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The Landscape of Blue Mountains Rock-Art: Wollemi National Park Phase 1

Text by Paul S.C. Taçon, Australian Museum
All photographs taken by Paul Taçon unless otherwise stated.

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 project
• The team
• Preliminary results
• The known: 'Emu Cave'
• The unknown: 'Quad Pad'
• The reported: 'Eagle's Reach'
• Protecting heritage
• Future Plans
• Acknowledgements

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