AR06_C01: 22 April 2003.
Copyright © 2003 by Kevin Sharpe and Leslie Van Gelder. All rights reserved.
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KS: Gather material; good outline or bullets
LVG: Rewrites

Chapter One

Severines

This chapter describes severines, initially focusing on Koonalda Cave in the Nullarbor Plain, South Australia. We also review the markings present in other Australian sites such as Orchestra Shell Cave, Cutta Cutta Cave, Kintore Cave, and caves in the Mount Gambier region, spotlighting the controversy that surrounds the authenticity of some of these markings – that is, whether humans or animals made them.

Then we describe European severines – looking at the history of their discovery and, in research terms, their relative neglect. Representational images are easier for us moderns to understand and so these pictures have eclipsed severines in publications and research – which has lead to their ‘sub-status’ in European rock art studies.