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Originally Posted by meeera
Many of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia were not nomadic, had established villages and long-standing agriculture/aquaculture fields and structures and land management practices. They were grinding grain and baking bread long before anyone in the Middle East or Europe was. They had (and still have) incredibly complex and generationally-transmitted knowledge and stories though oral tradition, songs, dance, and visual art.
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Also, the following book might be an interesting read.
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Pictures From My Memory is a compelling and accessible autobiographical account of Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis’ life as a Ngaatjatjarra woman from the Australian Western Desert.
Born in the bush at the time of first contact between her family and White Australians, Ellis’s vivid personal reflections offer both an historical record and profound emotional insight into her unique experience of being woven between cultures — her Aboriginal community and the Western worlds.
The book is preceded by an introduction and followed by an anthropological overview of Ngaatjatjarra culture by anthropologist Laurent Dousset.
https://aiatsis.gov.au/publications/...ok-epub-kindle
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