Period |
Phase |
Style/Technique |
Major or Identifying Elements | |
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PRE-ESTUARINE |
50,000 years ago. From this date, haematite and red and yellow ochres were used to prepare pigment |
Objects Imprints |
Hand prints, imprints of grass and thrown objects | |
20,000 years ago Naturalistic |
Large naturalistic figures complex |
Extinct megafauna; thylacine; Tasmanian devil; terrestial animals; rock python; freshwater crocodiles; human beings; earliest x-ray paintings | ||
Dynamic Figures |
Human beings in complex apparel; anthropomorphs; zoomorphs;terrestial animals; freshwater fish; stencils: had of 3MF convention; boomerangs;one-piece multibarbed spears; detailed compostions | |||
Stylisation |
Post dynamic figures |
Human beings in headdresses; public aprons and bustles; macropods; lizards; fighting pick/hooked stick introduced | ||
Schematisation |
Simple figures with boomerangs |
Human beings in headdresses; public aprons and bustles; conflict; fighting pick; single and multiple pronged barbded composite spears; possible spearthrower | ||
Stylisation |
Mountford figures |
Human figures (many elongated); spearthrower | ||
Naturalistic symbolism |
Yam figures |
Anthropomorphised yams; phytomorphised animals; Rainbow Snake; ibis; egret; short necked turtle; flying fox; long arm prawn; segmented circle symbol | ||
Estaurine 8000 years ago |
Naturalistic |
Early estaurine complex |
Estaurine fish; barramundi; mullet; catfish; saltwater crocodile; variety of spearthrowers |
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Rock Art Chronolgy
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