Australian Aboriginals

The Australian Aboriginals where the very first people in Australia and they are amazing! At least I think that they are.

When did Aboriginals come to Australia?

The First people to come to Australia where from southeast Asia. Nobody knows exactly when they came but the best estimate is about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago!

How and what did Aboriginals hunt?

Aboriginals hunted a lot, but what they hunted depended of where they lived. Aboriginals tribes near coastlines would hunt big sea life animals like Dugongs, Turtles and Whales, but an aboriginal tribe in desert land would hunt for large kangaroos and Emus. Aboriginals mainly hunted with spears and knives while catching seafood but while hunting for on-land animals they used a strait non-returning boomerang to damage kangaroos legs and to kill Emus. As well as eating meat aboriginals
also ate edible plants and insects.

What's Dreamtime?

Aboriginals Believed that they had human, plant and animal ancestors that created the whole world and everything in it, if someone dies they will be reborn as a plant or another person.

Art?

Aboriginal art is usually about dreamtime and is done at most of the dreamtime ceremonies. Paintings of spirits, animals and humans of dreamtime cover sacred rocks and cliffs near Aboriginal tribes.

Boomerangs?

Aboriginals invented the boomerang around 8000bc but they also invented a non-returning straight boomerang for hunting.