Sails Set in Stone: A Technological Analysis of Non-indigenous Watercraft Rock Art Paintings in North Western Arnhem Land

Guse (Wesley), Daryl; McKinnon, Jennifer; Raupp, Jason

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Sails Set in Stone: A Technological Analysis of Non-indigenous Watercraft Rock Art Paintings in North Western Arnhem Land

Date

2012

Authors

Guse (Wesley), Daryl

McKinnon, Jennifer

Raupp, Jason

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Abstract

In 2008 researchers from the Australian National University's Archaeology and Natural History Department and Flinders University's Program in Maritime Archaeology recorded nine non-Indigenous watercraft rock art images in a rock-shelter in the Wellington