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Much of this landscape with its minute Gandangara toponymic descriptions considered to be "one of the best documented Aboriginal cultural landscapes", was submerged with the construction of the Warragamba Dam after WW2. [21] At that time animals were human, and collectively the animal people of that pristine world were known as Burringilling.
Appletree Aboriginal Area, 75 km (47 mi) north-west of Newcastle. A group of rock shelters with hand stencils and paintings of human figures. Listed on the Register of the National Estate. [12] Baiame Cave, Milbrodale. A large rock shelter with paintings of a human figure plus objects like boomerangs. Listed on the Register of the National ...
Pantjiti Mary McLean was born circa 1930 in Kaltukatjara, Docker River, Western Australia. [1] She met her husband Mr. Bates at Blackstone. [2] In the 1950s she left the Western Desert walking with her husband and son to the Warburton Ranges, and then to Cosmo Newbury in the Eastern Goldfields. [3]
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is a national movement of international significance with work by Indigenous artists, including paintings by those from the Western Desert, achieving widespread critical acclaim. Because naming conventions for Indigenous Australians vary widely, this list is ordered by first name rather than surname.
The Blue Labyrinth is an area covering much of the southern part of Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, Australia.It spans an area south of the Great Western Highway from Wentworth Falls to Glenbrook, stretching from Kings Tableland in the west to Warragamba Dam and the Nepean River in the east, and the Burragorang Valley to the south.
Gundungurra Tribal Council Aboriginal Corporation has had a registered Native Title Claim since 1995 over their traditional lands which include the Blue Mountains and surrounding areas. Katoomba is the home of local community radio station 89.1 Radio Blue Mountains. The local cinema is called The Edge, located on the Great Western Highway.
Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity first started to occur in the Sydney area from around 30,735 years ago (28,724 BCE). However, numerous Aboriginal stone tools were found in Western Sydney's gravel sediments that were dated from 45,000 to 50,000 years BP, which would indicate that there was human settlement in Sydney earlier than ...
Haasts Bluff, where Makinti lived in the 1940s and 1950s. Makinti Napanangka's year of birth is uncertain, but several sources [4] [5] [6] indicate she was born around 1930, although other sources indicate she may have been born as early as 1922 or as late as 1932 [b] at a location described by some sources as Lupul rockhole [9] [11] [14] but by one major reference work as Mangarri. [8]