page_title: Panaramitee Style
section_title: Site Locations
hierarchical_section_title: Panaramitee Style / Site Locations
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of Australia showing the location of sites containing Panaramitee Style rock engravings.
context_page_description: Panaramitee Style, also known as track and circle or Classic Panaramitee, is a particular type of pecked engravings found in Australian rock art. The style, named after a site located in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, depicts a variety of animal tracks including those of macropods, birds and humans as well as radiating designs, circles, spots, crescents and spirals.
context_section_description: The style of petroglyph in discussion was originally identified at a number of sites located on Panaramitee sheep station as seen in figure 2.
  
  The first person to publish about the petroglyphs was Herbert Basedow, having examined several sites from the Panaramitee region. In this publication he also made the first qualified claims for the Pleistocene antiquity of rock art outside of Europe.
  
  In 1976 Lesley Maynard published a paper called An archaeological approach to the study of Australian rock art which divided Australian rock art into three main styles: Panaramitee, simple figurative and complex figurative. These styles were then considered to be chronological, morphing into more advanced styles as time progressed eventually evolving into more sophisticated art. This point of view is no longer widely accepted by the archaeological community.
  Not restricted to South Australia, these engravings have been found in central Australia, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia. Figure 3 shows a map of Australia with black dots indicating recorded Panaramitee-style sites.
  Among these sites include Puritjarra rock shelter, N’Dahla Gorge, Ewaninga and Ooraminna in central Australia, Early Man cave in the Laura region of Queensland and possibly the Nappapethera Waterhole in the southwest of the state, Ingladdi in the Northern Territory, Sturt’s Meadows in New South Wales and Scott River in Western Australia.
  
  There have been some claims for Panaramitee style being present in Tasmania (locations marked on figure 3) however there has been a great deal of speculation being dated to the last 2,000 years which is inconsistent with Tasmania being sundered from the mainland.
caption: Figure 3 a map of Australia showing the location of sites containing Panaramitee Style rock art[2].
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