Discovering Aboriginal Australia / Trish Albert
- Bib ID:
- 4560912
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Albert, Trish
- Description:
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- Australia : Rigby/Pearson Education, 2008
- 24 p. : ill., ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781442509023
- 9780731274093
- Series:
- First Australians ; plenty stories.
- Summary:
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In Discovering Aboriginal Australia we discover amazing facts about Australia's human history as we journey through time. We also learn why sites or places are culturally significant and continue to be special to Aboriginal people today.
- Full contents:
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- Yesterday, today and tomorrow
- Types of evidence
- Important Aboriginal sites
- Ancient human footprints at Lake Mungo
- Bone points at Devil's Lair
- Rock art at Puritjarra Rock shelter
- Boomerangs at Wyrie Swamp
- Rock art at Preminghana
- Stone axes at Calton Hills Station
- Meet an archaeologist
- What does the land mean to you?
- Notes:
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- Cover title.
- Includes index.
- In collaboration with the National Museum of Australia.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Western Australia
- Sites - Conservation and protection
- Sites - Sites of significance
- Education - Teaching - Materials
- Sites - Middens
- Material culture
- Education - Primary
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Lake Mungo / Walls of China (Willandra SW NSW SI54-08)
- Calton Hills (Qld Far NW SF54-01)
- Devils Lair (SW WA SI50-09)
- Puritjarra (South Central NT SF52-16)
- Wyrie Swamp (SE SA SJ54-06)
- Preminghana / Mount Cameron West (NW Tas SK55-03)
- Other authors/contributors:
- National Museum of Australia
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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