One of the newly discovered sailing ship paintings found in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land….

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James Woodford
HIDDEN in rugged ranges in north-west Arnhem Land, a spectacular treasure-trove of Aboriginal rock art is set to rewrite the history of Australia.
In a find that has stunned archaeologists and anthropologists, a vast wall of about 1500 paintings chronicles the history of Aboriginal contact with outsiders, from Macassan prows and European sailing ships to […]

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Stunning pictures and audio in this special SMH slideshow from Djulirri Rock shelter in Arnhem Land - prepared by Rick Stevens, James Woodford and Paulina Vidal

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Pictures and story by James Woodford
Hidden in Arnhem Land’s remote Wellington Range is a maze of tortured sandstone and an enormous overhang hiding one of the world’s most important rock art panels.
The Djulirri rock shelter’s 1500 stunning paintings are a record of all that makes people marvellous and terrifying, a spectacular narrative spanning almost the […]

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Archaeological expeditioners, Michael Cartier, and Rik Deveridge prepare to land at Forgotten Ridge in the Wollemi Wilderness. 
Story by James Woodford 
There is a ridge and a creek in the heart of the 500,000-hectare Wollemi wilderness which are so remote they have never been officially named by Europeans.
An archaeologist, Wayne Brennan, and his colleagues have called these […]

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Prof. Paul S.C. Taçon
School of Arts
Gold Coast campus
Griffith University, Qld 4222
p.tacon@griffith.edu.au

I am fortunate to have worked in incredible natural and cultural landscapes around the world, many of them in remote parts of Australia.   I work closely with indigenous people to study rock art – paintings, drawings, engravings, stencils, prints and designs made out of beeswax […]

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