Unknown vandals recently scratched out two ancient Aboriginal hand stencils at Nirmena Nala rock shelter in Tasmania, in the upper region of the Derwent valley. The damage, which almost ...

As Clyde Mansell, chairman of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, tells Calla Wahlquist for the Guardian Australia, the importance of the stencils isn't just about the work itself, but the stor ...

The yellow crazy ant is believed to have made its way from South-East Asia to the Gove Peninsula, about 600 kilometres east of Darwin, during World War II. The Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation has ...

The hand stencils depicted life as it was in ancient times, Col Davison from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council in Sydney said, including such everyday images as eels, a spearhead and ...

“This area may have been a birthing site for Aboriginal people because it’s so close to a freshwater supply,” Ms Kaiser-Glass said. “There are more than 20 hand stencils created by people ...

media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring A piece of cave art resembling an ancient Aboriginal hand stencil, found near a controversial Australian coalmine project, has turned ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the most detailed examples of rare, small-scale rock art in the form of miniature stencils in ... owned by the Marra Aboriginal people, the site was ...

Similar mini stencils have been found at two other sites, one in New South Wales, Australia, and the other on Kisar Island in Indonesia. The earliest known examples of Aboriginal rock art are ...

As Clyde Mansell, chairman of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, tells Calla Wahlquist for the Guardian Australia, the importance of the stencils isn't just about the work itself, but the stor ...