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Dampier petroglyph
Dampier petroglyph
This image is presumed to be of the extinct thylacine. If plans to destroy Dampier rock art are allowed to proceed, it will become extinct as well (photo by P. Vinnicombe).

AURANET currently operates two sites soliciting support for saving specific rock art complexes, one on the Guadiana River in southern Portugal, the other in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia. Both properties are very major rock art concentrations, both are under severe threat of destruction by government plans and their continued existence hangs in the balance. It depends largely on the support our petitions to save these irreplaceable cultural monuments can win. Thank you for your support.

The following general discussion or research articles deal with current issues in rock art research. Please open these papers by clicking on the links, but note that these are large files that take a little time to load. Thank you for your patience.

Concerns in rock art science

Save Dampier rock art
The site dedicated to preserving the largest petroglyph concentration in the world

Save Guadiana rock art

The site dedicated to saving the largest petroglyph concentration of Portugal

Rock Art Research

The journal of AURA, IFRAO and CARA

AURA Newsletter

Newsletters of the AURA Homepage
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