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The Landscape of Blue Mountains Rock-Art: Wollemi National Park Phase 1
The rugged nature of Wollemi National Park makes it an exciting and challenging place to study the region's cultural heritage.
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Most Wollemi archaeological sites are located in stunning settings.
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Not only did we sometimes follow creeks to get to sites but also sometimes we had to walk in them.
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The Project
Wollemi National Park is considered by many people to be the largest remaining wilderness in New South Wales. Certainly it is a rugged and wild place but it also is a cultural landscape with an ancient Aboriginal past. In January 2001 the Australian Museum, in partnership with Aboriginal communities and a wide range of people, began an investigation into Wollemi's cultural heritage, especially rock-art. Since then we have documented dozens of sites across the Wollemi and in other parts of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. It has been an adventure to get to some of these locations but the rewards in terms of what we have found have been fantastic.
The Landscape of Blue Mountain Rock-Art project was designed to contribute toward a better understanding of the cultural heritage of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, especially rock-art of the Wollemi National Park region. The study to date is the first stage of a larger archaeological project. The aims are to better understand the relationship between Blue Mountains region cultural heritage and that of other parts of New South Wales and to describe culture change in the Wollemi region and other parts of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area over the past few thousand years.
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