"Someone told me recently that ‘rock art is dead.’ If ‘Art’ was dead, that would not matter to we Aborigines. We have never thought of our rock-paintings as ‘Art.’ To us they are IMAGES. IMAGES with ENERGIES that keep us ALIVE—EVERY PERSON, EVERYTHING WE STAND ON, ARE MADE FROM; EAT AND LIVE ON.
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Instead of talking about ‘Rock Art’, we should be thinking about our responsibility to keep all things of Nature alive, to STIMULATE those places the way Aborigines have always done in the past."
This is a quote from the well-known statement about 'rock art' by David Mowaljarlai (Mowanjum community, Western Australia).
Mowaljarlai, David, Patricia Vinnicombe, Graeme K. Ward, and Christopher Chippindale. 1988. “Repainting of images on rock in Australia and the maintenance of Aboriginal culture”. Antiquity 62 (237): 690-696.
Historically low river levels in Manaus in Brazilian Amazon caused by severe drought reveal submerged ancient rock art that hasn't been visible since 2010
The Swedish Rock Art Research Archive (SHFA) has launched a new digital platform for their collection. The database includes more than 24,000 digitized images. Apart from the digitalised archival materials, there are high resolution images (#IIIF), laser scans, 3D etc available as CC-BY-ND.