ABORIGINAL PEOPLE FORMED one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world when they first arrived in Australia. The way they adapted to our country's challenging conditions is a testament to Aussie inventiveness.
It was once a widely-held belief in Australia that before contact, Aboriginal culture stood still. But forming the kinds of agricultural societies typical of English settlers just wasn't the right strategy to endure Australia's harsh conditions. Even with imported English technology, agriculture was a precarious business in Australia.
"Diversification was the key to surviving in such a diverse landscape," says Lyndon Ormond-Parker, a research fellow from the indigenous studies unit at the University of Melbourne. "Certainly, when it came to social complexity, Australia was just as diverse as Europe. This was a constantly changing, fifty-thousand-year-old civilisation with over 500 different cultures and languages."
Aboriginal people made a powerful thermoplastic resin from porcupine grass and grass trees. They beat the resin out of the grass, then cleaned it and heated it over fire to create a sticky black substance. The resulting resin hardened as it cooled and was strong enough to bind rock to wood. This resin was used to create tools such as spears, woomeras and axes.
Christopher Allen
Aboriginal people demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of engineering, physics and aquaculture in the design of elaborate stone fish traps in NSW, and the 100 sq.km eel farm at Lake Condah in Victoria. They made these fish farms by creating complex systems of canals, linked weirs and ponds out of river stones. Lake Condah shows evidence of a very large, settled community that harvested and smoked eels to trade. Some of Australia's Aboriginal fish traps are thought to be up to 40,000 years old. They may be some of the oldest surviving human-made structures in the world.
Levi Ortiz
Lol. I loved at the end of the Interesting Things Explained Well podcast on the Bronze Age when he's giving a quick rundown on when various cultures around the world came up with bronze or iron, and gets to the Abbos and says something like, "Anthropologists believe aborigines never came up with smelting or even pottery since nearly all their free time was spent laying down hot riffs on the didgeridoo."
Lincoln Jackson
It's still debated whether Tasmanian Aboriginals even discovered fire
Isaiah Miller
came to post this, they never even tied a rock to a stick. they also lived in the most godforsaken area of Australia rather than on the coasts where there is fishing and arable land.
Juan Brown
They are the only group of people in the world who didn't even invent or use bow and arrows.
Angel Wilson
>we invented spears
Liam Phillips
>we stacked rocks
Jayden Cook
They did but then the sea rose and tasmania became isolated from the mainland. The population plummeted beneath what's required for a functioning society and technology was lost because it stopped being passed down from generation to generation. When whites got there they had no fire.
Brandon Scott
Hol up so you be sayin dat we wuz kangz?
Jason Ramirez
The sparks from their bonfires were so powerful that they can reach outer space. John Glenn, US astronaut, confirmed this. It's in the Tom Wolfe documentary called "Do The Wright Stuff"
Colton Cook
They were the first fauna on the planet to develop fluid catalytic cracking. However, it was not for industrial purposes, it was for huffing.
>one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world Until the great Drop Bear war left them without their best and brightest. Never Forget.
Alexander Bailey
Abbos are the worst indigenous population in the history of the Earth. They're a mix of everything wrong with every other indigenous culture.
Somewhere along the line a full blooded native american fucked a full blooded African tribal man or monkey and gave birth to twins, a male and a female. Upon seeing such a deformed creature it was sent out to see to die, as to not warp the earth from its burial. It then washed up on Australia where it immediately ate eucalyptus and hallucinated the "dream time" before fucking each other and having more offspring.
Daniel Turner
sea* what a dumb thing to fuck up
Leo Howard
When the first settlers arrived in Sydney, they found fields of open grass that seemed ideal for farming sheep. They didn't know that Aboriginal people made and actively maintained these fields through a form of controlled burning called 'firestick farming'. Aboriginal firestick farming was incredibly precise. They could aim the fires in a specific direction to clear tracks through the bush or create open parklands.
