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Feb. 6 (UPI) --Researchers have used mud wasp nests to narrow the age range of Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Previous surveys suggested some Kimberley painting ...

Mr Finch's team was not the first to enlist the help of mud wasp nests to date rock art in Australia. In the late 1990s, a different Australian team dated wasp nests atop a Kimberley painting to ...

Researchers have used wasp nests that are thousands of years old to date Aboriginal paintings in Western Australia's remote north-west Kimberley region. After a three-year-long project ...

Mud wasp nests collected from Kimberley sites with the permission of traditional owners help scientists establish ancient art rock unique to the area is 12,000 years old not 17,000 years old.