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Rock art types include painting, stencil and engravings. Painting is generally in a figurative style, with people, animals and their tracks and mythical beings are depicted, usually in one or two colours.
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dominates although white, yellow, black and a rare blue pigment also exist. Engravings of both figurative and abstract styles are found throughout
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Quinkan region also includes story places, campsites and other evidence of Aboriginal people's long occupation history. In the 1870s the
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