[00:03.16]Unit 12 Culture Shock Culture corner

[00:06.92]Australia Aborigines-the Native Australians

[00:10.94]Aborigines probable came to Australia

[00:13.25]from Indonesia 50,000 years ago.

[00:16.38]The oldest bone found in Australia

[00:18.78]was at Lake Mungo in New South Wales.

[00:21.92]Scientists believe it is 38 000 years old

[00:25.87]and it carried some ceremonial paint.

[00:29.12]Aborigines were nomads.

[00:31.25]Originally,they didn't have a sense

[00:33.54]of land ownership,

[00:34.98]although Aboriginal children were taught

[00:37.17]from an early age that they belonged

[00:39.33]to the land and must respect tribal boundaries.

[00:42.89]Tribes returned to particular places

[00:45.11]to bury their dead.

[00:46.75]Some places, like Uluru.

[00:49.15]were sacred because they were associated

[00:51.28]with the "Dreamtime",

[00:53.14]the time when the Earth was formed

[00:54.87]and cycles of life and nature began.

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