Maori Rock-Carvings
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Additional Discoveries of Aboriginal Rock Carvings in Tasmania
After several visits to the area rock workings were found on the southern slope of a high dolerite ridge known locally as "Billy Blue". They were ona large sand-stone rock measuring approximately sixty yards long and four yards wide. It faced west and was on the eastern bank of a creek bed which, though normally dry, has a permanent soakage at its mouth some fifty yards below the carved rock. A...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1926
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/117156a0