| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 min.) : digital, sound, colour |
| Series |
First footprints |
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First footprints
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| Summary |
"From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia. On the Nullarbor up to 100 kilometres of coast was swallowed every generation. The Wadi Nyi Nyi Dreaming Story of the Pitjantjatjara tells of this great flood and how the Ancestral Beings stopped it - possibly the oldest religious story in the world. Similar Dreaming stories are found all around Australia as revealed in the third episode of this four-part series. Across the north of Australia the warming weather brings a regular monsoon. In the Kimberley and Arnhem Land there were cultural explosions in art and technology. The astounding Gwion figures in the Kimberley and the dynamic art of Arnhem Land gives us a detailed insight into a rich life 12,000 years ago. Boomerangs were invented then discarded across the north, as trees replaced grassland. As rising seas flooded coastal plains, conflict and even pitched battles between groups of warriors appear in the art. The earliest battle scenes in the world are in Arnhem Land. Conflict over land appears to have led to the death of Narrabeen Man, the earliest evidence of ritual killing in Australia. His skeleton was found under a bus stop on Sydney's northern beaches. The rising seas filled a river valley to create Sydney Harbour, a rich environment when permanent occupation developed. New Guinea and Tasmania were permanently cut off. The isolation of the Tasmanians had profound consequences on diet, language and technology." -- Informit |
| Notes |
Includes link to study guide |
| Credits |
Producer, writer and director: Martin Butler and Bentley Dean |
| Performer |
Narrator: Ernie Dingo |
| Notes |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the program contains images and voices of people who have died |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009577
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Butler, Martin, director, writer, producer
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Dean, Bently, director, writer, producer
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Dingo, Ernie, narrator
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