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What is the significance of sacred sites for Ancient Aboriginal cultures?
Allows people to maintain an attachment to cultural history, stories, and to country
What has remained the same from Ancient Aboriginal culture?
Sacred sites and locations, totems, art, connection to land, sharing stories
What are some changes from Ancient Aboriginal culture?
Land ownership, languages, westernised living
The age of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady are contested (different opinions), why is this a challenge for historians?
Because it proves that their findings can be contested and changes what they know about when first people migrated from Africa
Why did archaeologists believe people originated from Africa?
From fossils and remains that were discovered
Who was the oldest known cremation?
Mungo Lady
How long did Megafauna & Homo Sapiens co-exist?
At least 30,000 years
When did Megafauna roam the earth?
2.5 million - 11, 700 years ago - During the Ice Age
What is Megafauna?
Ancient giant animals
What does CE and BCE mean?
Common Era and Before Common Era
What are the two (2) periods of time on a timeline?
BCE & BC
What is Chronology?
The measurement of time and arranging events in order in which they occured.
What do we need to be able to tell if the source is reliable?
A context statement - telling us the "who, what, when, where and why"
What is the origin and purpose of a source?
The "What, who, when, where and why" of a source
What is a context statement?
Information about the source provided - tells us the origin, purpose and reliability
What is a Primary Source?
An artefact or source FROM the time that is being studied
What is contestability?
Different interpretations and conclusions that are made about historical events - different perspectives
The first people left Africa and migrated to different places - why did they leave?
Climate change and lack of resources - so they could survive
What evidence to archaeologists need to make a decision about the past?
bones, fossils, building remains, pottery, jewellery, weapons tools - artefacts
What are homo-sapiens?
What we know today as "humans"
What is an Archaeologist?
Someone who studies ancient history through "digging up" sites
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