Firestick farming flushed out animals that could be killed immediately for food. New grasses grew in the burned off areas, creating ideal conditions for game animals such as wallabies, and encouraging low-growing food plants to grow. Some Aboriginal people have warned that low intensity burning is necessary to prevent more serious fires in Australia.
Chase Torres
A quick bit of Indigenous ingenuity for you OP.
I worked in Katherine a few years ago, which is a town outside of Darwin in NT. High population of Indigenous there. The local council had decided that it was only right for the forestry department to bring on Aboriginal bushman as "contractors" because they apparently "knew the land" better than the rangers who had worked there for 15+ years.
In the first few months there was the usual back patting and circle jerk about how progressive this was and a bunch of politicians rotated through the town to get their photo taken with these amazing bushman and their technologically advanced ways of agricultural maintenance. Everything was all fine and dandy until the abbos decided to demonstrate how their ancestors used to hunt.
This involved setting fire to large swaths of bush land in order to drive out kangaroos and other game which were then speared (shot off camera) and cooked in a traditional way. The only problem was the "bushman" who were doing this wern't even full blooded abbos, and were products of the petrol sniffing generations that had subsisted entirely off government money. The bush they had set on fire had been neglected for too many years and this was in peak dry season. The fire quickly went out of control and parts of the town had to be evacuated in fear of the fire claiming peoples homes.
Sure, the primitive barbarian can be romanticized in hindsight, but there's a reason we all call it Australia; it's the name the British gave to it when they occupied this country and thoroughly conquered the natives, who for the past 50 thousand years, had sat on ass in a resource rich country and hadn't even discovered the wheel.
Hunter Hill
kys idiot
Jeremiah Robinson
So why did they get almost eradicated?
Nicholas Garcia
They also raped their children and encouraged sons to eat semen and kill their siblings. So diverse! So vibrant!
Aboriginal adults made rattles, dolls, spinning tops, and balls for their children to play with, as well as small-scale, harmless models of tools and weapons. Children made toy propellers out of strips of long leaves, which they launched into the air in throwing competitions.
In North Queensland, Aboriginal men played a game using spinning tops made from a rainforest gourd, beeswax, bark fibre and hardwood. It's likely that skill at construction as well as spinning was a source of rivalry in these
Samuel Harris
this thread is retarded. as if abbos ever did anything logically, or cared for the environment and thought of the future. they are arguably the single dumbest and most retarded native species on the planet.
But if they were that far advanced, why are they backwards now?
Jordan Allen
Yes I know they did on the mainland. I'm talking about Tasmania
Nathan Carter
Colonisation
Grayson Phillips
lmao reality comes at you fast
Jacob Foster
> This was a constantly changing, fifty-thousand-year-old civilisation with over 500 different cultures and languages spat out like that's a good thing. You need to standardise your language to SOME degree if you're ever going to organise and get some civilization off the ground
And bullshit on 500 different cultures, there's only so many meaningful ways primitive tribes can vary from each other in any significant manner.
Asher Carter
Look, can you at least try to say something impressive? I don't care if you have to bullshit, but fucking dolls, really?
Easton Gomez
>Aboriginal men played a game using spinning tops made from a rainforest gourd, beeswax, bark fibre and hardwood. It's likely that skill at construction as well as spinning was a source of rivalry in these
tl;dr Abos made Beyblades
Jaxson Martinez
>Sure, the primitive barbarian can be romanticized in hindsight, but there's a reason we all call it Australia; it's the name the British gave to it when they occupied this country and thoroughly conquered the natives, who for the past 50 thousand years, had sat on ass in a resource rich country and hadn't even discovered the wheel.
Damn. Well said.
David Cooper
Aboriginal stone tools were highly sophisticated in their range and uses. Stone and natural glass were fashioned into chisels, saws, knifes, axes and spearheads. Stone tools were used for hunting, carrying food, for making ochre, nets, clothing, baskets and more. Aboriginal people are thought to be one of the first to use stone tools to grind seeds, and the first to create ground edges on stone tools. They could grind a precision edge from stone that was as sharp as any metal blade found in England in 1788.
