Lost world of the Kimberley
Subtitle: extraordinary glimpses of Australia's Ice Age ancestors
By: Ian Wilson
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781741152302
Subjects: Rock paintings; ART; Cave paintings; Aboriginal Australians; History; Antiquities; General
Description: Explores one of the world's least known mysteries: who were the first-ever human beings to find their way to Australia, where did they come from and how and when did they arrive?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-307) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Title page; Contents; Author's preface; Chapter 1 Drop-in at Reindeer Rock; Chapter 2 Early rock art encounters; Chapter 3 Modern-day encounters; Chapter 4 Twenty-nine in a boat; Chapter 5 Hands of time; Chapter 6 'Mother' and her 'dogs'; Chapter 7 'Breadbaskets' and puppets; Chapter 8 Boat design pioneers; Chapter 9 Time of the spears; Chapter 10 Odes to the boomerang; Chapter 11 A Bradshaw 'Lost City'?; Chapter 12 Follow that river; Chapter 13 Putting people to the paintings; Chapter 14 Putting dates to the paintings; Chapter 15 Putting genes to the paintings