking for land, in 1891; the rock painting is named after him.
Origin and age
This painting is believed to have 100,000 images in an area of approximately 50,000 square kilometers in northern Australia. The painting is abstracted in a special way, so that it gave rise to numerous interpretations. The figures are always between 25 cm and 30 cm long. They have long headdresses, loincloths, and the same boomerangs and barbed spears. Spears of this type have not been used by Aboriginal people in the Kimberly region for the past 3000 years. In the tales of the Aboriginal Dreamtime , these pictures were painted by birds, using their own feathers and blood to paint. The Aborigines of the region call them Gwion Gwion .
It was difficult to determine the age of paintings made with inorganic pigments . It was not until 1996 that Grahame Walsh examined a painting assigned to the Bradshaw style using a prehistoric wasp's nest that was on this drawing, using thermoluminescent analysis and was able to put it at an age of around 17,000 years.
literature
- Andreas Lommel: Progress towards nowhere. The modernization of the primitives of Australia. Description and definition of a psychological decline , revised edition: Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1981 ISBN 3-548-32032-5
source
Individual evidence
- ↑ Convictcreations: Breadshaws
- ↑ Flood J. (2004) Archeology of the Dreamtime ISBN 1876622504