Deep time dreaming : uncovering ancient Australia / Aboriginal Australians Archaeology Easy to read materials.
Griffiths, Billy,
Deep time dreaming : uncovering ancient Australia / Billy Griffiths. - EasyRead large edition. - xviii, 657 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - - Read how you want 16. . - Read how you want 16. .
Optimized reading formats. Set in 16 point Verdana. Copyright page from the original book.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and belonging. It is about a slow shift in national consciousness: the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many of us relate to this continent and its enduring, dynamic human history.
9780369303004 (paperback)
be2019026291
Aboriginal Australians--History.
Aboriginal Australians--Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.
Archaeology--Australia.
Easy to read materials.
Australia--History--To 1788.
Australia--Antiquities.
Large type books.
994.01
Deep time dreaming : uncovering ancient Australia / Billy Griffiths. - EasyRead large edition. - xviii, 657 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - - Read how you want 16. . - Read how you want 16. .
Optimized reading formats. Set in 16 point Verdana. Copyright page from the original book.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian's inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and belonging. It is about a slow shift in national consciousness: the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many of us relate to this continent and its enduring, dynamic human history.
9780369303004 (paperback)
be2019026291
Aboriginal Australians--History.
Aboriginal Australians--Ethnic identity.
Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.
Archaeology--Australia.
Easy to read materials.
Australia--History--To 1788.
Australia--Antiquities.
Large type books.
994.01