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Red Hands Cave is an
Australian Aboriginal Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia (co ...
rock art In archaeology, rock arts are human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces. A high proportion of surviving historic and prehistoric rock art is found in caves or partly enclosed rock shelters; this type al ...
site in the Blue Labyrinth area of
Blue Mountains National Park The Blue Mountains National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated approximately west of the Sydney CBD, and the park boundary is ...
. It is a
rock shelter A rock shelter (also rockhouse, crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff. In contrast to solutional caves (karst), which are often many miles long or wide, rock shelters are alm ...
located within walking distance from the town of
Glenbrook, New South Wales Glenbrook is a township of the Lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. It is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blue Mountains. As of the 2021 Australian census Glenb ...
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History

The
ochre Ochre ( ; , ), iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. It ranges in colour from yellow to deep orange or brown. It is also the name of the colou ...
handprints and stencils at Red Hands Cave were painted around 500–1,600 years B.P. The cave was first discovered by white Australians on 10 August 1913, when James (Jim) Colquhoun Dunn (1892-1978) went searching for Ruby Gladys Hunter (1892–1973), who became lost in the bush near Glenbrook while collecting wild flowers with her two dogs. Both were Glenbrook residents who were about 21 years old at the time. Ruby Hunter was later found and was able to return home. In the early 1930s, the Blue Mountains Shire Council installed a wire screen fence at the cave to protect it from vandalism.


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Aboriginal sites of New South Wales Aboriginal sites of New South Wales consist of a large number of places in the Australian state of New South Wales where it is still possible to see visible signs of the activities and culture of the Aboriginal Australian peoples who previously ...
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Sydney rock engravings Sydney rock engravings, or Sydney rock art, are a form of Australian Aboriginal rock art in the Sydney sandstone, sandstone around Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that consist of carefully drawn images of people, animals, or symbols. Many tho ...


References

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