Qualla: Quinkan Rock Art https://qualla.com/quinkan-rock-art en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/w/quinkan-rock-art-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Quinkan Rock Art https://qualla.com/quinkan-rock-art Quinkan Rock Art: Introduction https://qualla.com/quinkan-rock-art/ Photo credit self, Public domain. Look up into the shelters of the Laura sandstone and the figures are waiting. Tall, slender beings stretch toward the rock ceiling, arms long enough, the stories say, to shelter a child or point the way through country. Beside them crouch shorter, heavier shapes, watchful and not to be trusted. These are the Quinkans, and they have looked down from these escarpments for far longer than almost any images made by human hands anywhere on Earth. This is one of the great galleries of the world, and it belongs to people who are still here.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/w/quinkan-rock-art-wp/rjnw-quinkan-rock-art-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Quinkan Rock Art: Timara and Imjim https://qualla.com/quinkan-rock-art/ Photo credit John Hill, CC BY-SA 4.0. Quinkan Country takes its name from these spirit beings, and they come in two kinds. The Timara are the tall ones, guardians who watch over the living and especially over children, a gentle but unyielding presence keeping an eye on anyone who strays toward danger. The Imjim, some...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/w/quinkan-rock-art-wp/rjnw-quinkan-rock-art-timara-and-imjim.mp3 0:06 2 full Quinkan Rock Art: Deep Time on Stone https://qualla.com/quinkan-rock-art/ Photo credit MichaelGG at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The scale here resists easy comprehension. Across vast stretches of rugged sandstone plateau southeast of Laura, archaeologists have dated evidence of Aboriginal occupation to around 34,000 years ago, with rock art reaching back tens of thousands of years. A 1980 heritage assessm...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/w/quinkan-rock-art-wp/rjnw-quinkan-rock-art-deep-time-on-stone.mp3 0:06 3 full Quinkan Rock Art: When the Miners Came https://qualla.com/quinkan-rock-art/ Photo credit John Hill, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the 1870s the Palmer River gold rush drove thousands of European and Chinese miners straight through this country, churning between the goldfields and the port at Cooktown. The collision was violent. Aboriginal people defending their land met armed parties and the machinery of...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/j/n/w/quinkan-rock-art-wp/rjnw-quinkan-rock-art-when-the-miners-came.mp3 0:06 4 full Quinkan Rock Art: The Keepers of the Country https://qualla.com/quinkan-rock-art/ Photo credit Ianpwhite, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two brothers carried that responsibility through the modern era. George Musgrave, a Kuku Thaypan elder and renowned bush tracker who died in 2006, and Tommy George, who died in 2016, gave their lives to protecting the rock art and to teaching younger Traditional Owners the storie...

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