Kimberley Visions: Rock Art Style Provinces of North Australia

This project contains rock art and excavation data from the NE Kimberley, providing a critical link in the Kimberley-Arnhem Land nexus. Working with Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, Rangers, and partners over 1,350 sites have been located and recorded. More than 80,000 high resolution photographs and several thousand ‘meta-data’ records are being researched with an access-controlled database. These sites include rock art, historic campsites, ochre sources, stone arrangements, quarries and living sites. The sites are from the Drysdale, King George and Forrest River catchments with additional research areas along the coast and in the Pentecost Ranges.

The Kimberley Visions Project (LP150100490) is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project between Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the Kimberley Foundation Australia, Western Australia’s Department of Parks and Wildlife, Dunkeld Pastoral and the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management (CRAR+M) at the University of Western Australia (UWA).

本数据集涵盖北金伯利（NE Kimberley）地区的岩画与考古发掘数据，是金伯利-阿纳姆地（Kimberley-Arnhem Land）关联研究网络中的关键纽带。本项目与巴拉加拉原住民公司（Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation）、护林员及合作方协同推进，已定位并记录超过1350处遗址。目前正依托权限受控数据库，对8万余张高分辨率照片以及数千条元数据（meta-data）记录开展研究工作。上述遗址涵盖岩画、历史营地、赭石矿源、石构遗存、采石场与居住遗址，分布于德赖斯代尔（Drysdale）、金乔治（King George）与福里斯特河（Forrest River）流域，另有拓展研究区域覆盖沿海地带及彭特科斯特山脉（Pentecost Ranges）。金伯利愿景项目（Kimberley Visions Project，项目编号LP150100490）是澳大利亚研究理事会（Australian Research Council, ARC）合作研究项目，合作方包括巴拉加拉原住民公司、莫纳什大学、墨尔本大学、澳大利亚金伯利基金会、西澳大利亚州公园与野生动物部、邓克尔德牧业公司，以及西澳大利亚大学（University of Western Australia, UWA）下属的岩画研究与管理中心（Centre for Rock Art Research and Management, CRAR+M）。