Dating the Aboriginal rock art of the Kimberley region, Western Australia - landscape geochemistry, surface processes and complementary dating techniques.

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University of Melbourne

The age of much of the spectacular rock art of the Kimberley region of Western Australia remains unknown, especially in its earliest stages. This project aims to use the most advanced dating techniques now available to determine a sequence of ages for this ancient cultural record, increasing its recognition as a heritage site of international significance.

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Dating correlated microlayers in oxalate accretions from rock art shelters: New archives of paleoenvironments and human activity
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Journal article
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Green, H., Gleadow, A., Levchenko, V.A., Finch, D., Myers, C., McGovern, J., Heaney, P. and Pickering, R.
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Science Advances
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Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).
New developments in the radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests
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Journal article
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Finch, D., Gleadow, A., Hergt, J., Levchenko, V.A. and Fink, D
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Quaternary Geochronology
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1871-1014/ © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Characterisation of mineral deposition systems associated with rock art in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia
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Journal article
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Green, H., Gleadow, A. and Finch, D.
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Data in brief
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2352-3409/& 2017 Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).