澳洲土着文化.docVIP

澳洲土著文化 Welcome to .au Australian Aboriginal culture varies throughout the continent and people from different regions have different Ancestral Beings, different tools, weapons, basketry and different art styles. Since the arrival of Macassan (Indonesian) on northern Australian shores after 1700 AD, and later European colonisation in 1788, Aboriginal culture has evolved and changed further. This site looks at how Aboriginal culture was at the time of European arrival, beginning with the record of a man who was shipwrecked in 1846 and survived 17 years with Aborigines in northern Queensland. This account is combined with images from the same region taken from the 1890s. Click on “ HYPERLINK .au/regionalstudies.shtml Regional Studies” to see how people lived at this time. These images are available in the book, 17 Years Wandering Among the Aboriginals, which can be purchased here on line. Later in 2007 early accounts and images from the Kimberley in Western Australia and from Central Australia will be added to this site. Australian Aborigines are renowned for their bush survival skills. One such skill is the ability to make fire simply from rubbing two sticks of wood together. This is an ancient skill which modern man has lost. The publication, Making Fire, has both ethnographic details on Aboriginal and other indigenous people’s fire making methods, and is a practical guide teaching how to really achieve this skill. INTRODUCTION TO AUSTRALIAS ABORIGINAL CULTURE Australias Aboriginal culture probably represents the oldest surviving culture in the world, with the use of stone tool technology and painting with red ochre pigment dating back over 60,000 years. Australians never developed an iron age, bronze age, or pottery, and the terms palaeolithic (old stone age) and neolithic (new stone age) are not used in Australia, because stone technology did not progress in the same way as the rest of the world. Humankinds most ancient stone tool technology, the percussion meth