澳大利亚岩画是土著人创作的。他们的精神世界中宗教信仰和生与死的观念,都在岩画中得到充分地展现。澳大利亚岩画是大洋洲很多重要的岩画点集中地。在本世纪七十年代, 人们已承认,这里是世界上最丰富、最庞大的岩画艺术的画廊之一。
对于遍布澳大利亚的众多岩画遗址来说,在 Panaremitee 发现的那些简单图案显得很普通。
The simple motifs found at Panaramitee are common to many rock-art sites across Australia.
古生物学家彼得·默里在澳大利亚北部研究过一幅岩画,画中显示的非常像是一种被叫做袋貘的巨型有袋动物。
Paleontologist Peter Murray has studied a rock painting in far northern Australia that shows what looks very much like a megafauna marsupial known as Palorchestes.
2008年秋天,澳大利亚北部的阿纳姆地d julirri考古遗址,研究者们发现了大批的描绘人类、鸟类和袋鼠的岩画。
In fall 2008 researchers found a vast trove of images of humans, birds, and kangaroos painted onto the walls of a rock shelter at the Djulirri archaeological site in northern Australia's Arnhem Land.
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