Indigenous Australians hunted and gathered a variety of foods. The women gathered seeds, vegetables, fruits and insects while the men hunted animals like kangaroos, lizards, snakes and birds using tools like boomerangs, throwing sticks and spears. Aboriginal Australians also left behind cave carvings and paintings that provide insight into their culture and Dreamtime stories, the complex oral traditions that describe the creation of the land and establish law and customs.
3. FOOD
The women were the principal food gatherers searching for seeds,
vegetables, fruit and witchetty grubs. They used digging sticks and
carried the food in Coolamon's (wooden bowls). Men hunted
kangaroo, lizards, snakes, goanna and small birds with
boomerangs, throwing sticks and spears.
5. CAVE CARVINGS
Aboriginal rock art is part of a tradition of painting and engraving that stretches
back thousands of years. Some of the oldest surviving examples so far found
are the rock engravings in the Pilbara in Western Australia and in the Olary
region of South Australia which may be as much as 40 000 years old
6. DREAMTIME
Dreaming stories vary throughout
same time. Stories cover many
themes about creation of sacred
places law and custom. It is a
complex network of knowledge, faith
and practices that derive from these
creation. It pervades and informs all
spiritual abd physical aspects of an
Indigenous Australian.
