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1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 min. 1 sec.) ; 350463763 bytes |
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*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program contains images and voices of people who have died*Over 9,000 years ago agriculture started in different parts of the planet: the Middle East, China and greater Australia in the Highlands of New Guinea, still then attached to the mainland. As seas rose, agriculture spread to the Torres Strait Islands but on mainland Australia people rejected it.They chose instead to carefully manipulate the available natural plants and animals to greatly increase their food resources. In Queensland's rainforest people learned how to remove the poison from some of the forest's most abundant toxic nuts. In Victoria a huge communal aquaculture system was engineered. Thousands of people lived in stone houses in settled villages. Fire stick farming was used all around Australia to create habitats that encouraged particular plants and animals. Eucalypt forest everywhere was burned to create deliberate grass lanes that were used to lure and trap kangaroos.Here, people created something unique in human history: they transformed an entire continent into the biggest estate on earth - fully sustainable into the future until outsiders arrived. First, Maccassan traders from Indonesia then the Dutch, followed by the English, who came to stay in 1788.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Produced, written and directed by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean of Contact Films |
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Broadcast 2013-08-04 at 21:25:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric.
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Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs.
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Prehistoric peoples -- Historiography.
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Torres Strait Islanders.
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Australia.
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New Guinea.
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Streaming video
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Butler, Martin, director
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Dean, Bentley, director
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Dingo, Ernie, cast
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Gammage, Bill, contributor
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Kundil, Ru, contributor
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Lami, Ronald Lami, contributor
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Mandui, Herman, contributor
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McNiven, Ian, contributor
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Patterson, Timmy, contributor
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Repu, Cygnet, contributor
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Saunders, Ken, contributor
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Wolombi, Silas, contributor
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