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Ancient shelter reveals some of the world’s rarest rock art

Designs on dark, reddish rock surrounded by white pigment.

Aboriginal artists sprayed paint around beeswax models to create these images of boomerangs and human-like figures, researchers suggest. Colours are artificially enhanced. Credit: L. M. Brady/Antiquity Publications Ltd

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Nature 582, 11 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01577-1

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