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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: "Amazing" Rock Art May Revise Australian History Books


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Thousands of Aboriginal rock paintings have been discovered in the remote ranges of northern Australia, archaeologists announced recently.

Drawings of Indonesian sailing boats called praus (above) suggest that Aboriginals had extensive contact with neighboring cultures perhaps hundreds of years before the British settled Australia in the late 1700s.

Photograph courtesy Rick Stevens