{"id":143780,"date":"2022-08-08T05:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/oldest-australian-rock-painting"},"modified":"2022-08-08T05:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:23:43","slug":"oldest-australian-rock-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/oldest-australian-rock-painting","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Australian rock painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oldest-australian-rock-painting2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View insights.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An image of a kangaroo has been identified as Australia\u2019s oldest known rock painting, dated to over 17,000 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The two-metre-long kangaroo is painted on the ceiling of a rock shelter on the Unghango clan estate, in <a href=\"https:\/\/nativetitle.org.au\/find\/pbc\/2923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Balanggarra country<\/a> in the north-eastern Kimberley region, WA.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Damien Finch from the University of Melbourne used <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/archaeology\/beyond-carbon-dating-how-archaeologists-find-the-age-of-an-object\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radiocarbon dating<\/a> to determine the ages of mud-wasp nests below and above the painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View insights. An image of a kangaroo has been identified as Australia\u2019s oldest known rock painting, dated to over 17,000 years old. The two-metre-long kangaroo is painted on the ceiling of a rock shelter on the Unghango clan estate, in Balanggarra country in the north-eastern Kimberley region, WA. A research team led by Damien Finch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}