Did the aboriginals do anything remotely extraordinary?
Is there anything the slightest bit worth discussing?
No meme replies or we'll never spark a discussion.
And no, they didn't invent the boomerang.
They lived in a pretty inhospitable landscape, which is pretty cool I guess
Very little in terms of civilisation though
>>321484
Some of the first artwork in the world
Also in one area they built stone huts and farmed eels
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2003/03/13/806276.htm
Not extraordinary, but most people don't know about it
>>321484
>farmed eels
That would take balls. Shame you can't build a civilization of eel meat, tho.
>>321484
The survived on the arguably the shittiest continent on Earth.
>>321484
Why do you say they didn't invent the boomerang, pretty damn sure they came up with idea idea independently to palaeolithic Europe, so not the first, but they did invent it
>>321534
actually it was a garden continent once. aboriginal myth records this. carbon dating later confirmed it. also:
> myths tell of the origins of Lake Eacham, Lake Barrine, and Lake Euramo. Geological research dated the formative volcanic explosions described by Aboriginal myth tellers as having occurred more than 10,000 years ago. Pollen fossil sampling from the silt which had settled to the bottom of the craters confirmed the Aboriginal myth-tellers' story. When the craters were formed, eucalyptus forests dominated rather than the current wet tropical rain forests.
pretty impressive, i think.
They potentially had coexist with Megalania
>Megalania (Megalania prisca or Varanus priscus) is an extinct giant goanna or monitor lizard.[1] They were part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene. They seem to have disappeared sometime after 50,000 years ago.[2] The first aboriginal settlers of Australia might have encountered them.
>>321544
I keep hearing this, where is the evidence?
>>321602
it's a quote from wikipedia. you're not allowed to disagree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_mythology
refute it's sources pls.
>>321484
Some of them used an interesting form of birth control. It Involved poking a hole near the base of the dick,
http://www.heretical.com/bjerre/aborig2.html
>>321602
The east side is green.
>>321585
Pretty sure it's not true, Australia is obviously a very dry country and has plenty of natural bush fires started by lightening, there are many native plant species whose seeds cannot germinate unless they have been subjected to either fire or heat from a fire. Fire has always been part of the Australian environment
And iirc before aboriginals arrived there was a general climatic shift resulting in reduced cover by rainforests and more abundant sclerophyll forests
>>321638
Yes, there are a very few regions that get some rain. The soil is shit though. Australians have to load their fertilizers with shit like phosphorous because most of the minerals in the soil was washed away millions of years ago.
Honestly, their oral histories are pretty damn impressive. They were able to keep alive tens of thousands of years of history and cultural memory through nothing but oral traditions. That's damn impressive, and they did it better than any other culture on the planet.
>>321757
Seems like something one might expect for a culture that stays in one region for as long as they did with little to no contact with the outside world. The eventually all traditions are replaced by those that can last a really long time.
>>321757
From wiki
>Australian Indigenous art is the oldest unbroken tradition of art in the world.
>>321602
Victoria north of Melbourne, across to Ballarat and through to southern South Australia is a large volcanic province, with some 400 volcanoes from 5 MYA, with 20 volcanoes in the last 40,000 years, the most recent being Mount Gambier at about 5 thousand years ago.
>>321484
>Did the aboriginals do anything remotely extraordinary?
40,000 years of burning stick protein environmental management
Victorian aquaculture dams
Woomera.
>>322073
Oh shit, and I forgot, their rock-culture wasn't flint, it was much harder.
>>321757
>>321817
That's actually really interesting. Damn shame how bad they got fucked. Seems to me that people just cannot make the jump from a pre-agricultural society to a super industrialized society with unlimited food and entertainment. Too big of a gap for a culture to have any chance of crossing.
>you will never have Abo beard genetics
why live
>>321757
Especially considering they did it without...I think it's numbers.
If the the entire Earth is reduced to Australia tier habitability, will all of humanity descend into an endless technological doldrum like the Australian aboriginals?
>>324890
>will all of humanity descend into an endless technological doldrum like the Australian aboriginals?
Inventing eel farming, quartz rock culture and protein management by fire isn't a doldrum.
