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| Author: Alexa | 10 April 2009 | Views: 208 |
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The key to Australian ancient history under water?
Author: David Nutley, Department for Environment & Heritage, Australia
Source: The UNESCO Courier 2009 - number 1
As the world’s largest island and smallest continent, Australia is relatively isolated. For tens of thousands of years Aboriginal Australians developed distinct cultures in relative stability. Major wars, invasions, mass migrations and cultural upheavals bypassed this land – at least until the 18th century.
When European explorers began arriving on Australian shores in the 1600s they attempted to describe Aboriginal Australians; this continued during the colonisation of Australia from 1788. But Aboriginal languages, artistic representations of their reality and Aboriginal relationship to the land meant nothing to the new arrivals. The cultures were so different that European descriptions were, for the most part, vague, misleading or inaccurate. Although the accounts are valuable references, we cannot depend on them. |
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