Burrup Rock Art. Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art of Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago
Mount Lawley, Wildrocks Publications, 2009.
Square quarto, 516 pages with several maps and diagrams and over 600 colour illustrations (all but two of them from photographs by Mike Donaldson).
Blind-decorated cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
The many illustrations 'reveal the diverse imagery, including: marine fauna from the last 8000 years, when the sea level returned to its current position after the last ice age; land animals such as goannas and the now-extinct thylacine (Tasmanian tiger); motifs with spiritual meanings associated with "Dreamtime" or earth creation stories; and haunting "archaic faces" that are believed to have been produced more than 20,000 years ago when the Burrup hills were elevated places in a flat, arid landscape more than 100 kilometres from the coast' (dustwrapper blurb).
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