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Evidence suggests that humans first arrived in Australia approximately 60,000 years ago. These people are purported to have traveled from south-east Asia across the land bridges to northern Australia. Archaeologists have now discovered early occupation sites at the three most probable entry areas - the Kimberley, Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula.

In the North of Australia these first humans faced an harsh environment, with wild weather and animals. People made homes in Sandstone caves, which even today some of these caves show traces of these early inhabitants. Daily living implements, shells, leaves, bark, sticks and stones covered the floor. People soon discovered that ochre provided a great tool to paint and soon were making records of their daily life.

In the case of rock painting, the original Aboriginal Art, dates have been obtained for pigment directly on the walls and for painted fragments buried in deposits of campsite material. Techniques for dating have usually involved radio-carbon dating of material, but there are also newer techniques now available including optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS).

Radiocarbon dating is limited to a maximum age of around 40 000 years, and the newer techniques are required for dating of older materials. AMS is a new radiocarbon dating method enabling the dating of much smaller samples of carbon than the traditional radiocarbon (C-14) method.

With the advent of canvas acrylics and glass it could be argued that Aboriginal art is leaving its roots and hence loosing its history. But there is no fear even today this type of art is using many of the old ingredient, things that have a proven history of recorded use. So even though things that have been dated over 10000 years of history, are sharing the lime light, aboriginal art is still sticking to its past.

As an artefact Aboriginal art has proven itself so one has to ask what about as an investment. The news here is that Native Australian art is starting to really grow in value and appreciate as an investment.

There are so many ways to celebrate art and decorate walls and rooms that , aboriginal art offers something that is original with nearly every one been hand painted on location. Because of this it is much easier to get a painting from a new painter while they are unknown. Image getting an early Albert Namatjira you couldn't not smile.

Once you have your painting you will have your very own authentic aboriginal art and you would have the warm feeling of having chosen it yourself and watching it grow to 50000 dollars. While it is true many of these paintings never reach these heights more and more artist are proving to be popular.

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