Plants before farming: The deep history of plant-use and representation in the rock art of Australia's Kimberley region

Veth, Peter; Myers, Cecilia; Heaney, Pauline; Ouzman, Sven

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.036

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“…As part of a larger multiyear rock art dating project (24,25), nest samples associated with 21 different motifs of the distinctive Gwion style are reported here. All samples were obtained with Traditional Owner consent and participation.…”

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“…Only two Kimberley rock art motifs have provided age estimates older than the mid-Holocene (20,21), and only one of these can be attributed to an identified style, but even this date has been the subject of much debate (5,22). Notwithstanding this lack of direct evidence, it has long been thought that the older styles in the Kimberley sequence date back to the Pleistocene [e.g., (23,24)]. Here, we report on radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests, overlying (thereby providing minimum ages) or underlying (providing maximum ages) Kimberley rock art motifs, allowing this hypothesis to be thoroughly tested.…”

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“…In this study, we use 24 wasp nest dates to estimate the age of a renowned anthropomorphic style from one of the relatively older periods of the Kimberley rock art stylistic sequence. These 24 nests were either under or over motifs originally referred to as "Bradshaw" paintings but which are now generally referred to as "Gwion" figures (24,26) while acknowledging that different Traditional Owner groups have their own preferred names (including Gwion Gwion, Kiro Kiro, or Kujon). The Gwion style is dominated by finely painted human figures in elaborate ceremonial dress (27,28) including long headdresses and accompanied by material culture including boomerangs and spears (e.g., Fig.…”

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12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia

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The Kimberley region in Western Australia hosts one of the world’s most substantial bodies of indigenous rock art thought to extend in a series of stylistic or iconographic phases from the present day back into the Pleistocene. As with other rock art worldwide, the older styles have proven notoriously difficult to date quantitatively, requiring new scientific approaches. Here, we present the radiocarbon ages of 24 mud wasp nests that were either over or under pigment from 21 anthropomorphic motifs of the Gwion style (previously referred to as “Bradshaws”) from the middle of the relative stylistic sequence. We demonstrate that while one date suggests a minimum age of c. 17 ka for one motif, most of the dates support a hypothesis that these Gwion paintings were produced in a relatively narrow period around 12,000 years ago.

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“…There is a recurring emphasis in the papers on the modelled and accepted age ranges for New, Intermediate and Old rock-art categories (e.g. Chippindale & Taçon 1998 Ouzman et al (2017) and Veth et al (2017). The following chapters are discussed within broad themes.…”

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Hiri: Archaeology of Long‐Distance Maritime Trade along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea By Robert John Skelly and Bruno David University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2017 ISBN: 9780824853662. Pp. xxxv + 570. USD85 (hb).

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“…The timeless rock paintings and the mythology of the Aboriginal Australians portray the Kundingas as shape-shifting, with the form of yam as one of the most prominent (Veth et al, 2018;Suppl. File 1, Fig.…”

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Vigna lanceolata in the fire-stick farming and the Australian Aboriginal culture

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An amphicarpic and tuberous legume yam Vigna lanceolata Benth., endemic to Australia, has had an extraordinary significance in the peculiar type o f farming and entire culture o f the Aboriginal peoples for tens of millennia. Our review, welding plant and human sciences, offers a concise and informative presentation of the species, by elaborating its taxonomy and morphology, describing its beneficial nutritional and medicinal properties, exploring its ecogeography, with a remarkable population abundance in the northern areas of the continent, assessing its extensive spreading as a consequence of the past fire-use environmental changes and ways o f its wilderness reconnaissance, harvest and food preparation, depicting its role in the Australian Aboriginal art, as one of the most sacred objects in the Dreamtime religion, presenting its vernacular names in 85 extinct and living Australian Aboriginal languages and concluding with opening new horizons o f its research, through recently established biodiversity and breeding programmes.

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Plants before farming: The deep history of plant-use and representation in the rock art of Australia's Kimberley region

Cited by 54 publications

References 55 publications

12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia

12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia

Hiri: Archaeology of Long‐Distance Maritime Trade along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea By Robert John Skelly and Bruno David University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2017 ISBN: 9780824853662. Pp. xxxv + 570. USD85 (hb).

Vigna lanceolata in the fire-stick farming and the Australian Aboriginal culture

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