Resumen de Pleistocene rock art. A colonizing repertoire for Australia's earliest inhabitants
A recent paper discussing the arrival of modern humans into Australia 50 ka argues that rock art was one of a suite of behaviours which would have facilitated the colonization of the most arid continent on earth. In this paper we discuss the social mechanisms and likely art correlates for that behaviour. The distribution of Australia's earliest art throughout the arid zone -and its cultural continuity in that environmental context- are discussed.
