The artist of Aboriginal Art tells of their beliefs, their spirituality and stories of creation. Aboriginal Art basically involves story telling of rituals, magic, sorcery and myths. To the Aboriginal people, the past is very much alive and will continue to be. The basis of the art is on ancestral spirts arriving in a land with no features and creating life. This included the rivers, plants, animals, hills and people. They then changed into landforms, stars, animals and other objects.

It is said that Aborignal rock art is 40,000 years old or more. This exceeds the age of the Egyptian Pyramids five times. Did greater economic and social complexity produce our first information revolution or was this due to transition due to new capacities for abstract thinking and complex speech? It has recently been suggested from discoveries that artistic ability did not evolve but appeared explosively. It gives us information about material culture, economy, environment change, social activities, religion and myth. One problem though when obtaining such inforamtion is identifying the subject. The images can be interpreted in many different ways.