Wollemi rock art shows Aboriginal Dreaming Archaeologists
surveying rugged bushland outside Sydney have discovered
evidence that an ancient Aboriginal Dreaming track runs through
wilderness where the Jurassic-era Wollemi Pine was found.
Dreaming tracks record the journey of spirit ancestors as they
moved through the landscape, transforming ancestral lands and
laying down the laws. Around 1000 known tracks are believed to
exist, mainly in central and northern Australia, says Professor
Paul Tašon of Griffith University, whose work was presented at
an archaeology conference in Western Australia this week. Tašon
says a survey of Wollemi National Park west of Sydney, beginning
in September 2004, has found numerous paintings and engravings.
"We found dozens of previously unrecorded rock art sites," he
says. "It appears that a traditional Aboriginal travel route,
possibly a Dreaming track, runs across Wollemi National Park."
He says the rock art evidence suggests that there must once have
been Dreaming tracks across