There are thousands of sites of pigment art, stencils and engravings across the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, known only to a handful of Indigenous people, bushwalkers and archaeologists. The summer bushfires exposed these Indigenous artefacts and the race is now on to save them from neglect.

Wayne Brennan, an archaeologist and rock art specialist with Gamilaroi ancestry, has spent 40 years walking the ridges and gullies of the mountains from the Wollemi in the north to the Kanangra Walls in the south. He worked for National Parks, fought fires and is now a fellow of the Australian Museum.

"Myself and many others over the years have located sites, recorded them, but there is so much more to be done," he says.

"There has been very little dating, nothing like enough research, and there is so much more to be found."

Read more on the original article by James Valentine on the ABC news website:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-07/bushfire-exposed-indigenous-art-we-must-save-from-neglect/12322258