Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 3:11 pm
Amazing the Aboriginal people survived here in Australia for 50,000 yrs & never appeared to constructed any type of permanent homes or buildings, certainly lived a nomadic lifestyle.
My g'mother's had several natural remedies for almost everything & grew so many plants & herbs that she used in same, she prepared, made everything very little was purchased from a shop.
Shirley, it's propaganda that all indigenous people were nomads. The nomads were desert dwellers and had to move according to the seasons, for coastal and forest indigenous, they had stone and timber houses and never moved. Of course they traveled to different places to collect seasonal foods, tribal gatherings and for leisure using well designated bush highways which were clearly sign posted and no different to today with people having holiday homes and traveling round the place. In reality, it's modern Aus humans who are closer to nomadic, I believe we change homes about 7 times in our lives on average. Indigenous lived in the place they were born for their entire lives, unless they were outback/desert dwellers then they moved from place to place and those places were the same each season mostly.
They also had agriculture, but they used natural growing and encouraged food plants with fertilisation and watering. Unlike today where humans destroy the land with their intensive chemical growing methods. Somewhere I have a photo and drawing of my grandmothers grandmothers house and it was made of stone and wood. Nothing like todays homes, but at one stage I made one much the same and lived in it in the outer suburbs of Melbourne before being discovered. It consisted of digging a hole into the side of a hill, covering it with branches leaves and bark, with a earthen fire place at the by side of the entrance. the smoke went outside and the heat stayed inside.
In Victoria and NSW there are still remnants of the indigenous stone houses, agricultural workings and fish traps running from rivers and creeks that could be opened or shut off to trap fish and eels. In Tas the Europeans threw the indigenous out of their huge timber and stone dwellings, using them for religious services and in the afternoons after church, hunting and killing indigenous for sport.
Today, sure we have technology, but it's very destructive to the environment and is finite, as we waste everything we use. Indigenous technology revolved round necessity and usefulness and was not harmful to themselves or environment. To me they were much more advanced than us, there is no question about it, they lasted 50000 years and had the country in pristine condition, working with nature. Today after just 200+ years and under the guidance of ideological insanity, the country is on it's last legs and won't recover until most of us are gone.
What make me laugh and cry, is our technology could be so beneficial for the country and future, but when you run everything on elitist profit growth and believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden will save us all, nature and the future have no hope.
Does that mean you got spudded?