Table 1 Site descriptions.
Site | Situational context | Rock art details |
|---|---|---|
DE-SH2 (DAA 20444) | Extensive rockshelter with an easterly aspect at the base of a low escarpment overlooking a gentle colluvial slope | Four separate panels at the shelter: two in the main chamber, one on the exterior wall and the fourth in the second chamber. The art in the main chamber consists of a red hand print on the wall and a roof fall block on the floor with pecked pits and an engraved bird track. On an exterior wall between the two chambers is a faint yellow painted geometric motif (tally marks) and in the second chamber is another painted set of yellow tally marks |
DF-SH1 | Large shelter located above a small creek line | Five separate panels including pigment art and pecked pits. Engraved (pecked) pits are located on a large piece of roof fall. Pigment art consists of a large white geometric motif at the front of the shelter, two other panel containing geometric motifs in white and red pigment |
RR21 | Site complex in an open gorge context with four vertical faces of pigment art and 2 rockshelters containing art and/or ochre | Yellow and quite painted motifs (126) predominantly anthropomorphic figures: linear (stick) figures, solid figures, and groups of anthropomorphic figures. Geometric motifs include linear geometrics and parallel lines |