The recognition, interpretation and management of significant rock art and related dreaming (Jukurrpa) sites on the Canning Stock Route, Western Australia

This project will assess the significance of rock art complexes and associated mythological sites (Jukurrpa) along the Canning Stock Route. This region was inhabited by the last groups of Indigenous people to come into contact with settler societies (1963-1976). The high degree of stylistic variability, age-depth and aesthetic value of the art, and an understanding of their meanings to Western Desert custodians, make this series of major art provinces nationally and internationally significant and worthy of strategic management.