Vandals Destroyed 8,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Artworks in Tasmania

For millennia, Tasmania’s Nirmena Nala rock shelter has preserved a set of stenciled handprints made by the ancestors of Australia’s Aboriginal people. The delicate ocher handprints have withstood the test of time for thousands of years, yet they likely only took minutes to destroy: in late May, conservationists with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Center (TAC) discovered that the precious artworks had been scratched over by vandals.
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