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Kangaroo Painting Thought to be 17,300 Years Old
HeritageDaily ^
| February 23, 2021
| University of Melbourne
Posted on 04/05/2021 2:33:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Using the radiocarbon dating of 27 mud wasp nests, collected from over and under 16 similar paintings, a University of Melbourne collaboration has put the painting at 17,500 and 17,100 years old. “This makes the painting Australia’s oldest known in-situ painting,” said Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Damien Finch who pioneered the exciting new radiocarbon technique. “This is a significant find as through these initial estimates, we can understand something of the world these ancient artists lived in. We can never know what was in the mind of the artist when he/she painted this piece of work more than 600 generations ago, but we do know that the Naturalistic period extended back into the Last Ice Age, so the environment was cooler and dryer than today.”
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: australia; carbon12; carbon14; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; pleistocene; radiocarbondating; rcdating
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:33:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
That’s a talented kangaroo!
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:34:23 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Yes, radiocarbon dating is valid, no it's not ineffective before 4004 BC.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:34:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like a Nadler mugshot.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:43:53 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: SunkenCiv
quite the down fall from Kangaroos being able to paint in ancient times to only learning how to box in modern times.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:44:54 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: SunkenCiv
I thought they didn’t invent the Kangaroo until the 1700s?
To: SunkenCiv
Mud wasps and Australia go together great.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:53:18 PM PDT
by
Track9
(Dealing with democrats is like living without toilet paper. )
To: SunkenCiv
Well, tie me kangaroo down!
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:54:27 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: nickcarraway
It’s not well known, possibly because I just made it up, but kangaroos invented that wedding reception favorite, the bunny hop.
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posted on
04/05/2021 2:58:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Fun fact: you can hunt kangaroos in Oz
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:02:32 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead...)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Sure, but how would aim the house?
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:07:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Definitely a male kangaroo.
No pouch is depicted, but a pecker is.
(male kangaroos have no pouch)
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:09:03 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: SunkenCiv
That takes real skill. Most folks just throw water on them.
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:10:11 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ )
To: SunkenCiv
What are the ingredients of that 13,000 year old paint?
Today’s paint won’t last but a few years.
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:13:26 PM PDT
by
deport
( )
To: SunkenCiv
But even more strange is the drawing on the wall of Joe Xiden sniffing the Kangaroo’s back.
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:27:15 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Track9
A lot of things go together with Australia. All of them deadly.
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:29:20 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: aMorePerfectUnion
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:30:57 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
To: BykrBayb
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:38:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
04/05/2021 3:47:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
I’ve eaten kangaroo meat. It’s terrible.
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