The nature of Australian Pleistocene Rock Art

Robert G. Bednarik

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Archaeology and Rock Art Studies Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Australian Indigenous Culture and History

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Some of the most popular assumptions about Pleistocene rock art are falsities: it is not largely a phenomenon found in limestone caves, and thus related to some cultic activities connected with such sites; it is not essentially a phenomenon of the Upper Palaeolithic period; and it is not a phenomenon primarily of south-western Europe. For more than a century we have been indoctrinated by a mythology that is in urgent need of correction before a balanced investigation of global Pleistocene ro...

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