IA1 History Revision- Deep Time History

Mungo Man

He was an Aboriginal man who was respectfully buried at Lake Mungo, and he still lived to be 50 years old despite having arthritis- suggesting that he was significant and probably an Elder.

Mungo Lady

She was younger than Mungo Man, but she was also buried at Lake Mungo and was significant, which was determined because she was cremated (the oldest cremation ever).

Out of Africa Theory

According to this theory, the modern human race started in Africa and they migrated to other places due to climate and environment change.

Getting to Sahul and the Arrival of Early Australians

Sahul was an ancient mega-continent that was made up of Australia and New Guinea before the last Ice Ag. Humans got there through land bridges during the last Ice Age.

Discovery at Lake Mungo

Jim Bowler discovered this dried-up and eroded lake that was once home to an Aboriginal community over 40,000 years ago. This Mungo Man and Lady belonged to that community, and they have been discussed above.

Social Structure (kinship/totem)

A system of rules that organises families and social lives, making sure that everyone knew what their responsibilities were within a community.

Dreaming and The Dreamtime

The Dreaming is the worldview that structures many Indigenous cultures, offering Indigenous Australians an ordered sense of reality and a framework for understanding and interpreting the world and their place within it. This worldview explains creation, provides blueprints for life and governs all aspects of life in Indigenous cultures.

Land Management and Sustainability

Cultural burning and preservation of water through rock wells.

Technological Advancements of Australia's First Peoples

Fish traps- when the water runs through the trap, eels get trapped

Explicit

Obvious (Evidence)

Implicit

Implied, suggested (Explain)

Topic sentence, evidence, explain, usefulness, link

Structure