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Jo McDonald et al., « Pleistocene Rock Art: a Colonizing Repertoire for Australia’s Earliest Inhabitants », Palethnologie, ID : 10.4000/palethnologie.4321
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We argue that rock art played an integral role in the colonization of Australia – one of the most arid continents on earth. We also propose that there was regional diversification in art before the pre-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). We critique earlier schema proposed for rock art chronology – recasting this not as an evolutionary trend but rather as a necessary component in the colonization of an arid landscape. It is clear that there is an older – predominantly geometric – art form across Aust...