Adam Diaz
Literally the missing link
Elijah Phillips
KANGZ!
Evan Hill
No, that would only explain them picking up the culture and technology of the arriving peoples.
Mine is a different question. If by "advanced" you mean that their mud huts had basements, OK, but if you're really talking advanced, there would have to have been a major decline in their technology. Colonization wouldn't do that.
So in all that time they invented resin and you're amazed by that but not amazed by the construction of complicated ships it took for the future Aussies who settled the land..............
Austin Morgan
What about the sexual abuse and onanism?
I don't really care if abbos make tools , because they only use them to murder their relatives and sodomize their children
Camden Green
I've been saying this for a long time here... they have reached the apex of human acievment and let it all go .. they have transcended to a plane of spiritual development which does not need material technological support any longer... they have much to teach if we will but listen.. the petrol swilling and road sleeping are object lessons to you.. LISTEN!!!
No proof. Plus why would they make toys and do nice things for their kids then eat and rape them? Make no sense
Andrew Green
>They had primitive tools but they were REALLY GOOD primitive tools
Cameron Ross
On a side note how many fucking times can that Lyndon fellow use the word "diversity" hahahahah. >just as diverse as Europe >"diversification" (whatever the fuck that means?) was the key to surviving in such a diverse (kek) landscape >gets BTFO by a few Aussie shitposting castaway prisoners
Nathaniel Moore
To cut up baby dicks while suffering alcohol withdrawal
Nathaniel Davis
The Hittite empire had iron tools and chariots as early as 18th century BC, stones don't impress me.
Jack Walker
Bach's 3rd didgeridoo concerto
Angel Clark
>as any metal blade found in England in 1788. 1788 is not when Europeans started forging blades
Joshua Flores
So the fact it's insane and evil is really your only rebuttal?
Nigger, you have made numerous claims with no proof and now you have the gall to start asking for proof.
Ethan Cruz
>average IQ of 62 Hey, we found someone even dumber than africans
Blake Flores
The didgeridoo, traditionally played by men in ceremony, is a purely Aboriginal invention and is thought to be the world's oldest wind instrument. The didgeridoo is deceptively simple in design but is, in fact, a complicated instrument. A termite-hollowed didgeridoo tends to be wider in diameter at the bottom than the top, which creates unusual resonant frequencies. The vocalisations and circular breathing technique required to play it initiate sound wave interactions between the players' lips and vocal tract, and within the instrument itself. This creates the didgeridoo's distinctive sound.
Ethan Fisher
Are we supposed to be impressed that they entered the Stone Age and never left it? What about the civilizations that did?
Robert Gonzalez
>Abos can blow into tubes Incredible.
Mason Murphy
God dammit I fucking hate the digeridoo all the retarded hippie morons blow those fucking buzz horns all over my campus.
> thought to be the world's oldest wind instrument.
Dude, you aren't even trying anymore. Flutes have been around since pre-historic times, and they even have cave paintings of them.
Lucas Garcia
Who wrote the history?
Aaron Ramirez
They all left in their Mabo spaceships when whitey arrived
Ryan Thomas
They even had toe callous deep friers, for proto chicharones.
Liam Flores
Your tryhard vocabulary only makes the Abos look worse. All of this descriptive language for the one instrument they ever "invented" (picked up off the ground)
Ryan Williams
Look at this guy, couldn't be happier in his indigenous pool. Leave abbos alone.
To make the link between the Denisovans and indigenous Australians, the study looked at two Aboriginal populations, one of which was from the Northern Territory. The researchers concluded that Denisovans interbred with modern humans in South-East Asia 44,000 years ago, before Australia separated from Papua New Guinea.
"This paper helped fill in some empty pieces in the evolutionary puzzle that began after early humans left Africa, and reinforces the view that humans have intermixed throughout history," say the scientists behind the research in a summary of the findings.
Oliver Phillips
So they are less evolved than SE Asians then
Joshua Evans
No.
