Lost world of the Kimberley : extraordinary glimpses of Australia's Ice Age ancestors / Ian Wilson.

"Back at a time when most of Europe lay deep beneath ice sheets, a people in the remote and rugged Kimberley Ranges of north-west Australia created figurative paintings of such verve and talent that they surpass all other of the world's rock art." "Known as 'Bradshaws', after pioneer farmer Joseph B...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, Ian, 1941-
Language:	English
Published:	Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2006.
Subjects:	Rock paintings > Australia > Kimberley (W.A.) Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Kimberley (W.A.) > Antiquities. Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Kimberley (W.A.) > History. Cave paintings > Australia > Kimberley (W.A.) Kimberley (W.A.) > Antiquities. Felsbild. Aborigines. Kimberley <Westaustralien>. Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Australians > Antiquities. Antiquities. Cave paintings. Rock paintings. Western Australia > Kimberley. History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	ix, 315 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Chapter 1. Drop-in at Reindeer Rock
Chapter 2. Early rock art encounters
Chapter 3. Modern-day encounters
Chapter 4. Twenty-nine in a boat
Chapter 5. Hands of time
Chapter 6. 'Mother' and her 'dogs'
Chapter 7. 'Breadbaskets' and puppets
Chapter 8. Boat design pioneers
Chapter 9. Time of the spears
Chapter 10. Odes to the boomerang
Chapter 11. A Bradshaw 'Lost City'?
Chapter 12. Follow that river
Chapter 13. Putting people to the paintings
Chapter 14. Putting dates to the paintings
Chapter 15. Putting genes to the paintings
Chapter 16. Tracing where they went
Chapter 17. Window on the world's oldest culture.