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Australia's largest collection of standing stones is said to be at Murujuga, also known as the Burrup Peninsula or the Dampier Archipelago, in Western Australia, which includes tall standing stones similar to the European menhirs, as well as circular stone arrangements. Part of the Yirrkala stone arrangement representing a Macassan fishing boat
Marree Man was created between 27 May 1998, when NASA's Landsat-5 satellite showed the site undisturbed, and 12 June 1998, when the completed figure was visible. Comparative satellite images of the Marree Man site: left, 27 May 1998; right, 12 June 1998. In August 2016, work was carried out to redefine the geoglyph using a grader assisted by ...
Nargun, fierce half-human, half-stone creature of Gunai legend; Thinan-malkia, evil spirit who captures victims with nets that entangle their feet; Tiddalik, frog of southeast Australian legend who drank all the water in the land, and had to be made to laugh to regurgitate it; Waang, Kulin trickster, culture hero and ancestral being ...
Stone artefacts scattered on the ground, Paroo River, Central Queensland. Cutting tools made of stone and grinding or pounding stones were also used as everyday items by Aboriginal peoples. [28] [29] Cutting tools were made by hammering a core stone into flakes. [29] [30] Grinding stones can include millstones and mullers. [31]
Namarrkon is the lightning man. Namarrkon soaks up the sun's rays, which form bright arcs of light across each of his shoulders. He is mostly unseen, living high in the sky and riding storm clouds. He makes thunderous sounds by striking the clouds with stone axes fixed to his head, elbows, and knees. [5]
The remnants of improvised defensive walls and stone shelters built by Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island are Australia's oldest known European structures, [2] [3]: 37 [4] more than a century and a half before expeditions to the Australian continent by James Cook and Arthur Phillip. [1] The remnants of "the fort ...
Nov. 3—Parting Stone, the Santa Fe company that solidifies cremated remains into rounded stones, is growing beyond North America. In just three years, founder and CEO Justin Crowe's business has ...
A kurdaitcha, or kurdaitcha man, also spelt gadaidja, cadiche, kadaitcha, karadji, [1] or kaditcha [2] (Arrernte orthography: kwertatye), is a type of shaman and traditional executioner amongst the Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group in Central Australia. The name featherfoot is used to denote the same figure by other Aboriginal peoples. [3] [4]