Week 8: Kathryn: Rock Paintings Discovered

During the first week of this class we learned about the Caves of Lascaux. While I was looking for something to write about from the news this week, I discovered that in the isolated Aboriginal territory of Arnhem land in northern Australia a huge collection of rock paintings was just discovered during an expedition that took place over this past August and September. This collection is made up of literally thousands of paintings, many of which are of different types of boats including ocean liners. What is so interesting about this find is that this culture was believed to be completely isolated and removed from the outside world, but these paintings tell a different story.