Deep time dreaming

  • Ideas of time

    • In history people did not think about time the say way

    • Archibishop james ussher claims the world started on oct 23 4004bc

    • The western idea of the clase of time bloomed in the 19th century

      • now we think in terms of big bang

  • Idea of deep time

    • Claims humans are only a small part of history

    • the idea that the time of the earth is way bigger than the time humans been here

    • Some cultures already had an idea of deep time

      • Aborginal australian company been thinking like this forever

    • Aboriginal Australians (ideas of dreaming or dream time is a way of story telling)

  • Historians are a discipline of European learning.

    • Think they can understand arts of the world better than the people who actually live in that part of the world

  • Australia had humans since 40,000-60,000 years ago

  • Mungo was a pile of charred bones discovered in 1968

    • Australians protested then the architects took it back

    • The archeologist took the bodies without asking

    • She reveals how deep aboriginal history is

    • The Aboriginal people kept saying they've been here forever, but mungo lady confirmed it

  • Mungo Man was a similar story, taken in 1974, then returned in 2017

  • australians knew about agriculture but just did not want to settle down

    • instead they used plants, harvested, and stored foods in a manner that belies the usual way of hunters and gatherers

  • The great divide pf 1788

    • the europeans start taking the land the australians were not using

    • The asutralians have been disadvantaged because they do not fit into history

  • Aboorgibal people did firestick farming

    • managemnt of land to where yoy control what plants grow in each place

    • buen the vegetation at specific times to produce ash that fertilizes and to allow the penetration of light to seedlings

    • it ensures diversity of vegetation and grasslands for animals to feed on

    • uses fire to manage their landscape

  • GIant kangaroos?

    • They wente extivt a long time ago but are still present in the aboriginal people stories

  • These stories are about shallow time. Really just oral stories in the moment

  • Oral cultures memorize a lot of info by encoding knowledge in ritual song, dance, story and place.

  • Aborgibal people anchor their memory alot through the landscape like how dreamtime is passed down

    • The walkout is a series of rituals to conect spiritiually with his ancestors following the physical marks/footprints left on the land. It is peformed by young men to secure the knowledge neccesary for an adult to take place in society

  • Story of Lungkata

    • As he went towards Uluru he burned everything down.

    • Look at more of the story on the powerpoin or look it up

    • moral of the story is dont be greedy and dishonest ans steal

  • The stories on the landscape also helped people navigate

  • What can we learn from dreamtime

    • it emphasizes enviroment

    • shows man has the power to change the natural word but it in change changes me/ relationsgip between man and nature

    • we get the idea that we can think about time different and how western timelines can be challenfed

    • it gives a sense a history to where continuity that you can fold past and present into eachother