Hello Peoples ... been away for a while.
I have found the Toequest forum has slowly but surely drifted away from the 'Science aspects' that interest me. This is not a criticism, but leaves me little to post on. Science has always been an interest of mine, but if truth were told it is a secondary interest. My main interest has always been in evolution and the descent of Man.
In pursuit of this interest my friend Roscoe and I have recently been on a trip (or holiday) to a remote part of Australia.
Mainly we were in search of rock art and stone lithics.
I am hoping that Robert or Neutralino will read this and create an
early-man or hominid or archeology forum, but in the mean time this is the only toequest forum I can find where I can post on this interest. After all Hominds played a part in the theory of everything too. LOL
My first post is mainly pictures of our trip. Hope you enjoy and that I get enough feedback to convince Neutralino that it may be a valid topic.
We travelled 1520 kilometres west of our homes to Broken Hill, then a further 130 klm north east to a very very remote area called Mutawintji. This is tribal land and is governed under Native Title.
A Map of our journey
Mutawintji itself
Rock Art in Mutawintji is classed as some of the oldest art in the world. The small line with the divided ends is a flail for warding of evil spirits. The rectangle with the bars drawn thru it is common in a lot of rock art here but its meaning is obscure
Hand prints are not really classed as Rock Art but are rather signatures. The more of the forearm shown the higher the ranking of the individual. White with forearm show extremely high rank.
Stone engravings in this area are known as Paramanitee style or 'Track and Circle'. They have never really been decoded and are abstract in design. I personally believe they are schematic maps of territory rather than normal (diagrammatic) maps.
Had to crawl into a deep crevice and expose the film for 3-4 seconds to get this one.
One the way back we camped at Mt Grenfell, another rock art site but different (later) in style. I call this type the happy or animated people style. The first one below must have been done by a child as I had to slide into a very narrow cave with the camera on my face and the lens scraping the roof of the cave.
And finally a couple of pics of the Mt Grenfell area
Hope you enjoyed. Please give me some feedback
cool bananas ... greg