Editing Didgeridoo (section)

==History==
There are no reliable sources of the exact age of the didgeridoo. Archaeological studies suggest that people of the [[Kakadu National Park|Kakadu]] region in Northern Australia have been using the didgeridoo for less than 1,000 years, based on the dating of [[rock art]] paintings.<ref name="PBP"/> A clear rock painting in Ginga Wardelirrhmeng, on the northern edge of the [[Arnhem Land]] plateau, from the freshwater period<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/kakadu/culture-history/art/styles.html |title=Kakadu National Park – Rock art styles |access-date=21 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421050045/http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/kakadu/culture-history/art/styles.html |archive-date=21 April 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> (that had begun 1500 years ago)<ref>{{cite book |last1= Sayers |first1= Andrew |year= 2001 |orig-year= 2001 |title= Australian Art (Oxford History of Art) |type= paperback |publisher= Oxford University Press, USA |publication-date= 19 July 2001 |page= [https://archive.org/details/australianart00saye/page/19 19] |isbn= 978-0192842145 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/australianart00saye/page/19 }}</ref> shows a didgeridoo player and two song-men participating in an Ubarr ceremony.<ref>[[George Chaloupka]], ''Journey in Time'', p. 189.</ref> It is thus thought that it was developed by Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia, possibly in [[Arnhem Land]].

T. B. Wilson's ''Narrative of a Voyage Round the World'' (1835) includes a drawing of an Aboriginal man from Raffles Bay on the [[Cobourg Peninsula]] (about {{convert|350|km}} east of [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]]) playing the instrument. Others observed such an instrument in the same area, made of [[bamboo]] and about {{convert|3|ft|1}} long. In 1893, English palaeontologist [[Robert Etheridge, Junior]] observed the use of "three very curious trumpets" made of bamboo in northern Australia. There were then two native species of bamboo growing along the [[Adelaide River, Northern Territory]]".<ref name =culture/>

According to [[A. P. Elkin]], in 1938, the instrument was "only known in the eastern [[Kimberley (Western Australia)|Kimberley]] [region in Western Australia] and the northern third of the [[Northern Territory]]".<ref name=arts>{{cite web | title=History of the Didgeridoo Yidaki | website=Aboriginal Arts | url=http://www.aboriginalarts.co.uk/historyofthedidgeridoo.html | access-date=21 January 2020 | archive-date=3 March 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303233726/http://www.aboriginalarts.co.uk/historyofthedidgeridoo.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>