A survey of 165 rock art sites at Awunbarna finds the densest known concentration of recent Rainbow Serpent paintings in the region, and its authors argue that painting Rainbow Serpents at such a size was a response to the cultural change Europeans brought.
Twenty of the 52 recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings known from all of western Arnhem Land sit inside one 27 square kilometre patch of Amurdak Country, where the largest runs 6.1 metres across a shelter ceiling and the recent paintings average more than twice the length of the older ones
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