Why Sulawesi’s Oldest Rock Art Are Disintegrating
Over 45,000-year-old cave paintings in Sulawesi, Indonesia, face rapid decay due to exfoliation. Researchers are exploring causes and preservation strategies ...
Tag: Paul Taçon (person)
Anthropologist based in Griffith University, known for rock art research in Southeast Asia and Australia.
[Paper] Maliwawa figures – a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style
via Australian Archaeology, 30 Sep 2020: A new paper describes a previously unreported style of rock art in Arnhem Land, ...
Management of large-scale rock art areas Survey
Researchers at Griffith University are conducting a survey about rock art landscape management - help them out through the link ...
[Paper] Rare Late Pleistocene-early Holocene human mandibles from the Niah Caves (Sarawak, Borneo)
New paper in PLOS One describing mandibles from the Niah Caves - these were excavated by the Harrissons in 1957. ...
Australian researchers give talks at the Sarawak Museum
Two researchers from Australia were recently at the Sarawak Museum to give talks about the the rock art and human ...
Red Deer Cave People: another set of new, old humans
I've been slow in getting this news out which has been floating about a week already. An article in PLoS ...
Contact between the Malay World and Australia: The Rock Art of Djulirri
If you pick up the latest issue of Archaeology Magazine (Jan/Feb 2011), you'll find their headlining feature on the rock ...
Scenes from the World Rock Art course in KL
A couple of weeks ago, I got the chance to attend the World Rock Art course at the University of ...
World Rock Art course in Kuala Lumpur in November
The Malaysian campus of the University of Nottingham is offering a four-day workshop on rock art in the Kuala Lumpur.
Sharing our Archaeological Heritage – Day 3
After nine sessions and 37 papers, the final day was certainly about letting our hair down and enjoying the new ...
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