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Title: | One Colour, (at Least) Two Minerals: A Study of Mulberry Rock Art Pigment and a Mulberry Pigment 'Quarry' from the Kimberley, Northern Australia | Contributor(s): | Huntley, Jillian Alice (author); Aubert, Maxim (author); Ross, June (author); Brand, Helen E A (author); Morwood, Michael J (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | DOI: | 10.1111/arcm.12073 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16536 | Abstract: | Distinctive mulberry paintings found in northern Australia, particularly those of the Kimberley region, have been argued to represent some of the oldest surviving rock art on the continent. Significant research efforts continue to focus on resolving the age of these motifs, but comparatively little attention has been given to understanding their physical composition and potential source(s). In a pilot investigation, we conclude that (at least) two mineralogically distinct mulberry pigments occur in 'Gwion' motifs and demonstrate that their major components can be indicatively chemically differentiated, non-invasively. Characterization of a 'quarried' mulberry ochre source demonstrates that these pigments occur locally as natural minerals. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/LP0991845 | Source of Publication: | Archaeometry, 57(1), p. 77-99 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1475-4754 0003-813X |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210102 Archaeological Science 210101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology 040306 Mineralogy and Crystallography |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 370501 Biomineralisation 430101 Archaeological science 450101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology 950302 Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage 950503 Understanding Australias Past |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 130703 Understanding Australia’s past |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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