HIST1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ochre, Lake Mungo Remains, Songline
• Week One
• Lecture 1.2: Aboriginal Australia
• Lecture Summary
• Part One
• Starting point?
• Sources
• Limitations
• Part Two
• Arrivals
• Movement
• Rituals
• Hunter-gatherer versus agriculture
• Focus Questions
• What sources can we use to construct an image of pre-contact Aboriginal society?
• What do we know about the cultural life of Aboriginal peoples prior to 1788?
• Were Aboriginal groups hunter-gatherers or did they cultivate the land?
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PART ONE
When Does Australian History Start?
• A Timeless Land,
A Timeless People?
• Perception: static, timeless, unchanging
• Unfamiliar history: no written accounts, no clear moments of change
• Reality: archaeology and oral histories show people adapting to dramatic environmental
change
• Changed by and changed the landscape
• British possession and dispossession: misperception or deliberate forgetting?
• SOURCES (1)
• Archaeological:
• Physical artefacts (tools, remains, rock carvings)
• Mass movements of people
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