The boomerang's distinctive sound and remarkable return flight has made it famous throughout the world. Other cultures invented throwing sticks with controllable motion and spin, but the boomerang was a purely Aboriginal invention. The angled shape with asymmetrical curves makes use of one of the most complicated principles of aerodynamics: asymmetrical lift.
Connor Miller
So you're saying that abos are literally the missing link. Good job proving our point, fucktard.
Anthony Turner
Pretty much every society that made spears, or any stone tools during their stone age, had to find a way to bind the rocks to the sticks. It's not much of a discovery to see that "this grass sticky, me use sticky stuff to stick things together."
Oh wow it's so sophisticated to make walls of rocks in the water to trick dumb fish.
Still only stone age technology. They only got to the level of manipulating sticks and rocks to control the environment around them, that's pretty far behind what other societies have achieved. I'm willing to wager that if left uncontacted they would still be fucking around with sticks and rocks, and burning down entire forests to eat the cooked animals (research firestick farming). Meanwhile the white race put a living man on another celestial body.
Noah Cooper
All those abo physicists making aerodynamic calculations about thrust and lift
Wyatt Johnson
History is non-linear.
Caleb Sanders
Grug not happy you minimize his achievement with sticky grass
>traditionally played by men in ceremony So didgeridoos are cemented in patriarchy Ban this offensive tool
Andrew Barnes
Master... Teach me the way of the shitpost.
Jayden Morales
No wheel No bow and arrow No fucking clue
Michael Nguyen
They were smart:
Aboriginal Australians are the world's oldest astronomers. Aboriginal peoples have passed down astronomical knowledge for generations. Astronomy was used by indigenous Australians to develop calendars and navigate the land. Each hunter-gatherer tribe lived according to an annual cycle, which informed what they ate and hunted and where they travelled.
Kayden King
hehehehehe
Asher Howard
>I'm willing to wager that if left uncontacted they would still be fucking around with sticks and rocks obviously. you only get real progress through knowledge and you dont get that unless you explore.
Camden Gutierrez
Are these posts ironic or are you posting this pasta here to get marks towards your uni degree
>amazed at spears >not amazed at the computer he posted his moronic comment on
Bentley Baker
What is your beef with Aboriginals? Have you a problem in the past or something? Elaborate
Matthew Perez
Literally every culture on earth was doing that since before 5000 BC
Andrew Nguyen
Aren't aboriginals the ones who would split open a child's penis and then fuck the wound? I remember reading some sort of anthropology paper about that. Sick fucks. All sorts of primitive cultures around the world regularly sexually abused their own children. But of course those facts are swept away to make them all noble savages rather than just regular savages.
Connor Morgan
Even if they did all these things, look at them now. Completely useless... Never met a single one that could considered intelligent. I'm still waiting to this day for them to prove their worth... We should of killed them all while we had the chance.
Tyler Gonzalez
Why are you so insistent on sucking off dirty abos who would only ask you for metho and cigarettes if you met one irl?
I have a problem with you and your fellow pseudo intellectuals attempting to rewrite the past
Aiden Baker
When do you get to the part where they huff gasoline?
Ian Wilson
...
Carter Adams
And they huffed it so much that Australia had to invent an unhuffable gasoline. Now they just drink it
Nathaniel Anderson
Looks pretty white to me
Hunter Thompson
>Be Abo's >Arrive in Australia >Lush with forests everywhere >Discover fire one day by accident >"Oooggaaa bogggaaaa I have a plan so we never have to hunt again" >Set fire to bushland all over Australia >Make numerous amazing species of animals go extinct >Turn most of Australia except the coastal regions into a desert. >"GUYS THEY WERE TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED"
Fuck off you shill faggot.
Dylan Gutierrez
Is there no abo less heavily-watered down to show off? Pic related
Not that I'm proud to play this card but she is white, at least in the sense that she doesn't have colored skin or aboriginal facial features. Being only 25% aboriginal doesn't prove aboriginal intelligent. 1 person doesnt represent the other 99% of unintelligent aboriginals.
