Aboriginal Rock Art is 28,000 Years Old

[Catbird]

This is a pretty neat find.

Discovery News:

"Aboriginal rock art found in remote Australia has been dated at 28,000 years old, experts said Monday, prompting new speculation that indigenous communities were among the world's most advanced.

Archaeologists picked up the fragment in inaccessible wilderness in Arnhem Land in the country's north a year ago, and recent carbon dating of its charcoal drawing has placed it among some of the oldest art on the planet."

And now for the rest of the story...

The Times of India is also reporting on finds at this same site.

"Archeologists have found a series of drawings on the roof of caves in the inaccessible wilderness in Arnhem Land, in the country's north, which clearly shows a couple having sex.

Other sections of the wide-ranging artwork in white and red shows other figures engaged in some form of prehistoric porn, the Daily Mail reported.

Archeologist Bryce Barker, a professor at the University of Southern Queensland, said that irrespective of the rather racy subject matter above - it's what he and his team have been finding underneath the erotic art that ranked among rock art sites such as France's Chauvet caves, dated at older than 30,000 years, and caves in northern Spain now thought to be 40,000 years old.

One section of artwork they have excavated, a stone with patterns drawn in charcoal, has been dated to 28,000 years old - making it one of the oldest artworks in the world."