#arnhemland — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arnhemland, aggregated by home.social.
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#RockArt depicting the iconic #RainbowSerpent, and other large-format #paintings, became far more common in #ArnhemLand after European settlement, reflecting a broad shift in style, materials, and technique.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2026.2676505?scroll=top&needAccess=true#d1e313 #science #anthropology #archaeology #archeology #art #painting #FirstNations #AboriginalAustralians #australia #NorthernTerritory
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A 6.8m Rainbow Serpent with a crocodile head, 29 of them in 27 sq km, and Australia’s only rock art whale with baleen. Awunbarna’s giants were painted as the buffalo shooters arrived. #RockArt #ArnhemLand #Archaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/why-the-rainbow-serpents-of-awunbarna
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Sea Level Rise Drowned A Vast Habitable Area Of North-Western Australia Driving Long-Term Cultural Change
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108418 <-- shared paper
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[By modelling these geographic features, the team estimates that the region could have supported a population of between 50,000 and 500,000 people.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #sealevelrise #demographics #remotesensing #climatechange #Pleistocene #Sahu #human #occupation #dispersal #archaeology #rockart #indigeneous #aborgines #firstnation #ancientpeoples #paleogeography #drownedlandscapes #Continentalshelf #Sealevelchange #bathymetry #topobathy #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #NewGuinea #PapuaNewGuinea #kimberley #arnhemland #NorthernAustralia #WesternAustralia #marine #ocean #innundation #model #modeling #archipelago
#australia #Wallacea #habitation #settlement #civilisation #maritime #economics #ancienthistory #sediment #sampling #geology #holocene
