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Hi Jeremy
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:34:31 +1100
> From: Jeremy Bradley <jeremyb@nor.com.au>
> Subject: RE: Rumsfeld Says...
>
> At 10:18 PM 10/03/02 +0000, you wrote:
> Snip.........>
>> The art is in the Kimberley region and is know as the the Bradshaw
>> formations after the rancher that discovered them. most are uncatalogued.
>>
>> This was in New Scientist 19th May, 2001, No. 2291.
>>
>> 2 websites, which i have not checked are cited and these are;
>>
>> www.BradshawFoundation.com
>>
>> www.bradshaw.dk
>>
>> Sorry i could not be more of a help.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Steve
>>
> That's OK Steve
> I thought that it was the so-called Bradshaws that you were talking about.
No they were not the ones i was thinking about. I just came across them
while i was trying to find the one i was on about (with no success).
> I saw them some years ago. It is true that they are very old, and that they
> are dissimilar to other art. However it is a contentious suggestion that
> they were painted by another race which predates Aboriginal occupation.
> Bradshaw claimed that the art was to fine to have been drawn by Aboriginals
> as he perceived them as a crude people.
Didn't mean that the idea of a pre Aboriginal people as such, but rather a
tribe that did not survive to modern times. This is presumed because the
style differs from the art that is known. I assume each tribe or group have
their own stories, histories and therefore styles and types of art and which
makes then different from others.
> All I can say to that Steve is there is no evidence that anyone predated
> them. In fact Homo Australus (sp?) is the oldest modern hominoid yet found.
Mungo Man?
> Thanks for your time.
> Jeremy
Regards
Steve.
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