Scientists have adopted a novel technique using wasp nests to estimate the age of previously undateable rock art, called Gwions, in the Kimberly region of Western Australia. The results appear to ...

That investigation dated the time since quartz particles in a mud wasp nest overlying a Gwion figure were last exposed to sunlight. But some rock art researchers disagree about whether that age ...

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.

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 ...

Lead author and archaeologist from the University of New England, Dr June Ross, said results from dating the wasp nests overlying the artworks confirmed the origin of the rock art was "indeed ...

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 ...