Aboriginal rock art and cultural heritage management in Cape York Peninsula

约克角半岛的劳拉砂岩盆地拥有澳大利亚和世界上最丰富的岩石艺术遗迹之一。它记录了几代澳大利亚原住民的生活方式，从他们最初的定居点，到重大的环境变化，再到欧洲人的入侵。这片广袤的区域，其中大部分现在由传统的所有者作为国家公园共同管理，几乎仍然没有在考古上被开发。该项目旨在记录这一独特的岩石艺术，以便为子孙后代保留它的见证。这将为其可持续管理提供一个框架，研究结果将对我们理解最早殖民澳大利亚的现代人的文化行为和传播具有深远的影响。

The Laura Sandstone Basin of Cape York Peninsula hosts one of the richest bodies of rock art in Australia and the world. It documents the life-ways of generations of Aboriginal Australians from their original settlement, through major environmental changes, to European invasion. This vast area, much of which is now jointly managed as National Parks by Traditional Owners, remains virtually unexplored archaeologically. This project aims to record this unique rock art so that its testimony remains for future generations. This will provide a framework for its sustainable management and findings will have profound implications for our understandings of the cultural behaviour and dispersal of the earliest modern humans to colonise Australia.