Deep in the Cape York wilderness, rock art believed to have been painted by some of the first people to arrive in Australia tens of thousands of years ago is waiting to be rediscovered.
A $1.34 million grant from the Australian Research Council will see an expert team of scientists spend the next five years reassessing the catalogued examples of what is known as Quinkan art.
They will also work with local communities to rediscover sites which have been lost to them through displacement by European settlement.