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Title: First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians
Author: CANE SCOTT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2013
Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia’s northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Australia’s first inhabitants were the first people to believe in an afterlife, cremate their dead, engrave representations of the human face, and depict human sound and emotion. They created new technologies, designed ornamentation, engaged in trade, and crafted the earliest documents of war. Ultimately, they developed a sustainable society based on shared religious tradition and far-reaching social networks across the length and breadth of Australia. First Footprints chronicles this using astonishing archaeological discoveries, ancient oral histories and the largest and oldest art galleries on earth.
ISBN: 9781743314937
Dimension: 245mm X 172mm
Pages: 336