Sydney Rock Art
Samantha Mattila reports on the discovery of valuable new additions to Sydney’s rock art.
A 4,000-year-old record of Australian Aboriginal rock art hidden by an inhospitable location has been revealed at a cave just outside Sydney. Australian Museum’s rock art specialist and Principal Research Scientist in Anthropology, Dr Paul Taçon, described the new find, in a heavily forested area in a remote and rugged part of Wollemi National Park, as ‘incredibly important’, with more than 200 separate depictions and up to twelve different layers of art, created over time in different geographic styles.
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