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Cave painting in Australia

Early cave paintings have been found Kakadu. They sometimes used ochre for their cave paintings. The aboriginal artists used ochre and many other materials like Kimberley. Ochre is not an organic material  so it makes it hard to date and near impossible through carbon dating.
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The picture to the right is  an image of cave paintings like the cave painting found in centre of the Arnhem Land plateau. These cave paintings have been shown to be useful  on finding out species that are now extinct. An example of this is an emu like bird with a stretched out neck which has been discovered. It showed that it had become extinct over 40,000 years ago.
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The Whitsunday Islands also have many cave paintings. These are by the seafaring Ngaro people on Hook Island, Australia. These do not have abstract and figurative content which is a mystery.

The video above is about Australia's cave art and how the aboriginal people have shown how they believed the world was created through the rock art. It was called The Dream Time   It also shows other paintings and the meanings.
Video found at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHKqX8_pqU