Dating the Murujuga Cultural Landscape

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Dampier Archipelago (including Burrup Peninsula) is one of Australia’s most significant rock art provinces. Recently nominated to the World Heritage List as the Murujuga Cultural Landscape, this talk describes efforts which are being made to directly-date this deep time rock art sequence, by innovative direct dating approaches. New efforts to understand desert varnish, and experimental work with luminescence surface dating are being used alongside broader landscape focus on sand dunes and freshwater carbonate tufas. This project is contextualising the human use and extensive modification of this land- and seascape through time.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research

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Abstract Id(s): 38998.0