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Of Lightning Brothers and White Cockatoos: dating the antiquity of signifying systems in the Northern Territory, Australia

1994; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 68; Issue: 259 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0003598x0004655x

1745-1744

Bruno David, Ian J. McNiven, Val Attenbrow, Josephine Flood, Jackie Collins,

Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Northern Australia is one of the very few regions of the world where an established tradition of rock-art has continued and extends into present-day knowledge. Excavation of deposits under the painted surfaces allows the age of the paintings to be estimated, by linking across to these deposits and their dateable contexts. One can begin to assess the antiquity of those systems of knowledge and of ‘signifying’.