Twenty of the 52 recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings known from all of western Arnhem Land sit inside one 27 square kilometre patch of Amurdak Country, where the largest runs 6.1 metres across a shelter ceiling and the recent paintings average more than twice the length of the older ones
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A Rainbow Serpent in the rock art of western Arnhem Land is a composite creature: a snake body carrying parts borrowed from other animals, most often the head of a macropod, sometimes a crocodile head, sometimes fish fins or human breasts. Rainbow Serpents are Ancestral Beings credited with acts of creation and destruction, and people across the region still tell stories about them.
A survey published in Australian Archaeology has now counted them across one small area of Amurdak Country and fou
A survey published in Australian Archaeology has now counted them across one small area of Amurdak Country and fou
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