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May 8, 2026
DISCOVER: Into the Wild - A Road Trip Through Australia's Northern Territory
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8:13Aaron MillarHOST
But what Arnhem Land offers goes deeper than wilderness because embedded in these rocks, in the overhangs and caves and great sandstone panels of the escarpment, is the largest known collection of rock art in the world, galleries upon galleries of it, tens of thousands of years of human history pressed into stone.
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8:34Greg NationGUEST
Ultimately, there's many different styles of art, and a lot of them coincide with different climatic changes over tens of thousands of years.
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8:43Greg NationGUEST
There are petroglyphs here, which is basically where it's carved into the rock, not so much in, in so much as pictures.
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8:49Greg NationGUEST
It's more sort of smaller holes like pock holes, and, and often it's things like where they'd sharpen a spear or similar.
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10:37Aaron MillarHOST
But why here? Why is the arts of this place more prolific than anywhere else on Earth? The answer, Greg says, is simpler than you might think.